Terrible Quotes · Page 40

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

— Richard J. Foster

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

— Dawn Fraser

For those who are so courageously battling these terrible diseases, the least we can do is not stand in their way.

— Mike Braun

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a…

— Richard Simmons

“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible,…

— Plato

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

— Epicurus

You can't make up Timothee Chalamet to look, say, 40. That would be terrible!

— James Ivory

The terrible trade deals that Bernie [Sanders] was so vehemently against - and he was right on that - will be taken…

— Donald Trump

What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up…

— Barry McCaffrey

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Slavery was incredibly prosperous for some people, at that time. It was not a bad business plan, but it was terrible and…

— Chuck D

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is…

— George Sterling

I don't believe in binational states. There are wonderful examples of this, prosperous multinational states: Switzerland, Switzerland and Switzerland. Everywhere else -…

— Amos Oz

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much…

— Chloe Sevigny

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe…

— Anonymous

My life has been devoted to trying to bring a little more understanding to human sexuality - not just in society, but…

— Hugh Hefner

I woke up one morning, and I couldn't move my arm. It was the oddest thing, the paralysis. I called up a…

— Doris Lessing

The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we…

— Caitlin Moran

He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw…

— J.R. Ward

On our swim team, they had something called the 'developmental meet.' I didn't know it was a meet only for the worst…

— Jeff Kinney

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is…

— William Gibson

“As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined,…

— Edward Bellamy

The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

— David Attenborough

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

— Mick Jagger

Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.

— Sissy Spacek

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she…

— Joseph Epstein

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.

— Robert Webb

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to…

— Jack Welch

When 'Rendezvous' went on air, it got terrible reviews. Later, it became a benchmark for the other shows. Lots of people tried…

— Simi Garewal

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

— Lois Lowry

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions…

— Han Suyin

We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record…

— Elizabeth May

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.

— Eli Wallach

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible…

— Russell Baker

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

— Millicent Fenwick

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

— H. P. Lovecraft