Terrible things Quotes · Page 5

“The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.”

— John le Carré

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

— Cecil B. DeMille

“He hated sounding guilty. Terrible things always followed.”

— Mel Odom

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

— Barbara Pym

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.

— James Herriot

“People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons. “What’s”

— Lauren Oliver

There are some people who say and do terrible things and they are not even punished for it.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,

— Hypatia

It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we…

— Pema Chodron

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started…

— Terry Pratchett

I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my…

— Steve Martin

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek…

— Jim Butcher

And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object…

— Vera Nazarian

In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often…

— Katherine Schwarzenegger

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons

— Ron Paul

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you…

— James Frey

I signed the pledge. I have been very good. I have been very straight and honest and honorable. And they're not treating…

— Donald Trump

We’ve got to stick together, that’s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I don’t want to…

— John Marsden

The terrible thing about being blacklisted as an actress was that even though, intellectually, you knew what was happening, you still always…

— Kim Hunter

Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air…

— Ian O'Doherty

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose…

— Margaret Cho

Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow…

— Oscar Wilde

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about…

— Tom Lenk

Anybody who is capable of doing terrible things, you don't want them out in the world, but you can't help but respect…

— Bryan Fuller

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

— Phyllis Bottome

“I have experienced many terrible things in my life, and some of them have actually happened.”

— Elizabeth Helen Ivory

Kangaroos are crazy and can do all sorts of terrible things.

— Nadine Coyle

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

— Pramila Jayapal

A thousand ways to make it true, I want to do terrible things to you.

— Nine Inch Nails

“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love.”

— Cassandra Clare

“It is that love can make the most terrible things acceptable.”

— Jade Lee

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...

— Adam Rex

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

— E. A. Bucchianeri

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

— Dawn Fraser

“People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.”

— Josh Lanyon

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

— Andrew Fastow

The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea

— Cassandra Clare

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

— Dorothy Parker

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

— Sarah Paulson

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

— Eve Bunting