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Terrible Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep…
- This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .…
- I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to…
- To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one…
- A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.
- The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against…
More Terrible Quotes
- 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
- There is something great and terrible about suicide. — Honore de Balzac
- I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got… — David Bailey
- I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. — David Bailey
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused… — Amy Adams
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do… — Christian Bale
- Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and… — Alan Ball
- A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has… — Honore de Balzac
- Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. — P T Barnum
- Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing! — P T Barnum