Terrible Quotes

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I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake. — Donald Sterling
I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words. — Donald Sterling
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them… — Gore Vidal
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for… — Malcolm Muggeridge
All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States… — Helena Rubinstein
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they… — Plato
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. — Sophocles
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. — Sophocles
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. — Plato
His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while… — Christer Kihlman
I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much. — William Kittredge
The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another. — Timothy Keller
Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood. — Luis Alberto Urrea
I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes… — David Loy
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day).… — Binyavanga Wainaina
No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he… — Thomas Merton
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the… — Pat Robertson
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live… — Jean Anouilh
What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches. — John F. Kennedy
Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. — Charlie Munger
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… — Christopher Hitchens
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as… — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible… — Peggy Lee
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in… — Libba Bray

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