Terrible Quotes

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Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction we… — Unknown Author
The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive.… — Heinrich Heine
Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism. — Sextus Empiricus
Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible. — Kim Carnes
It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But… — Sparky Anderson
People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great. — James D. Watson
An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing. — Ross Macdonald
I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility. — Paula Poundstone
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. — Lois Lowry
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. — Fran Lebowitz
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. — Mick Jagger
I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other. — Barbara Pym
Following the enormous conjecture in the press, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct… — Freddie Mercury
But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are.… — Jeff Bezos
If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need… — Nolan Bushnell
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. — Edward Kennedy
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge… — Abraham Lincoln
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined… — John Coleman
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being… — Parker J. Palmer
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible. — Abraham Lincoln
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! — William Tecumseh Sherman
Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your… — Og Mandino
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the… — Lewis B. Smedes

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