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I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as… — Aldous Huxley
And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how. — Holly Black
Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story… — Unknown Author
Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this… — Riccardo Muti
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous… — J I Packer
The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you. — Paul Washer
I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit. — Richard Branson
There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it;… — Aleister Crowley
I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible… — Jessica Lynch
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I… — Pat Conroy
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander… — Natalie Goldberg
In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off… — Jon Meacham
For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation… — Jean-Marie Le Pen
It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the… — Thomas A. Edison
If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's… — Michael Bloomberg
The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings. — Stefan Zweig
It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory. — Arthur Schnitzler
The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my… — Margaret Thatcher
An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible! — Richard P. Feynman
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected. — Wolfgang Pauli
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that… — Howard Barker
How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface. — Jenny Valentine

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