Terrible Quotes
2708 Terrible quotes by 1872 unique authors
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I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I…
— Anzia Yezierska
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If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in…
— Joe Rogan
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
— Karl Kraus
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I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it…
— Unknown Author
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It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs…
— Charles Addams
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George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would…
— Gabe Newell
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I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always…
— Og Mandino
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It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
— Jose Marti
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It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.
— John Keegan
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I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he…
— Al Franken
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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
— Carly Simon
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Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart…
— PZ Myers
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The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
— Robert Falcon Scott
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I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was…
— John Sculley
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Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.
— Wilder Penfield
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The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests in…
— Ernst Haeckel
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I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into…
— Steven Weinberg
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety…
— Siri Hustvedt
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And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left…
— Frederick Buechner
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The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's…
— Carl Safina
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I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
— Dawn Fraser
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When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what…
— Frederic Bastiat
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We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of…
— Dario Fo
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No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure,…
— Joseph Campbell
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