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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making… — Nora Ephron
My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't — Joseph Epstein
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was… — Dani Shapiro
As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you… — Joyce Maynard
I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely… — Tre Cool
The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and… — Caroline Knapp
There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace — Bernard Hinault
God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my… — Anatole France
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays… — John Crowe Ransom
He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert… — Alexander Murdoch Mackay
I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round… — Teresa of Avila
To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches… — John Austin Baker
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate… — William Shakespeare
I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's… — Walter Mosley
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear! — Nigel Dennis
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. — Polly Toynbee
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing, — Hypatia
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. — Marie Bashkirtseff
I see danger—awake! It's terrible, it's horrible, and it's almost here! This is why my spirit was sent to earth. This is the job God… — Frank Bruno
How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well,… — Jonathan Ames
Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to… — Jada Pinkett Smith
Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit… — Stuart Neville
The trouble is, I'm a terrible PR person, — Peter Molyneux

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