Terrible Quotes

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There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. — Cleveland Amory
I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi. — Gordon Getty
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! — William Shakespeare
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. — Thomas Browne
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today,… — Robertson Davies
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the… — Anna Akhmatova
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look… — Christopher Columbus
This is a terrible mistake, because I used up all of my English. — Roberto Benigni
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is… — Nelson Mandela
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged… — Peter London
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at… — Han Suyin
The Way of the Warrior has been misunderstood. It is not a means to kill and destroy others. Those who seek to compete and better… — Morihei Ueshiba
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and… — Judd Apatow
All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children,… — Elizabeth McCracken
Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an… — T.H. White
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are... — Adam Rex
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility. — Ernest Becker
A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides… — Joseph Sobran
When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations… — Benoit Mandelbrot
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life, — Gene Robinson
Golf is a terrible, hopeless addiction, it seems: it makes its devotees willing to trudge miles in any manner of weather, lugging a huge, incommodious… — Mike Seabrook
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease. — Imogen Cunningham
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a… — Peter Gay

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