Terrible Quotes
2708 Terrible quotes by 1872 unique authors
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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know,…
— Arundhati Roy
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Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and…
— Winston Churchill
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Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's…
— Frederick Buechner
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The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.
— Unknown Author
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Nothing is terrible except fear itself.
— Francis Bacon
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Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?
— Tommy Rettig
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and…
— Katharine Hepburn
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It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find…
— Joan Robinson
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Twelve million children in the United States face hunger every day. Bringing an end to this terrible situation is a passion I share with my…
— Kathy Ireland
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Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were…
— Margot Kidder
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We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster. But tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or a burning…
— Joey Comeau
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As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I…
— Robin Gibb
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Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even…
— Daniel Handler
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Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second…
— Jerry Coleman
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If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that…
— Adriana Trigiani
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I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought…
— Eliza Lynn Linton
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The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak,
— Jared Cohen
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I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon…
— George Frisbie Hoar
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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.
— Janet Malcolm
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of…
— John Cowper Powys
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of…
— Dana Spiotta
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Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.
— Gary Lutz
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We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into…
— Ellen Gilchrist
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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their…
— Mark Lawrence
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