Terrible Quotes
2708 Terrible quotes by 1872 unique authors
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Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave…
— Simon Hoggart
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How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live…
— Gerald Vann
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When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him…
— Jon Krakauer
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Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather…
— Paul Bailey
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If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
— Sophocles
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The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps to massively reduce…
— David Suzuki
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Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that…
— Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
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Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.
— Phyllis McGinley
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He…
— Fay Wray
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Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People…
— Jonathan Ross
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We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared…
— H. Rider Haggard
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Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and…
— Robert Falcon Scott
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I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
— Peter Kay
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Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is…
— Peter York
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Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
— Robert Breault
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
— Bill Hybels
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I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that…
— Fran Drescher
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But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
— Patrick Rothfuss
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The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in…
— Stephen King
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She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been…
— Edward Rutherfurd
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After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They…
— Chris Priestley
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I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else.
— Dave Barry
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It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It…
— Naomi Klein
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It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly…
— Isadora Duncan
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It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
— Jimmy Carter
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