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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
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
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
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
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright. — Sophocles
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
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
Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps. — Phyllis McGinley
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
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
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
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
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. — Peter Kay
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
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
The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop. — Bill Hybels
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
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough? — Patrick Rothfuss
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
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
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
I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody else. — Dave Barry
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
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
It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us. — Jimmy Carter

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