Terrible Quotes

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Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible. — Alice Herz-Sommer
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads… — Bill Joy
I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again. — Chuck Close
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress. — Fay Vincent
To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial. — Wendell Berry
I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks… — Vincent Van Gogh
Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that… — Kobe Bryant
I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the… — Gunter Grass
Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands… — Karl Popper
People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life.… — Amy Tan
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy. — Helen Clark
In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. — William Standish Knowles
Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man… — Elias Canetti
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. — Isabel Allende
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. — Leonard Woolf
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. — Cleopatra
I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness… — Maya Angelou
For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us… — David Brin
The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole… — Stephen Mitchell
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And… — Barbara Kingsolver
I was a terrible English student. — Leon Uris
Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music! — Alice Herz-Sommer
Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting on a 'whim'. If only… — Michael Leunig
Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be… — Cloris Leachman
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to… — William Barclay

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