Terrible Quotes
2708 Terrible quotes by 1872 unique authors
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The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I was in a love that was wonderful until it was terrible, and both people got hurt from it.
— Taylor Swift
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The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it…
— Swami Vivekananda
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
— Virginia Woolf
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The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway…
— Ram Dass
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Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it…
— Elizabeth Warren
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The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.
— Nelson Mandela
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what…
— Walker Evans
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Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war. It’s a commitment to living with a certain kind of vulnerability to others and…
— Judith Butler
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He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer at the terrible judgment-seat of…
— John of Kronstadt
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God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
— Chanakya
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When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat…
— E.C. Riegel
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Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.
— Mark Spitz
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When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though…
— Leo Kottke
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It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share.…
— Pema Chodron
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There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put…
— Elizabeth Berg
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And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition,…
— Barack Obama
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's…
— Olivia Williams
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How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise
— Sophocles
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
— Aristotle
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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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