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Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible,… — Mary Lee Settle
We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering… — Ron Kovic
But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be… — J D Salinger
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves. — Hesiod
Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with… — Margaret Thatcher
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years,… — Ronald Reagan
The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle. — Sivananda
Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret. — Richard Dawkins
X-Pac, I feel terrible that you have to come out here and defend the integrity of a woman who has absolutely none. I mean as… — Chris Jericho
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was… — Oscar Wilde
There is a power in names. Olakunde told us of ashe-the power which runs through all things, subtle and flexible, which find its most potent… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they… — James Crumley
I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not. — Richard Griffiths
The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong. — Rabindranath Tagore
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I… — Taki Theodoracopulos
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. — George Bernard Shaw
The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,… — John Dryden
It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we… — Casey Stoner
I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would… — William Shakespeare

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