Terrible Quotes

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Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him. — Woody Allen
Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully. — Woody Allen
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched. — Victor Hugo
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when… — Victor Hugo
I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way… — Gwyneth Paltrow
A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill. — Thomas Carlyle
To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression… — Charles Kuralt
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And… — George Eliot
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids… — Kajol
When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably… — Richard E. Grant
Terrible is the temptation to be good. — Bertolt Brecht
Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it… — Kurt Vonnegut
It's a terrible poison, writing. — A. S. Byatt
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes? — Albert Einstein
There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there… — George Orwell
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… — William McFee
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion! — William McFee
What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchange of smiles with Beauty and… — Helen Keller
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery! — Enid Bagnold
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are… — George Washington
I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible. — Geraldine Ferraro
Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it. — Sophocles
A death is the most terrible of facts. — Iris Murdoch

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