Terrible Quotes

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Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make… — Eric Maisel
I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a… — Ransom Riggs
War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly.… — Walter Cronkite
Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to… — David Letterman
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the… — Orson Welles
You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing… — Orson Welles
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy… — Theodore Roosevelt
Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God? — Dylan Thomas
The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what… — Steve Jobs
Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man,… — H P Lovecraft
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf. — Arnold Palmer
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever. — William Osler
I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we… — Will Rogers
I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside. — James Herriot
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man… — Rachel Carson
And the thing about my jokes is, they don't hurt anybody. You can take 'em or leave 'em - you can say they're funny or… — Will Rogers
War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a… — Kenneth Kaunda
My feelings about myself have been terrible. — Alvin Ailey
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The… — Theodore Roosevelt
Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All… — Arno C. Gaebelein
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the… — Louis D. Brandeis
In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out… — Katherine Schwarzenegger
To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To… — Frederick Lenz
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything… — Frederick Lenz

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