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I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been… — C.S. Lewis
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did… — Andy Rooney
The person... in the grip of an old distress says things that are not pertinent, does things that don't work, fails to cope with the… — Harvey Jackins
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. . — Bill Vaughan
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds… — Emma Goldman
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with. — Euripides
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls… — John Quincy Adams
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty. — Raymond Chandler
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's… — Jeff VanderMeer
I have a lot of respect for President Obama. I consider him a friend. I disagree with him on issues like the extension of tax… — Bernie Sanders
I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano… — Michael Feinstein
I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and… — Chaka Khan
I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start. — Courteney Cox
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude.… — Paul Auster
No matter how much you love someone, on a bad day, you could say something terrible. All of the little things that you are saving… — Judd Apatow
Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion… — Gloria Steinem
My dad was a terrible businessman. — Al Franken
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. — Stephen Fry
I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I… — Janeane Garofalo
Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority. — Bill Gates
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out,… — Martha Gellhorn
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. — Alberto Giacometti
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor!… — William Gibson

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