Terrible Quotes
2708 Terrible quotes by 1872 unique authors
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Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are…
— Euripides
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Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place…
— Ernest Hello
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Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and…
— Catherine of Genoa
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During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God-…
— Elizabeth of the Trinity
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White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.
— Joan Mitchell
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Interest is a terrible thing to waste.
— Roger Schank
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This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.
— Robert Hayden
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Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul,…
— Harold Urey
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It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal,…
— H. A. L. Fisher
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For a time, it would work well. then it worked less and my pain was more. I would go through wild bouts of depression, horrible…
— Channing Tatum
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Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.
— Unknown Author
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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people…
— Mother Teresa
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I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices…
— Virginia Woolf
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The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.
— Jeffery Taylor
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It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible…
— Robert Solow
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I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never…
— Paul McCartney
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The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity…
— Robin Williams
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR,…
— Nellie Bly
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...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...
— Al Gore
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It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout…
— Tony Blair
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Military strikes on Afghanistan will not prevent something this terrible from happening again, for the simple reason that bombs will not deter people who are…
— Jemima Khan
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments…
— Greil Marcus
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