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196 Terrible Thing quotes by 166 unique authors

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. — Erica Jong
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. — Helen Keller
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter… — Denis Leary
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask… — Katherine Mansfield
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be… — Arthur Miller
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author… — Terry Pratchett
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. — Dan Quayle
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. — Martin Scorsese
Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing. — Andre Leon Talley
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of… — Leo Tolstoy
The waist is a terrible thing to mind. — Tom Wilson
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from… — Radclyffe Hall
I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman. — Richard Russo
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the… — Victor Hugo
I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there… — Neil Gaiman
Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to… — Libba Bray
To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. — Soren Kierkegaard
And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it… — William Goldman
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. — Alice Walker
I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors… — Ray Bradbury
It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it… — Theodore Dreiser
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny. — Brandon Sanderson

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