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Quotes About Terrible

I get terrible reviews, but there are people who like to see me in the movies, I guess.
~ Sandra Dee
I learned that Chicago lunches are terrible. If I was a Chicago student, I would ask my mom to pack a lunch.
~ Mike Quigley
Pakistan has done some really terrible things, and yet they also have facilitated our military capabilities in ways that are critical to our country.
~ Trent Franks
It was hard to imagine that anything terrible could happen on such a fine spring evening, but the activity around the little terrace house in Armley indicated that evil made no allowances for the weather.
~ Peter Robinson
Meek-eyed parents hasten down the rampsTo greet their offspring, terrible from camps.
~ Phyllis McGinley
What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way.
~ Tobin Bell
A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.
~ Gloria Steinem
Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
~ Iris Apfel
I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.
~ Clive Barker
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.
~ Jon Krakauer
The only way to make beauty ugly is to show it's crazy. Like twisting the top off a jar of something wonderful to eat, the moment he's hit by the terrible smell of it gone bad, even the hungriest person will drop the jar in the trash without a second thought.
~ Jonathan Carroll
I suspect that art has always had a particularly tenuous purchase on the American imagination because ours is a country to which so few terrible things have ever happened.
~ Jonathan Franzen
And meanwhile everybody's wondering what this old woman with half her face drooping onto her shoulder is doing bagging their groceries. You have no idea how I envy you your cubicle. The invisibility of it. Let's not romanticize the cubicle, Pip said. This is the terrible thing about bodies. They're so visible, so visible.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
You are very funny Jonathan. No. That is the last thing I want to be. Why? To be funny is a great thing. No it's not. Why is this? I used to thing that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. You know what I mean? Yes of course. But now I think it's the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.
~ Jorge Amado
There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Retold, my dream is nothing; dreamt, it was terrible.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La creencia en ell Zahir es islámica...Zahir en árabe, quiere decir notorio, visible; en tal sentido, es uno de los noventa y nueve nombres de Dios; la plebe, en tierras musulmanas, lo dice de los seres o cosas que tienen la terrible virtud de ser inolvidables y cuya imagen acaba por enloquecer a la gente
~ Jorge Luís Borges
It's in those moments of admitting and accepting your own terribleness that you realize other people can be terrible too. And if they can be terrible too, then maybe they can be vulnerable too, caring too, and all the things that you are and hope to be.
~ Aaron Starmer
If you expect terrible things…then they don't surprise you, and all good things are like wonderful gifts.
~ Adèle Geras
My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.
~ Roz Chast
Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.
~ Sylvia Plath