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Quotes About Terrible

I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.
~ Catherine Anderson
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.
~ Holly Black
If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren't reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help?
~ Adriana Trigiani
Judgment, than which nothing is more strict Hell, than which nothing is more terrible Paradise, than which nothing is more delightful
~ Adriana Trigiani
Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness—the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.
~ Aeschylus
Applied to the news , having perspective involves an ability to compare an apparently traumatic event in the present with the experiences of humanity across the whole of its history – in order to work out what level of attention and fear it should fairly demand. With perspective in mind, we soon realize that – contrary to what the news suggests – hardly anything is totally novel, few things are truly amazing and very little is absolutely terrible.
~ Alain de Botton
With perspective in mind, we soon realize that – contrary to what the news suggests – hardly anything is totally novel, few things are truly amazing and very little is absolutely terrible.
~ Alain de Botton
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
~ Alan Moore
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
~ Desi Arnaz
You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.
~ Diane Duane
Ah!" he said. "Love, that terrible thing!
~ Djuna Barnes
It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.
~ Donald Cargill
A father's love can be a terrible thing
~ Jeph Loeb
The terrible loop began on a Tuesday and didn't end until the day I saw a skullcracker swallow the brain of a bank-hired assassin.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
~ Jeremy Taylor
No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway
They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Of my students, more than half fail to take this basic precaution, because people are terrible, stupid, and also lazy." She folded her arms, leaning against the table. "I mention this lesson every year, and every year, I am disappointed. Nevertheless, in my weakness, I retain some hope that this class will be the one class to finally demonstrate a degree of basic competence. I look forward to being disappointed once again.
~ Andrew Rowe
Como muy bien has advertido, esto no es un cuento, sino la vida real. Terrible y malvada. Y por eso, maldita sea, vivámosla lo mejor y más decentemente posible. Limitemos la cantidad de los daños realizados a otros al mínimo indispensable.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Y a nosotros no nos queda más que la venganza. Una venganza terrible y cruel, de la que todavía circularán leyendas dentro de cien años. Leyendas que la gente temerá escuchar cuando caiga la noche.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Universal peace among nations is a condition of prosperity, the old man tried to prove, and peace is achieved by arming oneself. The most certain method of preventing wars is to have a terrible weapon as a deterrent: the more terrible it is, the more enduring and certain the peace.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.
~ Carol Vorderman
In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful, the terribly poor things... ' whereas from within, it's nothing like that. It's fantastic, it's glamorous, it's terrible and good the same as it is for everybody.
~ Steven Knight