Quotes About Terrible

Stillness was dangerous for us when we were among mortals, Marius had taught me, for in stillness we appear flawless and unearthly and finally even faintly terrible to mortals, who sense that we are not what we seem.

One last note on this illness. I said that it was terrible, yet that in some ways very little seemed to be wrong. Imagine a ship leaving West Africa for the New World. If the compass was set only one degree out – just one tiny degree out of three hundred and sixty – it could end up not in New York but in Mexico. That is what I mean by a tiny flaw and a catastrophic result.

General Robert E Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg: It is well that war is so terrible, the gray-bearded general said. "We should grow too fond of it. (p. 37)

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled sweetly and told me how terrible and fucked-up I was were complete fuckups themselves.

Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.

A veces pienso que nos pasamos tanto tiempo tomando precauciones contra eventualidades terribles que no nos queda gran cosa que valga la pena.

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Strange and terrible were the adventures they undertook with a merry heart

For fifteen years, I had been a presence—terrible or wonderful, but never boring—at Wimbledon, stirring conversation and controversy even when I didn't show up. In my own inimitable way, and without even willing it, I had become part of Wimbledon's tradition.

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, 'This is the way it was.'

There is nothing more terrible, she has decided, than the ferocity with which humans can love.

She's leaving them behind. The agony of this is exquisite. There is nothing more terrible, she has decided, than the ferocity with which humans can love.

Even given my limited knowledge of the vast span of Terran history, terrible crimes seemed terribly commonplace and didn't usually lead to enlightenment.

Fortunately for terrible spies, most people are terrible observers.

I have terrible taste in women. And Zanya, being an awful human being, was exactly the kind of terrible that was just to my taste.

My taste was terrible, but it was not that bad.

I dislike people who are forever getting into shape. I am in terrible shape and haven't exercised since the Truman administration.

Later, as his [Cuvier's] list of extinct species grew, his position changed. There had, he decided, been multiple cataclysms. "Life on earth has often been disturbed by terrible events," he wrote. "Living organisms without number have been victims of these catastrophes.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

But, as many thought whenever they saw the graceful figure soaring through the air, it took a great hero and a terrible villain to make it all come about. And her name was Maleficent.