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Quotes About Terrible

together. 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.
~ Elizabeth Rudnick
I've been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn't like that at all. It is beautiful, but it's a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is- The thing is you want to. You don't care what's coming you just want who your heart beats for.
~ Elizabeth Scott
O where does he stalk like a horse in pastures very far afield? I cannot hear him, and silence writes more terrible things than he can ever deny. Is there a suspicion the battle is lost? Certainly he killed me fourteen nights in succession. To rise again from such slaughter Messiah must indeed become a woman. He said this absence was the mere mechanics of the thing. But It is not the same.
~ Elizabeth Smart
The country is crazy with barrenness, and the sea mocks it with its terrible beauty.
~ Elizabeth Stoddard
Bewildering that you could harm a child without even knowing, thinking all the while you were being careful, conscientious. But it was a terrible feeling. More terrible than having
~ Elizabeth Strout
Awful to think she was a disapproving mother. Awful to wonder—had she always frightened Amy? Is that why the girl had grown up so fearful, always ducking her head? It was bewildering to Isabelle. Bewildering that you could harm a child without even knowing, thinking all the while you were being careful, conscientious. But it was a terrible feeling.
~ Elizabeth Strout
la certeza de moverse a sus anchas por un paisaje hostil, desolado como la vida misma, con la confortable sensación de que nada propio se dejaba atrás, y nada había por delante lo bastante terrible como para refrenarle a uno el paso. Aquéllas
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Y si terribles son quienes dicen actuar en nombre de una autoridad, una jerarquía o una patria, mucho peores son quienes se estiman justificados por cualquier dios.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Después, con el tiempo, aprendí que, aunque todos los hombres somos capaces de lo bueno y de lo malo, los peores siempre son aquellos que, cuando administran el mal, lo hacen amparándose en la autoridad de otros, en la subordinación o en el pretexto de las órdenes recibidas. Y si terribles son quienes dicen actuar en nombre de una autoridad, una jerarquía o una patria, mucho peores son quienes se estiman justificados por cualquier dios.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light.
~ Francois Nars
I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.
~ Claire Danes
I think it's cool to read that Draymond Green is transcending the NBA. I also think it's cool to read that Draymond Green is terrible.
~ Draymond Green
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
~ Garry Trudeau
It is also a terrible trait of men that they should be incapable of understanding the forces of the universe intuitively, otherwise than in terms of a psychology of wrath.
~ Gaston Bachelard
There is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it.
~ Gaston Leroux
You see, Christine, there is some music that is so terrible that it consumes all those who approach it.
~ Gaston Leroux
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.
~ George Eliot
The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.
~ James Gray
What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on.
~ Donna Shalala
Hannah had no ear for music, she thought, pulling out one of the combs. Of course, no one liked that jazz music, but Hannah ought to know enough to get some good orchestra. Jazz was terrible. Even a radio play was better than that awful boom-boom.
~ Samuel M. Steward
What I write [. . .] doesn't seem to be . . . true. I mean I can model so little of what it's about. Life is a very terrible thing, mostly, with points of wonder and beauty. Most of what makes it terrible, though, is simply that there's so much of it, blaring in through the five senses. In my loft, alone, in the middle of the night, it comes blaring in. So I work at culling enough from it to construct moments of order.
~ Samuel R. Delaney
Triumph was laughable and terrible and his.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Life is a very terrible thing, mostly, with points of wonder and beauty. Most of what makes it terrible, though, is simply that there's so much of it, blaring in through the five senses.
~ Samuel R. Delany
There are many different types of crime like infanticide, homicide, matricide, killing of cows etc. But not acknowledging the existence of God in all living beings, makes one guilty of the most terrible crime of killing the indweller God who resides in all beings.
~ Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu