Quotes About Terrible

Mark Twain said it best: "I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." Think about that for a moment. Fear is rooted in what may happen, something that does not even exist in reality. Yet how frequently we allow this emotion to consume our thoughts, ultimately deciding the course of our lives

I believe in the future of the terrible.

Paradox is not suited to burials, nor to weddings or births, in fact. Sinister — or grotesque — events require commonplaces; the terrible, like the painful, accommodates only the cliché.

Those small acts f love were an omen of terrible events to come

Those small acts of love were an omen of terrible events to come.

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

I like beautiful melodies telling you terrible things," Waits said of such songs. "Is it my thorny, dark, oozing side, or is it just the way I see the world?

Since I'm known for recording other artists' material, I'm absolutely deluged with mail from all the publishing companies. They take all the songs that've been lying around the office for months and throw them at me. Most of them are terrible, but you have to listen... just in case.

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.

It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! ("The Testimony of the Suns")

As there was no further precaution possible I enjoyed the extraordinary magnificence of the storm with a free mind . . . and all the wonderful and terrible things that happen in high places .

I'm too tired to cope with a teenager. I thought the terrible twos were supposed to be the worst age and now I'm discovering it's sixteen.

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

The storm howled out of the west like the terrible voice of God, shouting down the heretics who doubted the coming Apocalypse.

What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.

She had tempted them as she had tempted him, with ancient knowledge and the path to power. But that past should stay buried, and power given easily comes with a terrible price. If

Diodorus Siculus confessed His gradual ease among the likes of this: Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible Beheaded girl, outstaring axe And beatification, outstaring What had begun to feel like reverence. -"Strange Fruit

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.