Quotes About Terrible

There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other.

for doubt and secrecy are the lure of lures, and no new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

It is only in the terrible phantasms of drugs or delirium that any other man can have such a descent as mine.

are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other.

Strange and terrible books were drawn voluminously from the stack shelves and from secure places of storage; and diagrams and formulae were copied with feverish haste and in bewildering abundance.

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe. Conflict with time seems to me the most potent and fruitful theme in all human expression.

The dog was still whimpering. But now Goldberg thought that maybe he heard another sound too, another whimpering maybe, or something worse, underneath the first—a terrible, pain-stricken noise so nonhuman that paradoxically it could only come from another human being. "Deputy Chief Goldberg?" He swallowed and dived in. "There's this lawyer named Harry Sutton.…

I am Pittsburgh proud, I root for the Steelers and I still have my Terrible Towel!

There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.

And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.

It's sort of like a reminder [click my teeth together] to remember it, but I don't think it works. I have terrible memory and really bad teeth as a result.

That was how he would go on tormenting her, after his physical departure from her life. A baroque plan, byzantine even, a plan that both pleased and shamed him. He awaited only the night, this one grotesque, terrible night.

He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. It was to his judiciousness, at every turn, that he owed the fact that nothing terrible had ever happened to him.

Next he placed on his head the fur-rimmed Crown (or Cap) of Monomakh, embellished with rubies and emeralds, and handed him the orb and sceptre. Michael sat on the throne of Monomakh. The Cap had never been owned by the Byzantine emperor Constantine Monomakh who gave it his name, but was a royal Mongol helmet, adapted in the fourteenth century, while the wooden throne, carved with lions and Byzantine scenes, had actually been built for Ivan the Terrible.

First loves are often terrible, probably because they are first and there is no conscious history into which they may be absorbed.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

And the wild things...gnashed their terrible teeth ...

The minds which one found in the pages of a book were understandable. But the minds of living men—how terrible they were! One

sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.' Napoleon

When some misfortune threatens, consider seriously and deliberately what is the very worst that could possibly happen. Having looked this possible misfortune in the face, give yourself sound reasons for thinking that after all it would be no such very terrible disaster. Such reasons always exist, since at the worst nothing that happens to oneself has any cosmic importance.

What you say about changing one's self denial is only too true and terrible - it went to my heart - one does form a habit, and then it is no bother.