Quotes About Terrible

Everyone has the capacity to do terrible things. Put someone in the right situation, then offer the right incentive or trigger the right emotion, and that person will choose wrong over right, even if it goes against their nature.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

The truth is lots of films are made, the majority of which are terrible.

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

1840s, when Richard Owen first described giant bones in England, he named them Dinosauria: terrible lizards.

You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice.

All the world is luminous and terrible, full of pain.

These people believed that the collapse of the subprime mortgage market was unlikely precisely because it would be such a catastrophe. Nothing so terrible could ever actually happen. The

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

It seems to me that there's a terrible misunderstanding between us. It seems to me that I love you a great deal, my friends.

Owen. He coined the term Dinosauria in 1841. It means 'terrible lizard' and was a curiously inapt name.

The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone off the rails.

At least, I'm not as terrible a magician as whoever enchanted that poor cat! - Mildred Jaeger

My only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me.

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.

I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal, but it seemed to have taken my spirit with it, and everything else it could lay its paws on.

I Have a self to recover, a queen. Is she dead, is she sleeping? Where has she been, With her lion-red body, her wings of glass? Now she is flying More terrible than she ever was, red Scar in the sky, red comet Over the engine that killed her— The mausoleum, the wax house. --from Stings, written 6 October 1962

I am not a smile. These children are after something,with hooks and cries, And my heart too small to bandage their terrible faults.

They thought death was worth it, but I Have a self to recover, a queen. Is she dead, is she sleeping? Where has she been, With her lion-red body, her wings of glass? Now she is flying More terrible than she ever was, red Scar in the sky, red comet Over the engine that killed her- The mausoleum, the wax house.

I am mad, calls the spider, waving its many arms. And in truth it is terrible, Multiplied in the eyes of the flies.

He has about him still a kind of terrible beauty, as dangerously beguiling as the grandeur of a storm rushing across the sea.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

This sight was terrible, more terrible than words can convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.

Prophets had come from the desert, radiant, beautiful and terrible. Prophets and demons.