Quotes About Terrible

There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.

Terrible accidents, I have found, are often odd.

The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened.

Terrible fires resemble terrible people. They are unpredictable. They are selfish. they are deadly and ruinous. And no matter where they are prowling, no matter what treachery they are cooking up, they have something in common. They can be stopped.

How could she live?" he asked. "She betrayed me. She betrayed all of us. How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

really, really"—horrendous

How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

No seriously, I'm a 910-year-old time lord, tough as old boots . Eat me and you'll have terrible indigestion for the next twenty years. Don't say I didn't warn you!

She truly is a symbol of the resilience of nature—and a reminder of all that was lost on that terrible day twenty years ago.

Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

The Furies?" Zara said. "The Erinyes? The terrible ones?" At Nikki's look of surprise, Zara rolled her eyes. "I'm an actress, woman, remember? I've read the classics. Christ, I'm starring in motherfucking Medea, in case you hadn't noticed." "Oedipus was the mother-fucking one," the disheveled old lady said, sounding pleased with herself. "Not Medea.

I am thinking of Achilles' grief, he said. That famous, terrible, grief. Let me tell you boys something. Such grief can only be told in form. Form is everything. Without it you've got nothing but a stubbed-toe cry—sincere, maybe, for what that's worth, but with no depth or carry. No echo. You may have a grievance but you do not have grief, and grievances are for petitions, not poetry.

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

Jack: "Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?" Gwendolen: "I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.

He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety.

Culture and corruption, echoed Dorian. I have known something of both. It seems terrible to me now that they should ever be found together.

Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.

It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.

from that terrible love the soft pure hands gave peace to my eyes and sun to my senses.