Quotes About Terrible

The mob is terrible—disgusting," he said to himself in French. "They are like wolves whom nothing but flesh can appease.

The doctor declared that his physical sufferings were terrible, and he was right; but more horrible even than his physical sufferings were his moral sufferings, his greatest torment.

The vengeance of history is more terrible than the vengeance of the most powerful General Secretary.

Death stationed itself in the corner and would not go away. It would not go away because it was my thought. It is not death that is terrible, but the knowledge of it: it would be utterly impossible to live if a man could know exactly and definitely the day and hour of his death.

Guilt, Ameline discovered, was a terrible, unruly think, like toothache - dull nagging, persistent, never far from attention. Just when you got used to its rumbling, ruminating presence, it would lash out, stike you down, stio you dead in your tracks. The worst thing was, it was entirely unpredicatable.

It was psychologically natural for the lively younger sister to become the royal equivalent of the enfant terrible.

People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time.

Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you're willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even something terrible in the imperfect structure of the universe.

I hate the Internet. It's full of rubbish. I'm on it all the time, watching terrible, useless things and ossifying my brain.

What must the ancient world have been like, she wondered, with all these strange things moving around in it? Was it wonderful or terrible?

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible.

When two of his legions, in direct contradiction of his orders, engaged with Spartacus and suffered yet another defeat, Crassus's response was to resurrect the ancient and terrible punishment of decimation. Every tenth man was beaten to death, the obedient along with the disobedient, the brave along with the cowardly, while their fellows were forced to watch.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things

I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.

she leaned forward over the table and whispered: 'This calm is unnatural. It means something terrible is going to happen. Dear Gaffsie, believe me, we are so very small and insignificant, and so are our tea cakes and carpets and all those things, you know, and still they're so important, but always they're threatened by mercilessness …

It was a terrible, strange-looking hotel. But Little Sunshine stayed on: it was his rightful home, he said, for if he went away, as he had once upon a time, other voices, other rooms, voices lost and clouded, strummed his dreams.

The danger came from the white dragon. This was Father, some kind of partner to the dragon who cared. The newly hatched dragonet could hardly look at him without seeing a spiral of confusing flashes: pain, fury, screaming dragons, and blood, everywhere, blood. This white dragon had done something terrible that haunted him, and he might do worse someday. Father's mind had patches of damp, rotten vileness all over it.

We're going to inflict Qibli's terrible fashion sense on this whole continent?" Winter asked, joking awkwardly. "I'm afraid we have no choice," said Queen Thorn. "I think you mean 'wow, what a lot of lucky, soon-to-be-stylish dragons,

You would see that even when God is most terrible, he is never cruel, the way men are.

There will come a day of reckoning... All this pleasure will have to be paid for, and it will be terrible.

Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.