Quotes About Terrible

Woman is as elemental as the sea, and at times equally terrible in her power.' he murmured. 'Man resorts to brute force in order to subdue her subtle cruelty, for he is constantly aware of the forces which can overcome his strength and drown his will to a mere incoherent murmur in the silken hollow of a fragile white shoulder. Be wise in your power, pequena. It can bring you happiness or despair.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

These two distinct crimes, with their different emphases on the individual and the group, grew side by side, yet over time genocide emerged in the eyes of many as the crime of crimes, a hierarchy that left a suggestion that the killing of large numbers of people as individuals was somehow less terrible.

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even I, in my terrible difference, wanted nothing less than purpose and meaning. Chapter 8, pgs 35-36

It was a terrible thing when death first entered the world, and even now when it's the way of nature, it's terrible beyond words. Whether it comes for your mother by her own hands or for a stranger who can say nothing in defense of himself except that his watch is solid gold, standing witness to death leaves you desolate - Addison Goldheart pg. 116

The passions may be terrible, but the syllables are a relief.

Those who did remember probably shrugged off the chill of her memory, turned their heads down to the sports page or up toward the approaching bus. The world is a terrible place, they thought. Bad things happen every day. My bus is late.

This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.

Half the people in our asylums may be suffering from a physical lesion of the brain but the others are unaccountably insane. The real reason is demoniac possession brought about by looking upon terrible things that they were never meant to see.

It's a terrible thing, to think it might be me that would be the threat, that I could kill you with my love-but it's true.

It's only when the blood is bright red, and a terrible lot all at once, that ye worry.

Well, you're speaking to the only man in Scotland who has a terrible cockstand at sight of a plucked chicken." I spluttered in my brandy and

Because if you can just hold off the moment when you must confront reality, time stands still and you can keep pretending that life will continue as you´ve known it: that nothing-not even something as wonderful and as terrible as love-has broken your world beyond repair.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

We think of effortless performance as desirable, but it's really a terrible way to learn

I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.

Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

I've always been really terrible with horror films. I scare really easily and can't stand all the violence and gore.

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.