Top 100 Quotes About Terrible Things
#1. 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.
Dennis Wheatley
#4. People did terrible things to each other- and half the time they did it by accident.
Josh Lanyon
#5. Then there were things
epic, terrible things
that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.
Laini Taylor
#6. I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork ...
Steve Martin
#7. I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.
Hutch Harris
#8. I would do terrible things for the ones I love, Miss Wyndham.
Tarun Shanker
#9. Life hands us things we don't want. Nasty things. Terrible things. It's how we handle those things that matters. That's all.
Lisa Schroeder
#10. I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
Tom Waits
#11. Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Edward Kennedy
#12. It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
Louis C.K.
#13. The terrible things that happen to us," Tessa said slowly. "What we
do with them ... I think that's what makes us artists.
Helen Maryles Shankman
#14. For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
Yanis Varoufakis
#15. Here is a list of terrible things,
The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of the dogs of war,
The voice of one who went before,
But most of all the mirror's gaze,
Which counts us out our numbered days.
Clive Barker
#16. If you think all these terrible things about Obama, he asked the woman, how can you possibly be undecided?
Because if McCain dies, Palin would be president, she said.
John Heilemann
#17. If it weren't for the Chicagos and Detroits and Toledos, the terrible things would spread out across the whole country and make trouble for everybody else. Such places were collectors of badness in the way hospitals were collectors of the sick and damaged.
Stephen Dobyns
#18. This diary holds memories of terrible things. Things that were covered up. Things that happened at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
J.K. Rowling
#19. Sometimes I say terrible things to him because I don't want him to know I'm sad; sometimes I fly off the handle to hide the fact that I don't know what I'm talking about. And other times
too often, maybe
I don't dare have an opinion in case it upsets anyone.
Helen Oyeyemi
#20. Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don't you think? For doing terrible things to other people.
Jennifer McMahon
#21. There's something fairy-tale-like about it, which is perfect, because fairy tales are all about innocence and ill will and the inevitability of terrible things. They're all about the moment when a girl is no longer who she once was
Nina LaCour
#22. Sometimes good people [are] helpless ... terrible things happen ... to good people ... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.
Mercedes Lackey
#23. America's not the world's policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.
Rand Paul
#24. That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
Garry Trudeau
#25. I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
Alan Greenspan
#26. As you said, he had everything. That made him feel safe and powerful. People can do terrible things when they feel safe and powerful.
Becky Chambers
#27. Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
H.R. Giger
#28. The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love. - Madame Dorothea
Cassandra Clare
#29. You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.
Liane Moriarty
#30. Terrible things are done in the name of religion, without a doubt, but it was not religion but science that brought the world itself to the brink of destruction.
Chris Beckett
#31. Rose, this is Sebby," she said. "Sebby, Rose."
"Oh yeah. Sebastian, right?" Rose said. "I've hard about you."
"Only terrible things, I hope."
"The worst.
Kate Scelsa
#32. Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.
Andrew Klavan
#33. Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.
George Vaillant
#34. But he's wrong, isn't he? Everything isn't always fine. Terrible things happen in this world. Awful things. You have to do your best to prevent them.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#35. The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.
Iain Pears
#36. There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.
Mose Allison
#37. And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?
Jeff Lindsay
#38. Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.
Jim Butcher
#39. A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Cecil B. DeMille
#40. When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Tony Campolo
#41. Humidity did terrible things to me. I'd be much prettier if I lived in the desert.
Kim Harrington
#42. Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.
Sarah Paulson
#43. There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.
Philip Pullman
#44. It's awful, writing such terrible things about the person you love, but I'll take a pen and paper over a psychiatrist's chair any day of the week. This is my therapy.
Pete Wentz
#45. If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible things and other people come here and look at my record collection and go, "Ah, you can't possibly like that - how embarrassing!"
Thighpaulsandra
#46. Our connection to the teachings of Socrates, for instance, is through the written word of Plato, because Socrates was vehemently against the written word. Socrates thought that the book would do terrible things to our memories.
Clay A. Johnson
#47. There are much more terrible things than physical injury.
J.K. Rowling
#48. If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
Sydney J. Harris
#49. This is because secrets are terrible things.
Even the simplest ones
Karen Foxlee
#50. Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.
Alex Lifeson
#51. There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen.
Dexter Palmer
#52. One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.
Sam Altman
#53. You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are ...
Adam Rex
#54. But we cannot choose what we remember and what we forget. All the lovely bright moments of our lives get forgotten except for remnants here and there, like the leaves blown from a tree in the autumn, and the terrible things, they stick with us forever, as bright and raw as the day they happened.
Paul Kearney
#55. It was nice, Simon thought, in the midst of all the terrible things that could happen and sometimes did happen, there was always this. There was a lot of love.
Cassandra Clare
#56. Sweet Jesus, war does terrible things to people.
Jim Broadbent
#57. I don't know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.
Carrie Underwood
#58. I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, and even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen. So I talk with
him.
Nicholas Sparks
#59. Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism
and it's very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our bodies. And there are much better ways to control our behavior than that rather extraordinary use of guilt.
Ted Bundy
#60. You've followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own free will?
T.T. Escurel
#61. Life is filled with doing terrible things and those who want to survive definitely have to do the worst of them.
Livio Gambarini
#62. The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?
Marshall Herskovitz
#64. What happens when two people of terrible pride fall for each other?
Terrible things.
Destruction, Chason, Pain. Sorrow.
War.
R.K. Lilley
#66. There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.
Nell Zink
#67. I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.
Dane DeHaan
#68. The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.
John Le Carre
#69. I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
William Goldman
#70. We do terrible things to the ones we love. We cheat and lie and betray them, for thirty pieces of silver or our own selfish hearts. The only way love endures is because of one simple gift. Forgiveness.
Vanessa Woods
#71. I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#72. But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.
Terry Pratchett
#73. And this time, I can feel my hand. I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we're alive.
And I want to be alive.
Jasmine Warga
#74. Friend John, it does rejoice me unspeakable that she is no more to be pained, no more to be worried with our terrible things. Though we shall much miss her help, it is better so.
Bram Stoker
#75. Little Hawk, it is not for us to tell how great and terrible things come about. Only the Great Spirit can see all.
Susan Cooper
#76. I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.
Terry Pratchett
#77. I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
Ralph Lauren
#78. Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.
Ali Liebegott
#79. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
Frederick Buechner
#80. I remember my own childhood vividly ... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
Maurice Sendak
#81. People do terrible things. People do beautiful things. It's against the black backdrop of evil that the shining light of good shows the brightest. We can't just focus on the darkness of the night, or we'll miss out on the stars.
Wendy Mills
#82. I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.
Jason Clarke
#83. So many terrible things are done for love," Mab's voice said. "For love will men mutilate themselves and murder rivals. For love will even a peaceful man go to war. For love, man will destroy himself, and that right willingly.
Jim Butcher
#84. You cannot expect life to go wonderfully. Terrible things might not be happening now...but they will. Probably to you. Your job is to accept that and live a nice life anyway.
Jennifer Niesslein
#85. Nice people sometimes do terrible things because they don't want to do one small mean thing. It doesn't automatically make them a bad person forever.
Lucy Dillon
#86. I'll do horrible, terrible things in your name," he murmured, fingertips dragging along my skin.
Anne Zoelle
#88. Child Abuse is ... the mean and terrible things you do to a child ... knowing that you can never get away with doing the same to an adult!
Timothy Pina
#89. Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.
Madeleine L'Engle
#90. The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things
Lemony Snicket
#91. Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.
Larry Kramer
#92. He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.
Laini Taylor
#93. My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.
Tom Lenk
#94. Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.
Shane Claiborne
#95. There is a brief moment when you first wake where you have no memories. An idyllic blank slate. A blissful emptiness. But it doesn't last long. You remember exactly who you are and all the terrible things you've gone through.
J.L. Weil
#96. People die, terrible things happen. I know this now. You can't pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
Ann Patchett
#97. Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?
Maggie O'Farrell
#98. He'd been at the Glade for roughly twenty-four hours. One full day. And look at all the things that had happened. All the terrible things. Surely it could only get better.
James Dashner
#99. One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.
James Frey
#100. She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.
Terry Pratchett
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