Top 100 Quotes About Terrible
#1. Lee had made it pretty clear that I meant something to him and this was the cause of the joy that I couldn't quite tamp down. He didn't like me thinking I was a quick fuck. He didn't like me crying. He didn't like me trembling. And he really didn't like it when Terrible Teddy punched me in the face.
Kristen Ashley
#2. There was no deceiving himself: something terrible, new, and more important than anything before in his life, was taking place within him of which he alone was aware.
Leo Tolstoy
#3. I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.
Lucy Walker
#4. Surely you couldn't be a good doctor and a terrible human being
surely the laws of man, if not God, didn't allow it.
Abraham Verghese
#5. There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don't understand that they are doing great harm.
Kyle Minor
#6. I just think that beautiful people don't have it as hard, you know? They just don't know what rejection's like. That's why super models aren't good actresses, because they don't need anything. If someone is beautiful and she's needy, she's probably had a terrible childhood.
Rob Schneider
#7. This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#8. The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.
David Vann
#9. Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
Charles Dickens
#10. I remember. All of it. And it hurts. More than I'd ever thought possible.
I know where I am and what I've done and why I can't move or speak or open my eyes. And I'm scared.
It was all a terrible mistake.
I'd like not to be here. I'd like to go home now.
Please.
Please
Cat Clarke
#11. It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life you spent not being like that. It made you realize what a waste not being like that was.
Glen Duncan
#12. No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I'll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine?
Salma Hayek
#13. The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
Adam Schiff
#15. It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.
Pete Seeger
#17. For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
Sunday Adelaja
#18. 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
#19. Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.
Wole Soyinka
#20. I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
Zooey Deschanel
#21. But ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
Akira Kurosawa
#22. But I wish to be enlightened.'
'Let me caution you against it.'
'Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?'
'Yes, indeed.'
She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.
Thomas Hardy
#23. There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
Fran Lebowitz
#24. This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
Madeleine L'Engle
#25. You are not as great or terrible as you think you are. Neither are they.
J.D. Mader
#26. I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
John Guare
#27. 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
#28. Perhaps we will end up one of those sad childless couples who spend all their time sleeping late, buying luxury goods, traveling the world, and enjoying each other's company. That would be terrible.
Michael Ian Black
#29. A dry stretch of commentary in the middle of an 'Anchorman' movie would have been a terrible thing.
Adam McKay
#30. Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
Paul Auster
#31. She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.
Kristin Hannah
#32. DSM definitions do not include personal and contextual factors such as whether the depressive symptoms are an understandable response to loss, a terrible life situation, psychological conflict or personality factors.
Allen Frances
#33. Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ... 'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.
Adyashanti
#34. I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
#35. I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
John Berger
#36. So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#37. A heart like mine, which never got any kind of affection growing up, is terrible above all things.
Junot Diaz
#39. All the same I keep on looking for someone incomprehensible who won't understand me either, because I have a terrible thirst for brotherhood
Romain Gary
#40. The most peaceble people will do the most terrible things when they're pushed.
John Le Carre
#41. I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.
Bryan Singer
#42. I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.
Josh Radnor
#43. The number of people that reside on our side will be the determination for a good result. Or a terrible one.
Shannon A. Thompson
#44. If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt, I think grief is easier, in the end.
Sharon Bolton
#45. Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?
Jeff Lindsay
#46. I didn't know there were at least as many terrible independent movies as there are big-budget ones. Like, every single year. And bad in a worse way, too. They're just parodies of themselves sometimes.
Kyle Parker
#47. I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Karl Kraus
#48. Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.
Alex Pareene
#49. Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
John Lennon
#50. I'm a t-terrible h-human."
"No," Piper whispered. "If you want that statement to be true, then you need to remove the adjective.
Jewel E. Ann
#51. Write about a terrible experience until you find value in having gone through it. Then you will appreciate every dark hour.
Jan Marquart
#52. And how are you, Ferdinand?" "You don't have to ask. You mustn't think it's bad just for you. It's bad for everybody. That's the terrible thing. It's bad for Prosper, bad for the man they gave your shop to, bad for everybody. Nobody's going anywhere.
V.S. Naipaul
#53. In the square, as they came out, a suspended mass of gasoline exhaust cooked slowly in the July sun. It was a terrible thing - unlike pure heat it held no promise of rural escape by suggested only roads choked with the same four asthma.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. Some things are too terrible to be true.
Bob Dylan
#55. A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin
Sunday Adelaja
#56. Something terrible happened and people began to shake. It was the reminder that frightened them; the reminder of just how close to the edge we are in life, always, at every moment.
Alexander McCall Smith
#57. I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
Saul Kripke
#58. Do you know how much thinking and feeling I've done? It's terrible. And nothing's come of it.
Andrei Platonov
#59. So many things happen that we can't control, its best not to worry about what we can. Believing you can change the world has a terrible effect on one's ego.
Bauvard
#60. Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight ... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.
Stephanie Mills
#61. We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.
Alan Watts
#62. The power of fate is a wonder; dark, terrible wonder. Neither wealth nor armies, towered walls nor ships, Black hulls lashed by the salt, can save us from that force. - Sophocles
John R. Hale
#63. because in spite of the most terrible suffering, the heart goes on loving; that is the beauty of love.
Santa Montefiore
#64. If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
G.K. Chesterton
#65. You know, he said, with an effort, 'if one person loves, the other does.'
... 'I hope so, because if it were not, love might be a very terrible thing,' she said.
'Yes, but it is - at least with most people,' he answered.
D.H. Lawrence
#66. It takes a long time sometimes," she said, "It can take a terrible long time before things sort themselves out.
Tove Jansson
#67. It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.
Horace Walpole
#68. I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible stories were there, just there in front of me, never to be spoken?
John Barnes
#69. I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.
Terry Pratchett
#70. Is it terrible? Being cut off from spirit's high?" "No, because being with you is a greater high than spirit, drinking, or anything else could ever conjure.
Richelle Mead
#71. Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.
Steven Erikson
#72. The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.
Haruki Murakami
#73. Blame, certainly, is a dish only edible when served fresh and warm. Old blames, grudges and scores congeal and curdle and cause the most terrible indigestion.
Stephen Fry
#74. I think writing is better in odd or terrible places. It makes the magic all the more wonderful, because you're getting lost in a beautiful world.
Megan Linski
#75. Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.
Gloria Steinem
#76. You can tell your kids they are perfect and don't need to change - which could cause insecurity when they recognize their own shortcomings - or tell them they are terrible, which would undermine their sense of self-worth and confidence. There's a happy middle ground.
Daphne Oz
#77. I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.
Trevor McDonald
#78. Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty
Kerrelyn Sparks
#79. I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.
Shonda Rhimes
#80. When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.
Vincent Cassel
#81. If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking.
Joe Rogan
#82. It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
Ezekiel Emanuel
#83. Nothing was more beautiful than a night sky dusted with stars. Nothing was more terrible than a night sky scrawled with a thousand destinies. Night was inevitable. Like me.
Roshani Chokshi
#84. I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.
Walter Cronkite
#85. A pain exploded up high in her chest and spit her out of this terrible world.
Ann Patchett
#86. Murder was a terrible thing. Even if you're not quite right in the head, you can realize that much. Mother must be suffering quite a bit. Perhaps
Robert Bloch
#87. AFTER I DELIVERED VELVET BACK to the farmhouse that night, I entered the condo and walked over to my Minotauromachia. And as I stood before it, it was crystal clear to me that the terrible monster was doomed in the face of the powerful little girl.
Wally Lamb
#88. Kovaly experienced the two supreme horrors of what Hannah Arendt called this terrible century.
Heda Margolius Kovaly
#89. 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.
Douglas Booth
#90. Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.
Marco Rubio
#91. The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell
#92. We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.
Ron Kovic
#93. When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
Lionel Shriver
#94. She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
Kate Atkinson
#95. You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.
Jaffe Cohen
#96. To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.
Helen Dunmore
#97. I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.
Hans Zimmer
#98. The next day was wonderful...and terrible. So, overall, I guess it was okay.
The Harvard Lampoon
#100. There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.
Nell Zink
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