Terrible Quotes

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

Future, Present, Shall

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Angela Davis

Time, Racism, Same

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Art, Science

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Stephen Fry

Christmas, Travel, Child

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Martin Scorsese

Religion, Kindness, Attempt

As a child I had terrible asthma.
Martin Scorsese

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.
Hugh Jackman

Wife, Bad, Saying

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
Brian Eno

Future, Enough, Far

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
Jose Saramago

Life, Rest, Either

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Tori Amos

Business, Career, Artists

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.
Anna Nicole Smith

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
Pat Robertson

Iraq, Rebuilding

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern

History, War, Political

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de la Bruyere

Death, Die, Others

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.
Alan Dershowitz

Money, Successful, Everything

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
John Mayer

Dating, Woman, Guilt

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
Pete Townshend

Music, Makes, Trouble

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
Pat Robertson

Said, Vote, Somebody

The Katrina matter was terrible.
Pat Robertson

Matter, Katrina

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson

Great, God, Evil

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
Richard Branson

Life, Work, Money

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis

Government, End, May

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

Life, Blame, Happens

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Positive, Black, Kid

Temptation to behave is terrible.
Bertolt Brecht

Temptation, Behave

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber

Laughter, Takes, Tears

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Doris Lessing

Society, Young, Wonderful

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
Susan Orlean

Happy, Bad, Hard

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
Ralph Nader

Age, Time, Keep

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.
Swami Sivananda

Fight, Put, Conquer

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