With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
Jean Anouilh

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
Salman Rushdie

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac

There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Honore De Balzac

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
Karl Kraus

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
James Herriot

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

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

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

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.
Benny Hinn

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Isoroku Yamamoto

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.
Lou Gehrig

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.
Meir Kahane

I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.
Meir Kahane

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

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.
James Taylor