Terrible Thing Quotes

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

Vision, Terrible

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Hypatia

Great, Pain, Mind

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

Great, Truth, Beautiful

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Leo Tolstoy

War, Christian, Hand

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

Life, Blame, Happens

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Dan Quayle

Mind, True, Lost

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles

Wrong, Speak, Terrible

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

Religion, Kindness, Terrible

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

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

Mother, Parents, Lost

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

Life, Blame, Happens

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Alberto Giacometti

Impossible, Picture, Works

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Tom Wilson

Mind, Terrible, Waist

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
Arthur Miller

Character, Human, Him

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
David Attenborough

Actually, Talking, Television

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.
Ross MacDonald

Woman, Gun, Ugly

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.
Jim DeMint

Person, Terrible, Worrying

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.
Robert Carlyle

Bullying, Terrible

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
Maria Callas

Life, Rock, Thinking

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing.
Phil McGraw

Friends, Wonderful, Anybody

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.
Loni Anderson

Happen, Smoking, Terrible

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
Lev Grossman

Book, Terrible, Supposed

Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
Anna Deavere Smith

Women, Men, School

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
Desi Arnaz

Business, Failure, Whole

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
Norman MacCaig

Lost, Friends, Start

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
Katherine Mansfield

Alone, Another, Until

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
Nancy Reagan

Time, God, Wise

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.
Jamie Dimon

Together, Wonderful, Terrible

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
John Dyer

Someone, Else, Tragedy

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.
Kirk Douglas

Fear, Makes, Terrible

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