Terrible Quotes

Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.

Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

War is just like bush-clearing-the moment you stop, the jungle comes back even thicker, but for a little while you can plant and grow a crop in the ground you have won at such a terrible cost.

Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

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

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

It's the first time I can ever remember being scared that the United States might mess up and something terrible will happen to us.

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.

I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.

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.

The weak can be terrible because they try furiously to appear strong.

For many people the reason why they're idiots is not necessarily that their brain doesn't work well, it's that they got in a terrible pattern.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

O Luther, you had 95 theses . . . The matter is far more terrible-there is only one thesis. The Christianity of the New Testament does not exist at all. Here there is nothing to reform.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

You're the first Shadowhunter I've ever met." “That’s too bad,” said Jace, “since all the others you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown.

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.

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.

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

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.