Horrible Things Quotes - Page 5

• I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

  Hilary Duff

  Growing Up, School, Mean

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• War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Lying, Games

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Sweet, Dumb

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.10, Penguin

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• I think there is a risk that the Holocaust will be placed under a glass bubble just like the Napoleonic Wars or the Thirty Years' War. If you don't make the connection between memories of past atrocities and the present, there isn't any point to it. There are plenty of horrible things happening today in Germany and in the rest of the world.

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

  Memories, War, Past

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem.
  How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Spiritual, Heart, Frustrated

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• War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.

  Mike Hoffman

  War, Atrocities, Matter

  "Breaking Ranks: An Interview with Mike Hoffman". Interview with Eva Steele-Saccio, www.motherjones.com. October 11, 2004.

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• I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Adventure, Dark, Thinking

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• It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Powerful, Crazy, Thinking

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, November 10, 2004.

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• I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Letting Go, Men, Self

  Letter to Dorothy Thompson, December 29, 1927.

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• The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, People, Horror

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• Catholicism is a really mean religion, and it's incredibly hypocritical. But it plays a role in my life 'cause you can't really get a lot of things out of your head, such as what Jesus Christ looks like and that divorce is a horrible thing.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jesus, Mean, Divorce

  Source: www.ultramadonna.com

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• I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more.

  Andy Biersack

  Laughing, Guy, Band

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• The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

  Lu Xun

  Government, Tyrants, Execution

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• Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of dreams, and we don't need to go into those dreams. Those dreams are beyond. Child pornography - it's horrible. Human suffering is a horrible thing in real life.

  John Carpenter

  Dream, Children, Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sleep, Air, Tunnels

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• It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today.

  Christian Schwochow

  Thinking, East Germany, Interesting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.'

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Laughter, World, Care

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Horrible

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• That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Writing, Enemy, Paper

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• I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.

  Alice Hoffman

  Thinking, People, Secret

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• At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don’t believe that it’s when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he’s able to do them, and that he does them well.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Believe, Men, Monsters

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• Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Admire

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• I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.

  Geezer Butler

  Uncles, Aunt, Night

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• Id like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!

  Joseph Mazzello

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Government, Racism

  "Desperate Establishment Launch Baseless 'Racist' Attacks On Rand Paul". Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.prisonplanet.com. May 20, 2010.

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