Terrible Things Quotes - Page 12

• The terrible thing about TERRORISM is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

  Terry Waite

  Practice, Light, Trying

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• It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Leadership, Over You, Trying

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• My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excite me.
  But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. [...] Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Girlfriend, Heart

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, World, Faces

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, Faber & Faber

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• There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Sticks, Terrible

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

  Ricky Gervais

  World, Terrible, Jokes

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

  Kristin Hannah

  Love Is, Rest Of Your Life, Unbearable

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.191, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Scare, Adults

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

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• Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

  Stephen King

  Redemption, Want, Brooks

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Sandman, Release, Ends

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• Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

  Russell Baker

  Peace, War, History

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crowds, Mental Health, Middle

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• 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.

  Carrie Underwood

  Believe, Sometimes, Surfer

  "Fictional character: Sarah Hill". "Soul Surfer", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Hands, People

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• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  Garry Trudeau

  Character, Writing, Entertainment

  "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007.

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• A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

  Dan Quayle

  Intelligence, Mind, Waste

  Dan Quayle (1995). “Standing Firm: A Vice-presidential Memoir”, Harpercollins

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• What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind.

  Dan Quayle

  Mind, Terrible, Loses

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• The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Struggle, Teaching, Men

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• The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

  John Dos Passos

  New York, World, Terrible

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Wall, Believe

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• Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

  P. T. Barnum

  Judging, Publicity, Terrible

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• WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our submissiveness we make it so.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Mean, Land

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

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• It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

  Laurence Harvey

  Mother, Children, Hate

  "Fictional character: Raymond Shaw". "The Manchurian Candidate", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

  Michael Robotham

  Loneliness, Love You, Loss

  "Bleed for Me (Joseph O'Loughlin)". Book by Michael Robotham, 2010.

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• People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

  Klaus Kinski

  Beautiful, People, Terrible

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