Terrible Things Quotes - Page 16

• All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

  Pema Chodron

  Philosophy, Character, Medicine

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• I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.

  Neil Innes

  Girl, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.

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• Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Gratitude, Dangerous, Terrible

  Elizabeth Ferrars (2014). “Experiment with Death”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

  Coolio

  Reality, Mind, Waste

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• That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

  Nick Flynn

  Soldier, Surprise, Wartime

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• 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

  Years, Together, Unraveling

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• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Kids, Psychosis

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

  Linwood Barclay

  Writing, Cutting, People

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• I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.

  Anne Perry

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.

  Grace Paley

  Young, Terrible, Stills

  Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.275, Macmillan

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• The terrible thing about being blacklisted as an actress was that even though, intellectually, you knew what was happening, you still always wondered whether you weren't being hired because you weren't any good.

  Kim Hunter

  Actresses, Terrible, Stills

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• The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.

  Michael Coren

  Hate, Years, Two

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• It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

  Pete Seeger

  People, Advice, Calling

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Things In Life, Possibility, Terrible

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

  Ntozake Shange

  Wall, Want, Terrible

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• I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

  Richard Simmons

  Desperate Measures, Pills, Weight

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Every country should be tired of going to war. War is a terrible thing. If I had been in Congress, as much as I would be inclined naturally to be supportive of a president, any president, I would have voted no, had the issue come to a vote.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, War, Tired

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Silly, Anger, Mean

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• One of the things I love about the theater is that no one can tell you to stop. Once you're onstage, it's three hours, and whether you're completely off or you're just horrendous, you've got to find a way to leave an impression. There's not that terrible thing that you get when you're making a movie, where you get in your car at the end of the day knowing that something you're not proud of was immortalized on film, and you can't fix it because they won't reshoot it.

  Carey Mulligan

  Knowing, Car, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Drama's not safe and it's not pretty and it's not kind. People expect the basic template of television drama where there might be naughty villains, but everyone ends up having a nice cup of tea. You've got to do big moral choices and show the terrible things people do in terrible situations. Drama is failing if it doesn't do that.

  Russell T Davies

  Nice, Drama, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

  Eula Biss

  Kids, Son, Decision

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• Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

  Jean Rhys

  Rasputin, Down And, Awful

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• 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

  Night, Years, Worry

  "Interview with Senator Jim DeMint". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 17, 2012.

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• The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mistake, Thinking, Evil

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

  Alberto Giacometti

  Impossible, Terrible

  Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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