Terrible Things Quotes - Page 6

• Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Empires, Shoulders

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language; the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.

  Warsan Shire

  Thinking, Perfectly Normal, Sound

  Source: kalamu.com

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• It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

  Salman Rushdie

  Stories, Terrible, Turns

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his own people. He has used chemical weapons on his own people. He continues to be a hindrance to peace in Syria. And that is something the Trump administration strongly believes.

  Nikki Haley

  War, Believe, Issues

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things  -  they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Grace, Would Be

  Source: medium.com

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• I would say Tony Blair is very much a lapdog. I'm terribly scared that when he finally goes - and we can only hope it's soon - that he will be remembered for all these terrible things that he's done. Which is kind of a scary thing for a Labor Prime Minister.

  Thea Gilmore

  Scary, Done, Scared

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.

  Geert Wilders

  Christian, Islamic, Looks

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I do want to bring up the fact that Hillary Clinton were the one that brought up the words super-predator about young black youth. And that's a term that I think was a - it's - it's been horribly met, as you know. I think she has apologized for it. But I think it was a terrible thing to say.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Black Youth, Want

  Source: time.com

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• Why couldn't there be even a western slasher, or why couldn't there be a serial killer in a kind of pirate buccaneer Caribbean, just someone that's just doing terrible, terrible things in the ports, the sexy ports of Jamaica during the Pirate Renaissance.

  Robert Englund

  Sexy, Jamaica, Pirate

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign of my moral deficiency, if I would deal with someone like that. It's a terrible thing to do.

  Mark Shields

  Mean, Collaboration, Racist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

  Kate Bush

  War, Planets, Terrible

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Doe, Said, Terrible

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If Hillary Clinton had won and if my people went out and protested, everybody would say, "Oh, that's a terrible thing."

  Donald Trump

  People, Clinton, Terrible

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.

  Nat Hentoff

  College, Organization, Numbers

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

  Daniel Handler

  Interesting, Might, Orphan

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". Interview with Peter Sagal, wvasfm.org. January 21, 2017.

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• I had this idea about terrible things happening to orphans, and I knew it was such a horrible idea that the idea of writing it down and then submitting it professionally was obviously absurd.

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Ideas, Down And

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". Interview with Peter Sagal, wvasfm.org. January 21, 2017.

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• I've made so many crazy mistakes and done so many terrible things, I don't know. I'd just say I'm grateful for every mistake and every disappoint that I've had to experience - that I'm still loved and still cared for, that God's still here for me.

  LeCrae

  Mistake, Crazy, Grateful

  Source: www.wheatonrecord.com

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• 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

  Wise, Men, Doors

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• Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Book, Blessing, Events

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

  John Dyer

  Tragedy, Wish, Terrible

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• I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.

  Ian Mcewan

  Strong, Things In Life, Novelists

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I am very romantic about communism even still, but I know terrible things happened.

  Lars von Trier

  Communism, Very Romantic, Terrible

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I think that when you're playing someone who does really questionable or even really terrible things in a movie, it's important to show where that person is coming from. They're doing it from a necessary impulse. There is a struggle that's going on within them as a human.

  Dane DeHaan

  Struggle, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

  Anjelica Huston

  Acting, Terrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.

  Eytan Fox

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  "Exploring Masculinity and Modern Views of Israeli’s, Eytan Fox Discusses 'Walk on Water'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. March 3, 2005.

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