Terrible Quotes

• When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Stars, Ignorance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, September 29, 1888. "An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment" by James Luther Adams and George K. Beach, p. 259, 1991.

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• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Suspense Novels

  Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Leadership, Determination

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• I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

  Tom Brady

  Winning, Loser, Winner

  Interview with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. June, 2005.

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• Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

  Judith Butler

  Peace, War, Satisfaction

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Motivation, Lying

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393

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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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• Love is a wonderful, terrible thing

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Wonderful, Terrible Things

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• The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Happy Life, Men, Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.44, SCM Press

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• Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Failing, Should

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, True Friend, Lying

  Sir Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”

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• Illegal immigration is going to stop. It's dangerous.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Immigration, Remember

  "Platform Check: Breaking Down The Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. April 15, 2016.

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• Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

  John Green

  Thinking, Remember You, Remembers You

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• The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

  Greg Iles

  Law, Brutality, World

  Greg Iles (2009). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.586, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Love You, Catholic, Foundation

  Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger (2007). “Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration”, p.38, Image

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• Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

  Robertson Davies

  Courage, Adversity, Ordinary Extraordinary

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way.

  Tobin Bell

  Interesting, Energy, Way

  "The Only Tobin Bell Interview You'll Ever Need". Interview with Kyle Buchanan, movieline.com. October 16, 2009.

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• There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Insight, Activity

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• The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Truth, Quests

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

  Billy Connolly

  Blow, Thinking, Make You Think

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• The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Suspense, Lasts

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• Interest is a terrible thing to waste.

  Roger Schank

  Waste, Interest, Security

  Roger C. Schank, Ellen Langer (2013). “Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making: Psycho-Logic in Honor of Bob Abelson”, p.6, Psychology Press

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