Terrible Quotes - Page 20

• If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

  Vernon Howard

  Loss, Thinking, Opposites

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• Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Smoking, Looks

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history!

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, America, Religion

  "Toss (some of 'em) to the lions". The Tuscaloosa News, September 15, 1993.

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• I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pain, Self

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mother, Hurt, Brother

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• They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

  Solomon Northup

  Fear, Prayer, Ignorant

  Solomon Northup (2016). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.135, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

  James E. Faust

  Philosophy, Addiction, Drug

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• For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

  Alison Lohman

  Daughter, Mother, Selfish

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• That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Ak 47, Nuts

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• Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.

  Alison Jolly

  Challenges, Consciousness, Human Nature

  Alison Jolly (1999). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”

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• An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Atmosphere, Way

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• War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.

  Myles Standish

  Sweet, Military, War

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• When I started playing, I wasn't fast, I was gangly, my jumpshot was terrible.

  Oscar Robertson

  Motivational, Basketball

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• People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.

  Ann Winterton

  Meaningful, Jobs, Hunting

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• When the author walks on the stage the play is over. God is going to invade, all right...something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left? For this time it will be God without disguise...it will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Lying, Play

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• If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

  Freddie Mercury

  Music, Housewife, Cooks

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

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• McDonalds in Tokyo is a terrible revenge for Pearl Harbor.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Revenge, Mcdonalds, Pearls

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• We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Kindness, Generosity

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Fear Nothing”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

  Euripides

  Women, Fire, Sea

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• During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

  Elizabeth of the Trinity

  Thinking, Soul, Suffering

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• White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

  Joan Mitchell

  Color, White, Nurse

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• This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

  Robert Hayden

  Beautiful, Men, Air

  Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.

  Harold Urey

  Regret, Science, Should Have

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• It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.

  H. A. L. Fisher

  Christian, Years, Europe

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