Terrible Quotes - Page 29

• I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about

  Jung Chang

  Thinking, Past, People

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• Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

  Don Nelson

  Team, Fighting, Guy

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• There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...

  Vasily Grossman

  Brother, Husband, Father

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• Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history; that unless we have influence and power, disproportionate to our small numbers - immoral results will occur. We need power. And we must continue to use our power. Power which we earned, power which no one gave us on a silver platter, power which we worked hard for - use that power in the interests of justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Silver Platter, Small Numbers, Influence And Power

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• Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America! If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way ... and our nation will pay a terrible price!

  Jerry Falwell

  Crush, Children, Men

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• I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

  Benny Hinn

  Too Much, Prosperity, Emphasis

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• When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

  Theodor Herzl

  Party, Purses, Revolutionary

  Theodor Herzl (2006). “The Jewish State”, p.23, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Google, May

  "D Day for the Techno-Elite" by Polly Labarre, www.fastcompany.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

  Bo Derek

  Sex, Violence

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• I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

  Anne Enright

  Sex, Grief, Feelings

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.7, Random House

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• Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

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• When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• 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. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Believe, Night

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• Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Nostalgia, Infinite

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• In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as though they perished. But now that the Savior has raised his body, death is no longer terrible; for all who believe in Christ trample on it as it were nothing and choose rather to die than deny their faith in Christ. And that devil that once maliciously exulted in death, now that its pains were loosed, remained the only one truly dead.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Pain, Believe, Devil

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• Empathy is one of our highest human skills and holds families and societies together. Feeling connected to other people is probably the deepest satisfaction we will ever know. How terrible for children who are being brought up without that capacity.

  Sue Gerhardt

  Children, Skills, People

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• The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

  Heinrich Heine

  Passion, People, Insulting

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• Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

  Sextus Empiricus

  Two, Anxiety, Disease

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• Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

  Kim Carnes

  Acting, Would Be

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• It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

  Sparky Anderson

  Lying, Team, Winning

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• People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

  James D. Watson

  Girl, Thinking, People

  "Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer" by Shaoni Bhattacharya, www.newscientist.com. February 28, 2003.

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• An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

  Ross Macdonald

  Gun, Ugly, Terrible Things

  Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.230, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

  Paula Poundstone

  Memories, Loss, Thinking

  "Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In". TV Movie, November 7, 2006.

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• For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

  Lois Lowry

  Punishment, Community, Decision

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Self Esteem, Book, Taught

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