Terrible Quotes - Page 30

• Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.

  Mick Jagger

  Biographies, British, Pops

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• I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Exercise

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• Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Fall, Church, Disease

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• Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

  Barbara Pym

  Life Is, Terrible Things

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• Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has come now for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth and I hope that everyone will join with my doctor and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.

  Freddie Mercury

  Fighting, Order, Doctors

  Freddie Mercury's statement to the press the day before his death, November 23, 1991.

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• But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

  Jeff Bezos

  Hair, Machines, Levels

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• If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Business, Two, People

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• Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

  Edward Kennedy

  Dad, Pregnancy, History

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Errors

  Abraham Lincoln, H. Jack Lang (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches”, p.240, Stackpole Books

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• The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.

  John Coleman

  War, Textiles, Wrecks

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• Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being degenerate into deathly specters of themselves. Solitude split off from community is no longer a rich and fulfilling experience of inwardness; now it becomes loneliness, a terrible isolation. Community split off from solitude is no longer a nurturing network of relationships; now it becomes a crowd, an alienating buzz of too many people and too much noise.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Loneliness, Opposites, People

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.68, John Wiley & Sons

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• You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Talking, People

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

  Og Mandino

  Pride, Giving, Water

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• If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Memories

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• I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

  Aldous Huxley

  Heaven, Experience, Visionaries

  1956 Heaven and Hell.

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• And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.

  Holly Black

  Inspirational, Teacher, Stupid

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• Screenwriting is a terrible way to make a living and I always try to talk anyone out of it. Until you sit in a story meeting with studio executives with no particular ability or actors who haven't even graduated high school telling you exactly how to change your script, you haven't experienced what it's really like to be a screenwriter in Hollywood. Also, unlike novelists and playwrights, you don't own the copyright on your original material. It hurts when you sell a project you love and then suddenly the project you really cared about will never see the light of day.

  Amy Holden Jones

  Hurt, School, Light

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• Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

  Riccardo Muti

  Communication, Heart, Differences

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• Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

  J. I. Packer

  Criminals, Transition, Inheritance

  J. I. Packer (1997). “Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional”, Servant Publications

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• It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

  Aleister Crowley

  Crush, Country, Sex

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.213, Booklassic

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• I woke up and all I could see was Iraqis standing all around me, looking down upon me. I knew at that moment something terrible had happened and I wasn't in the right place.

  Jessica Lynch

  Moments, That Moment, Standing

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• I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Men, Waiting

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.542, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Notebook, Running, Cutting

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.

  Jon Meacham

  Determination, War, Circles

  Jon Meacham (2003). “Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship”, p.58, Random House

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• My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. For some the most terrible aspect of it was the deportations, while for others it was the leveling bombings or the mass deaths by starvation and cold.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Deportation, Cold, Mass

  Der Spiegel Interview, No. 46, 1996.

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