Terrible Quotes - Page 31

• It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Hands, Gold

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• If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Thinking, Virginia

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• The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loose. The vices are, indeed, let loose, and they wander and do damage. But the virtues are let loose also; and the virtues wander more wildly, and the virtues do more terrible damage. The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Religious, Evil

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

  Stefan Zweig

  Humans, Knows, Human Beings

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.64, Pushkin Press

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• It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

  Arthur Schnitzler

  Memories, Writing, Easy

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• The Iraqis had paid a terrible price for Saddam's folly (in the Gulf War). But looking at the devastation they left behind (in Kuwait), my sympathy was limited.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Kuwait, Devastation

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• An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ordinary, Fool, Hocus Pocus

  Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.284, Random House

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• It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful...

  Howard Barker

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

  Howard Barker (2004). “Death, The One and the Art of Theatre”, p.105, Routledge

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• How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.

  Jenny Valentine

  Life, Storm, Wrecks

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• I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Thinking, Light, Obsessed

  Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, Mind, Sticks

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• I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

  Karl Kraus

  Vision, Saws, Literature

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Blow, Iron

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• It's hard to say. Sometimes people have had terrible childhoods. And sometimes they just haven't found their special place in life. And sometimes they're dogs from hell and must be destroyed.

  Charles Addams

  Dog, People, Childhood

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• George Lucas should have distributed the 'source code' to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.

  Gabe Newell

  Stars, War, Should Have

  "It's A Mod, Mod Underworld" by Victoria Barret, www.forbes.com. December 12, 2005.

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• I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

  Og Mandino

  Crime, Lows, Commit

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam

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• It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

  Jose Marti

  Liberty, Speak, Without You

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• It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

  John Keegan

  Quality, Diplomats, Compromise

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• I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Axes, Iran

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• I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

  Carly Simon

  Speak

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• Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, Philosophy, Smart

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• The church has paid a terrible price for statistics!

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Statistics, Paid

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• Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Dog, Faces, Driving

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• I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was from. Why I didn’t go to Steve Jobs and say, ‘Steve, let’s figure out how you can come back and lead your company.’ I didn’t do that, it was a terrible mistake on my part. I can’t figure out why I didn’t have the wisdom to do that. But I didn’t. And as life has it, shortly after that, I was fired.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, New York, Mistake

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