Terrible Quotes - Page 32

• Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

  Wilder Penfield

  Hate, Brain, Different

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

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• The whole of organic nature on our planet exists only by a relentless war of all against all. ... The raging war of interests in human society is only a feeble picture of an unceasing and terrible war of existence which reigns throughout the whole of the living world.

  Ernst Haeckel

  War, World, Reign

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• I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Fiction, Imagine, Convenient

  Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.228, Macmillan

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• And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love Is, Treasure, Want

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• The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's a place of tide and tantrum; of flirtations among fresh- and saltwaters, forests and shores; of tense negotiations with an ocean that gives much but demands more. Every year the raw rim that is this coast gets hammered and reshaped like molten bronze. This place roils with power and a sometimes terrible beauty. The coast remains youthful, daring, uncertain about tomorrow. The guessing, the risk; in a way, we're all thrill seekers here.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Reality, Years

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• I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

  Dawn Fraser

  Upset, Rivals, Used

  "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. January 11, 2002.

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• When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Political, Honor, Progress

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• We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

  Dario Fo

  Italian, Expression, Church

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• I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Selfish, Thinking, Evil

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community.

  Larry Crabb

  Mistake, Healing, Psych

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.

  Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

  Running, Exercise, Night

  "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.

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• The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

  Vernon Howard

  People, Helping, Morality

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• A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

  Ron Rash

  World, Happened

  Ron Rash (2009). “Serena”, p.273, Canongate Books

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• A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

  Denise Mina

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

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• I don't believe in Gods and devils. I think it's man-made stories to try and help people understand where all this came from. They said 'Where did the world come from if there's no God', 'Where did life come from'. Just say 'I don't know'.  Don't say some guy made a man and a woman. You have no business doing that, you know what I mean? And then He got mad and flooded the whole world; told Noah to build an arc. These are terrible stories.

  Jacque Fresco

  Business, Believe, Mean

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• Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

  Bud Selig

  Baseball, Stars, America

  "Quotes from congressional steroid hearing". The Associated Press, NBC Sports, March 17, 2005.

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• I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

  Diana Vreeland

  Age, My Birthday, Remember

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Parents, you know, can be terrible.

  Diana Vreeland

  Parent, Knows

  Diana Vreeland (2011). “D.V.”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.

  Carl Icahn

  Jobs, Guy, Kind

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• Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

  Robert Plant

  Albums, Would Be, Solo

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• You know what it would just be amazing to be remembered, you know like a mum telling a daughter ‘the boyband of my time, One Direction, they just had fun and they’re just normal guys but terrible, terrible dancers.’

  Louis Tomlinson

  Daughter, Fun, One Direction

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• Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Soccer, Rocks, Fans

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 22, 2014.

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• It’s terrible to lie in chains,
  To rot in dungeon deep,
  But it’s still worse, when you are free
  To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

  Taras Shevchenko

  Lying, Sleep, Dungeons

  Taras Shevchenko (1964). “Selected works; poetry and prose”

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• A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

  Bill Dickey

  Baseball, Jobs, Yankees

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

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• Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

  Octave Mirbeau

  Flower, Like Love, Violent

  "Torture Garden".

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