Terrible Quotes - Page 34

• Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

  George Ayittey

  Ink, Looks, Records

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• You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.

  George Ayittey

  People, Records, Want

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• Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

  George Vaillant

  Fun, Giving, Sense Of Humor

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• To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail, no matter how terrible. It is always easier to write a piece of fluff and leave everybody smiling. But then, the horrors of poaching would continue unchallenged?like as tent caterpillars consuming an apple orchard, our species mindlessly consumes the others of the earth. At present, the most significant hope for our planet may be knowledge, and Richard Ellis has done a heroic job in providing a large measure of that.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Jobs, Book, Writing

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• When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.

  Lynda Resnick

  Morning, Night, Shining

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• What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.

  Victor Serge

  Circles, Truth Is, Accepting

  Victor Serge (2011). “The Case of Comrade Tulayev”, p.21, New York Review of Books

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• It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

  Herman Kahn

  Mean, Views, Limits

  Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Atrocities, Ordinary, Consciousness

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.1, Basic Books

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• I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

  Kohta Hirano

  Heart, Wish, Tears

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• Choose something you like to do. I know its a cliche, and youve heard it over and over. But the reason is, youre going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.

  Bill Kurtis

  Long, Life Is, Cliche

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• A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marcel Marceau

  Waste, Mime, Terrible Things

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• Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.

  Chelsea Handler

  Heartache, Focus, Important

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.52, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

  Beth Henley

  Beautiful, Swings, Funny Things

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.

  Whitney Cummings

  Eye, Bags, Looks

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• Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

  Andrew Klavan

  Soul, Might, Matter

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• Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

  David Wright

  Baseball, Games, Another Day

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• I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

  Rosanne Cash

  Real, Thinking, Get Better

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• I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

  Lance Mountain

  Fun, Real, Skateboarding

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• Sure, it was terrible and all, but you have to ask yourself: If the whole city was flooded, why couldn't they just swim to safety?

  Zach Braff

  Cities, Safety, Swim

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• It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.

  Zach Braff

  Half, Shows, Ifs

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• My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

  Joseph Epstein

  Regret, Wife, Atheism

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

  Marvin Minsky

  Typewriters, Trying, Sound

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• In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]

  Dani Shapiro

  Country, Lonely, Husband

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• As for me, I've chosen to follow a simple course: Come clean. And wherever possible, live your life in a way that won't leave you tempted to lie. Failing that, I'd rather be disliked for who I truly am than loved for who I am not. So, I tell my story. I write it down. I even publish it. Sometimes this is a humbling experience. Sometimes it's embarrassing. But I haul around no terrible secrets.

  Joyce Maynard

  Lying, Writing, Simple

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• I object. I object to any killing at all. You know, it's terrible what happened and I think retaliation definitely makes sense and it's definitely one option. But, personally, I prefer peace. You know, maybe I'm just being ignorant and shortsighted, you know, it's true I'm not running the government, I'm not running the United States. I just don't think that killing people is a good way to remedy people dying. Martin Luther King Jr. said that you can murder a murderer but you can never murder murder itself.

  Tre Cool

  Running, Kings, Thinking

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