Terrible Quotes - Page 38

• I see no light behind that terrible curtain. I do not think one religion better than another and I think the Christian religion has brought far more misery crime and suffering far more tyranny and evil than any other.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Christian, Thinking, Light

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• The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

  Jared Cohen

  Freak, Century, Terrible Times

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• I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and the full moon rise over Mont Blanc; but the fairest vision on which these eyes ever looked was the flag of my country in a foreign land. Beautiful as a flower to those who hate it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and glory, and the honor, of fifty million Americans.

  George Frisbie Hoar

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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• Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

  Janet Malcolm

  Heart, Giving, Novelists

  Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.70, Vintage

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• To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.

  John Cowper Powys

  Book, Mean, People

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• Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

  Dana Spiotta

  School, Trying, Acting

  "In 'Arabia,' Writing Life As You Wish You'd Lived It". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 22, 2011.

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• Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.

  Gary Lutz

  Might, Matter, Wheels

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• We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, air, thinnest air. And so we revolve around each other and our dreams collide. Look out the window in any weather. We are part of all that glamour, drama, change, and should not be ashamed.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Dream, Drama, Air

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• Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

  Mark Lawrence

  Dream, Fear, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.74, Penguin

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• What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

  Danny Wallace

  Moments, Terrible Things

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• Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

  George du Maurier

  Lovely, Female, Shapes

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.32, Booklassic

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• Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

  Ansel Elgort

  Actors, Young, Models

  "Boy Meets World: Carrie's Ansel Elgort Plays Muse" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should disavow the failures of feminism without disavowing its many successes and how far we have come.

  Roxane Gay

  Mean, People, Humanity

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Hands, Sins Not

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.

  Buck 65

  Giving, Water, Choices

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• To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Life, Wall, Walking Away

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• When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

  Paula Deen

  People, Feelings, Done

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• Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Government, Liberty

  "The Illusion of Safety". thehill.com. August 22, 2011.

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• When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.

  Henry Blackaby

  Spiritual, People, Profound

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• Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.

  George Downame

  Temptation, Unseen, Affliction

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• We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

  Ramsey Clark

  Reality, Government, Ideas

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• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. 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. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Errors

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.330, Fordham Univ Press

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• For the person that wrote that, were they involved with anything last year that was as culturally significant as the Yeezus tour or that album? ... The bar was terrible, and the wedding planner didn't approve it with me. I was having issues with this wedding planner the entire time on approvals, and I get there and they threw some weird plastic bar there.

  Kanye West

  Years, Issues, Albums

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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• You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Broken Heart, Angel, Night

  Anna Akhmatova, “You Thought I Was That Type”

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• We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mean, People, Advice

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