Terrible Quotes - Page 39

• Pay attention to the girl, instead of myself. A bunch of people [told me that]. It's terrible. I'm very into myself, so people are always like, "Pay attention to the other person. Don't ever separate yourself." It's a good lesson. I'm learning. I'm doing good.

  Jonathan Cheban

  Girl, Good Love, People

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• Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

  Hank Green

  Believe, People, Broken

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• We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,
  but you still have to call it a birthday.

  Andrea Gibson

  People, Way, Born

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.10, SCB Distributors

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• At Girl Scouts, we are committed to raising awareness about the terrible effects of cyber bullying, and to teaching girls how to recognize the signs of bullying of any sort and extricate themselves or another from a bad situation before it spirals out of control and ends in tragedy.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Bullying, Teaching

  "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study.

  Ovadia Yosef

  Littles, Study, Natural

  "Rabbi: Hurricane punishment for pullout" by Zvi Alush, www.ynetnews.com. September 7, 2005.

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• Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.

  David Halberstam

  Fear, Brave, Secret

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• There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Hate, Book, People

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• Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

  Pierre Curie

  Powerful, War, Mean

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• I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

  John Guare

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• We’ve got to stick together, that’s all I know. We all drive each other crazy at times, but I don’t want to end up here alone, like the Hermit. Then this really would be Hell. Humans do such terrible things to each other that sometimes my brain tells me they must be evil. But my heart still isn’t convinced.
  I just hope we can survive.

  John Marsden

  Crazy, Heart, Evil

  John Marsden (1995). “Tomorrow, When the War Began”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.

  Paula Danziger

  Mistake, Growth, Important

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• I love babies. I think they are beautiful in all sorts of different ways. I try to pick up and hold a baby every day, if possible, because it nourishes me. It feeds my soul. Babies are drawn to me. And I think it's because they see me as one of them. But ... cooler and with my life put together a little bit more. If a baby were president, there would be no taxes. There would be no war. There would be no ... government, and ... things could get terrible. And actually probably it would be a better screenplay idea than a serious suggestion.

  Michael Scott

  Beautiful, Baby, War

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• Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

  Cressida Cowell

  Kings, Taken, Responsibility

  Cressida Cowell (2013). “How to Betray a Dragon's Hero”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes, they wait. Sometimes, you see the dead come in to the harbor, and their old dogs are all along the docks, wagging their tails, for they have waited for their masters and mistresses for many years. You see mothers who have missed their sons. Fathers who had never spoken of love to their children, ready to embrace them as they voyage from the end of life. It shows the lies of this world, you see. We are wrong about so many things here. Mankind has done terrible things, yet we are forgiven.

  Douglas Clegg

  Mother, Dog, Children

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• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  Ferdinand Mount

  America, People, Lasts

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• The hang clean is unweighted and is of little use to watch, except that it shows a problem known as a Donkey Kick. As the jump occurs, the heels come up in the back and then stomp back down into place. This is a terrible waste of time and energy, and contributes nothing to making the bar go up. Stop doing this immediately or I will have you killed.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Energy, Watches, Bars

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• The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.

  Paul Shepard

  Sky, Desert, Majestic

  Paul Shepard (2010). “Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature”, p.43, University of Georgia Press

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• The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Looks, Stealing

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• Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Long Ago, People

  Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want to make this sound negative at all, but in the best way possible I freaking give up. I give up. You can't try and make your life perfect. I'm just trying to have a good time, and I'm just trying to appreciate the things that I have around me. I give up on the 'dream' dream. I think that it's all a dream. I think it's all wonderful and terrible. And I give up in the nicest way.

  Fiona Apple

  Dream, Giving Up, Thinking

  "Fiona Apple: 'I Don't Really Have A Plan'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 10, 2012.

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• Money holds terrible power when it is loved

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspiring

  Elisabeth Elliot (2003). “A Path Through Suffering”, p.72, Revell

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• There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Love Is, Joy

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• Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.

  Barney Rosset

  Sex, Waiting, Example

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• Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time?
  Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

  Brian Molko

  Real, Believe, Giving

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• It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

  Anita Diament

  Remember, Forgotten, Holy

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