Terrible Quotes

• The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Today
  • Fate
  • Slavery

• My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Father
  • Spirit
  • Terrible

• There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Decision
  • Consciousness
  • Solitude

• It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Vision
  • Terrible

• I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Film
  • Terrible
  • Titles

• I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

  

  William Goldman
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Night

• Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

  

  David Clement-Davies
  • Love
  • Courage
  • Darkness

• I know that sounds so circular, but for you, what you were made to do, is different than what I was made to do. But instead of spending all of our time having Bible studies about what we were made to do, go do stuff and you'll figure out what you were made to do, because you'll be great at some things and you'll be terrible at others.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Different
  • Bible
  • Stuff

• I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Feelings

• We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Live
  • Authority
  • Engine

• I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Funny
  • Painting
  • Humor

• 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
  • Prosperity
  • Wounds
  • Bills

• They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.

  

  Rhianna Pratchett
  • Reason
  • Acting
  • Position

• I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your husband is a man. A very terrible thing.

  

  Catherine Anderson
  • Husband
  • Laughing
  • Terrible Strikes

• Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a heated furnace, and there remain, living both in soul and body, than to support such a sight. And if the sea were all fire they would cast themselves therein and never leave it, if they were certain of meeting the sin on doing so.

  

  Catherine of Genoa
  • Soul
  • Support
  • Suffering

• I think racism is a terrible thing. I think we should all learn to hate each other on a individual basis.

  

  Cathy Ladman
  • Hate
  • Individual
  • Racism

• I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean, I go out and my music is roughly the format of rock and roll, I use the chord changes of rock and roll, but I don't feel I'm a rock and roll artist. I'd be a terrible rock artist, absolutely ghastly.

  

  David Bowie
  • Interest
  • Terrible
  • Jagger

• Hopefully I can just have another terrible year with only the one Grand Slam and that will be just fine.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Terrible
  • Fine

• I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • Thinking
  • Jokes
  • Defence

• I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Worst

• B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone's going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you." Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.

  

  Tim Pratt
  • Darkness
  • Hours
  • Tough

• Anything that terrible had to be healthy.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Healthy
  • Terrible

• I don't watch anything I'm in. Not even on set. I won't go over to the monitor to watch what we've just shot. It's too terrible. I think I'm just very self-conscious.

  

  Eva Green
  • Terrible
  • Self-Conscious
  • Monitor

• Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Terrible
  • Monopoly

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