Terrible Quotes

• Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

  

  Plato
  • Evil
  • Ignorance
  • Terrible

• Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Know
  • Friendship

• How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

  

  Sophocles
  • Wisdom
  • Terrible
  • Benefit

• It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

  

  Sophocles
  • Speak
  • Wrong
  • Terrible

• It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.

  

  Ezekiel Emanuel
  • Die
  • Infant
  • Adolescent

• Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • Time
  • Human being

• 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

• When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

  

  Monica Bellucci
  • Relationship
  • Someone
  • Anymore

• "To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing."

  

  Hypatia
  • Terrible
  • Truths
  • Superstitions

• I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there's always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student's poem is terrible or quite wonderful.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Honest
  • Wonderful
  • Students

• In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.

  

  Judy Holliday
  • Dog
  • Expression
  • Disguise

• You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Book
  • Care

• I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Great
  • Free
  • Morning

• I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Secret

• I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Passion
  • Humanity
  • Terrible

• You don't get a lot of life milestones in show business. It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something. With Mr. Show, I was only a writer and we knew we were going into the movie, and we thought, "Okay, like Monty Python, we're going to make five movies." And we didn't know it was the end. So it ended up being a bummer and such a terrible ending for Mr. Show. We never got to feel like, "Wow, we did it! We did something."

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Movies
  • Difficult
  • Milestone

• Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Thinking
  • Nice
  • Audience

• Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Terrible
  • Lifestyle
  • Buddy

• Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

  

  Isabel Paterson
  • Terrible
  • Individualist
  • Nonentity

• It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

  

  Maria Callas
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Terrible

• I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty - yet it's always the worst time to have lived here.

  

  Dara O Briain
  • Comedy
  • Poverty
  • Crime

• Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Today
  • Kind
  • Christian

• Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

  

  William Devane
  • Actors
  • Shows
  • Terrible

• I hate watching myself. It's terrible. It's horrifying.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Terrible
  • Watching
  • Horrifying

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