Horrible Quotes - Page 25

• Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Doubt, Tennyson, Happened

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The world is full of horrible things.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  World, Horrible Things

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• Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us

  Assata Shakur

  Hate, Support You, Issues

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

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• When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Gay, Needs, Messages

  "Showbiz Tonight", www.cnn.com. February 29, 2008.

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• In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

  Jim Costa

  Children, People, Crime

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• Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.

  Svetlana Zakharova

  Thinking, Ballet, One Day

  "Bolshoi Prima ballerina's grace under pressure" by Lianne Turner, George Webster, www.cnn.com. September 21, 2012.

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• The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you.

  Geneen Roth

  Live Life, Earthquakes, Missing

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• It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Struggle, Purpose, Exhausted

  1908 Of the final moments of the 1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. If we took just five minutes to recognize each other's beauty instead of attacking each other for our differences - that's not hard - it's really an easier and better way to live.

  Ellen Page

  Differences, Effort, World

  "Time to Thrive". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2014.

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• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

  Philip Pullman

  Sex, Book, Kids

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• As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

  Jessica Zafra

  Mistake, Long, Lessons

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.

  Eben Alexander

  Powerful, Love Picture, Evil

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

  Oscar Wilde

  Order, Evil, Use

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1034, GENERAL PRESS

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• I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Moving, Sitting, Research

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• Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.

  Patricia Kaas

  Sky, Wake Up, Sometimes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Summer, Sleep, Car

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.105, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

  Richard Siken

  Forgiving, Staring

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• The thing is, you don't even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who the f--- cares? Like if somebody tells me, 'Oh, you look curvier.' That should not be a diss. The fact is, we live in a time where that is a diss. It's horrible we can be like, 'You look so skinny,' and someone's like, 'Thank you!' That's horrible. That's equally as horrible to me. So the time we live in, it's upsetting.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Mad, Upset, Want

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• I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Running, Stupid, Mean

  Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.183, Macmillan

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• War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Smart, Mean

  "Untold Truths About the American Revolution" by Howard Zinn, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 20, 2009.

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• The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

  Jay Leno

  Games, People, Water

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• Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.

  Hamid Karzai

  Hurt, People, Justice

  "Afghan capital optimistic 6 months later" By Rose Arce, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2002.

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• After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  World, Care, Innocence

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• One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Mean, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.20, Advaita Ashrama

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• I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

  Richard Widmark

  Character, Play, Racist

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