Terrible Things Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love is a wonderful, terrible thing

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is, Wonderful, Terrible

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• In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Art, Quality, Impossible

  "Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets". Book by Joel Shatzky, ‎Michael Taub, p. 302, 1999.

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• We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.

  Veronica Rossi

  Mistake, Overcoming, Terrible

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• We always try to remember that at the end of the day, it's just cookies. Don't stress that hard, because it's a terrible thing to take home with you.

  Christina Tosi

  Life, Stress, Home

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• The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

  George Carey

  Suicide, Bombers, Plight

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". Interview with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

  Sophocles

  Shine Bright, Light, Shining

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• The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

  Stephen King

  Life, Hate, Love You

  STEPHEN KING (1977). “THE SHINING”

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• She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Life, Regret, Two

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• After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.

  Chris Priestley

  Real, Stories, May

  Chris Priestley (2010). “Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth”, p.35, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is a part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

  Pema Chodron

  Loneliness, Moving, Alive

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.

  Lionel Shriver

  Long, Enough, Release

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• Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

  Pete Townshend

  Loss, Hearing, Terrible

  "Listen (If You Can) to Pete". www.wired.com. January 04, 2006.

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• In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Tough Times, Waste, Librarian

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

  Pierre Salinger

  Children, Taken, Life Is

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• In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Commitment, Loss, Player

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity

  Richard Baxter

  Lying, Flames, Laughing

  Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”

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• I've put an umbrella in my mouth and opened it. I sat in a lemon-meringue pie. I've done terrible things to my dog with a fork.

  Steve Martin

  Dog, Pie, Done

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• People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

  Thomas A. Edison

  People, United States, Dams

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