Terrible Things Quotes - Page 13

• Guilt's a terrible thing.

  Ben Jonson

  Guilt, Terrible

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.471

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• People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

  Roxane Gay

  People, Humanity, Terrible

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

  Dorothy Parker

  Cute, Should Have, Terrible

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• [After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.

  Harrison Ford

  Running, Dog, Hero

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Greek, Feelings, Naked

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• Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

  John Cusack

  Art, Pain, Brilliant

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• One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside.

  Jamie Farr

  Temperature, Terrible

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be original. You will always be an interpreter." (Laughs) I thought, "Oh my God." You know, I had to live with that on my back for [all my life].

  Andy Serkis

  Laughing, Aries, Remember

  Source: collider.com

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• Full House was a show that was done for ten-year-olds. The critics hated it. They said terrible, terrible things about it. But it should have been reviewed by ten-year-olds. That's who it was made for. They loved it. And if they loved it, great. Why the hell does a fifty-year-old guy working at a big newspaper have to tell me I'm a piece of crap?

  Bob Saget

  Should Have, Years, Guy

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• A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

  Berkeley Breathed

  Mind, Apes, Evolution

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• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  Nancy Reagan

  Wise, Men, Doors

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• The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a long time, and yes, there obviously are people who disagree with policy who talk to me, but it's less axes to grind than people who are really motivated. One of the terrible things about this Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news.

  Seymour Hersh

  Axes, Funny Things, Long

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Well, God doesn't intervene in many of the situations we would like Him to because He would have to intervene in everything that we say and do that is wrong right the way through to some of the most terrible things happening in nations. What He does is He gives us signs that He is with us and that we can draw help from Him. Jesus changed water into wine. That had no function really. They had already run out of wine in the party so he was only aiding and abetting more drinking.

  Gerald Coates

  Running, Jesus, Party

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• Everything was so designed by Hannibal to break down Will in the first season, until Will's sanity became questionable. It's so much easier to believe that somebody losing their mind is capable of terrible things than it is to consider Frasier Crane, a charming, fun doctor who invites you to dinner. If you put those two in a police lineup, you're going to pick the guy who's melting down.

  Bryan Fuller

  Fun, Believe, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  War, Mean, Epidemics

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• What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

  Moliere

  Men, Wicked, Aristocracy

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• Self-confidence is a terrible, terrible thing; it's also the most attractive thing.

  Guy Branum

  Self Confidence, Attractive Things, Terrible

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

  Johan Huizinga

  Bridges, Progress, Earth

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• Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mother, Strong, Betrayal

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• You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

  Anderson Cooper

  Work, Community, Suffering

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• Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

  Chris Prentiss

  Thinking, Ideas, Disease

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.107, BookBaby

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• We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

  Alan Watts

  Suffering, Culture, Disease

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• Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Book, Blessing, Events

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• To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

  Orson Scott Card

  Two, Choices, Terrible

  Orson Scott Card (1992). “The Worthing Saga”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Book, Waste, Terrible

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