Terrible Things Quotes - Page 8

• I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

  Andrew Fastow

  Regret, Done, Moral

  "I was very greedy, says Enron trial's star witness" by Richard Wray, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.

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• A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

  Shaun Donovan

  Waste, Crisis, Terrible

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• Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

  Michael Robotham

  Loneliness, Love You, Loss

  "Bleed for Me (Joseph O'Loughlin)". Book by Michael Robotham, 2010.

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• It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

  Laurence Harvey

  Mother, Children, Hate

  "Fictional character: Raymond Shaw". "The Manchurian Candidate", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our submissiveness we make it so.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Mean, Land

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

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• No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Hands, People

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• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  Garry Trudeau

  Character, Writing, Entertainment

  "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007.

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• A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

  Dan Quayle

  Intelligence, Mind, Waste

  Dan Quayle (1995). “Standing Firm: A Vice-presidential Memoir”, Harpercollins

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• What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind.

  Dan Quayle

  Mind, Terrible, Loses

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• The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Struggle, Teaching, Men

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• The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

  John Dos Passos

  New York, World, Terrible

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Wall, Believe

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• Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

  P. T. Barnum

  Judging, Publicity, Terrible

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• A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Agents, Dozen, Spirit

  "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  World, Cynicism, Reason

  "Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews".

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• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Light, Boredom

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• If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

  Meg Greenfield

  Mother, Years, Political

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• It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Wisdom, Alive

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

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• The average American child sees 20,000 murders in TV before reaching age 18. This is considered normal. Every community has video rental stores filled with multimillion-dollar films that depict people doing terrible things to each other. If you read newspapers, you have every right to believe that Bad Nasty Things compose 90 percent of the human experience. But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.

  Rob Brezsny

  Life, Children, Believe

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• The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever. This is what comes of a Protestant morality, that I, as a (thank God) typical Spaniard, found unnerving.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Believe, Night

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• The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Impossible Things, Self

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

  Sparky Anderson

  Lying, Team, Winning

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• An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

  Ross Macdonald

  Gun, Ugly, Terrible

  Ross Macdonald (2010). “The Way Some People Die”, p.230, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

  Barbara Pym

  Life Is, Terrible

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• Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

  Edward Kennedy

  Dad, Pregnancy, History

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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