Terrible Things Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Talking, People

  Said to David F. Boyd at the Louisiana State Seminary on December 24, 1860. "The Civil War: A Book of Quotations" by Robert Blaisdell, 2004.

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• I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Done, Terrible, Particles

  "Foreword" by Frederick Reines to "Spaceship Neutrino" by Christine Sutton, (p. xi), 1992.

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• I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Thinking, Light, Obsessed

  Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.

  Dawn Fraser

  Upset, Rivals, Used

  "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. January 11, 2002.

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• A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

  Denise Mina

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

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• Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

  George Vaillant

  Fun, Giving, Sense Of Humor

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• A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marcel Marceau

  Waste, Terrible, Mime

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• Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

  Andrew Klavan

  Soul, Might, Matter

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• My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

  Joseph Epstein

  Regret, Wife, Atheism

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

  Hypatia

  Superstitions, Truth Is, Terrible

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• Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?

  Stuart Neville

  Hurt, Hate, Stupid

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• You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

  Adam Rex

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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• We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Thinking, Hands, Cards

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• There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

  Terence Fisher

  Loss, Preparation, Important

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• 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, Rugged, Right Now

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• Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

  Paul Volcker

  Double Standard, Feds, Terrible

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• A champion is suppose to hate to lose, and it wasn't like I was ever crazy about the idea. But I learned to deal with losing without having my spirit or confidence broken, which would help immensely over time, not just in the big picture but even in specific matches when I found myself in a jam. Fear of losing is a terrible thing.

  Pete Sampras

  Hate, Crazy, Ideas

  Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo (2008). “A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis”, p.25, Crown Archetype

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• You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hypocrisy, Shy, Politics

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 19, 2004.

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• The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.

  Cosima Wagner

  Love, Happy Love, Terrible

  Cosima Wagner, Martin Gregor-Dellin, Dietrich Mack, Geoffrey Skelton (1978). “Cosima Wagner's Diaries: 1869-1877”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

  Joan Robinson

  Growth, Economic, Terrible

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• Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

  Margot Kidder

  Giving, Scary, Spooky

  Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

  Jerry Coleman

  Wall, Stupidity, Way

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• If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Morning, Brother, Lying

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

  Danny Wallace

  Moments, Terrible

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