Terrible Quotes

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I didn't know.

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

I was in love once, and it was terrible.

I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

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.

Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.