"Terrible" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Terrible"

"Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time."

--- A. Lee Martinez

#Terrible #Made #Errors

"It's a terrible poison, writing."

--- A. S. Byatt

#Terrible #Writing #Poison

"Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe."

--- A.A. Attanasio

#Terrible #Being Human #Loneliness

"And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it."

--- Abigail Williams

#Breathe #Terrible #Salem Witch Trials

"In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible."

--- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Guilty #Terrible #Responsible

"We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Terrible #War #Long

"War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Terrible #War #Magnitude

"The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Terrible #Erring #War

"When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation."

--- Abraham Verghese

#Thinking #Mean #Terrible

"The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. [...] That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia."

--- Adam Gopnik

#Creation #Fear #Our Time

"The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers."

--- Adam Gopnik

#Terrible #New York #Drinkers

"I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie."

--- Adam McKay

#People #Thinking #Terrible

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

--- Adam Rex

#Crisps #Terrible #Fashion And Style

"The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world."

--- Adam Schiff

#Apocalyptic #Terrible #Cold

"...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Terrible #Justice #Race

"The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I'm terrible at writing overtly political poems."

--- Adrian Matejka

#Terrible #Bigotry #Kids

"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

#Realizing #Reason #Terrible

"We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama."

--- Adrienne Rich

#Terrible #Mere #Nostalgia

"Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away."

--- Adyashanti

#Terrible #Knowledge #Causes

"A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future."

--- Aga Khan IV

#Terrible #Better Future #Bridges

""I think you're begging the question," said Haydock, "and I can see looming ahead one of those terrible exercises in probability where six men have white hats and six men have black hats and you have to work it out by mathematics how likely it is that the hats will get mixed up and in what proportion. If you start thinking about things like that, you would go round the bend. Let me assure you of that!""

--- Agatha Christie

#Thinking #Terrible #Looming

"The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows."

--- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

#Terrible #Soul #Sorrow

"The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible."

--- Ai Weiwei

#People #Terrible #Youtube

"How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Terrible #God #Preacher

"Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Terrible #Fall #Church Of Christ

"I say that a Christian congregation can survive and often appear to prosper in the community by the exercise of human talent and without any touch from the Holy Spirit! All that religious activity and the dear people will not know anything better until the great and terrible day when our self-employed talents are burned with fire and only that which was wrought by the Holy Ghost will stand forever!"

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#People #Terrible #Congregation

"The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Terrible #Heal #Draws

"You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame"

--- Aimee Mann

#Terrible #Bird #Sweet

"But ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public."

--- Akira Kurosawa

#People #Defenseless #Terrible

"I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge deficit, that he armed the Mujahideen, that he armed Saddam, that he armed Iran, that he armed two-thirds of the Axis of Evil, and that he funded terrorists in Central America. He was, in my mind, a terrible president."

--- Al Franken

#Thinking #Terrible #Facts

30 "Terrible" Quotes