Terrible Quotes

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.