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  • There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

  • It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

  • Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.

    Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
  • I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

    Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.408, Candlewick Press
  • We're not gods, Julia. We're helpers. That's all. People have called us terrible things in the past. But that was only because they didn't understand us. That understanding is for the future, a time not long from now. You may live to see it. Then perhaps you can work openly, but for now, keep your gifts to yourself. Never flaunt your abilities. Never think you hold the power of life and death. Only God has that power. When it's a person's time, nothing can save them.

    Past   Thinking   Long  
    Christopher Pike (2001). “Witch”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Thinking   Hands   Cards  
  • Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

    Evil   Sin   Terrible  
    Robert Cormier (2013). “Heroes”, p.115, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
  • You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

    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.
  • Well, God doesn't intervene in many of the situations we would like Him to because He would have to intervene in everything that we say and do that is wrong right the way through to some of the most terrible things happening in nations. What He does is He gives us signs that He is with us and that we can draw help from Him. Jesus changed water into wine. That had no function really. They had already run out of wine in the party so he was only aiding and abetting more drinking.

    Running   Jesus   Party  
  • 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.

    Running   Wall   Believe  
  • [After playing Indiana Jones and Han Solo] hero image concerns me a little, though not for my sake. All it means to me is that I have a responsibility not to get caught doing anything terrible and thereby jeopardise my credentials. Not that I do terrible things, like running over dogs or anything like that. It just makes you think twice before you say or do things in public.

    Running   Dog   Hero  
    "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.
  • He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

    Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.199, Penguin
  • Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it.

    FaceBook post by Susan Minot from Dec 16, 2013
  • 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 (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I do have a very strong sense that most of the terrible things in life happen suddenly and unpredictably, and certainly can sweep you off in different directions, and that is always of interest to a novelist.

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

  • People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

    Hurt   Lying   People  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.

    "Cambodian Road Trip". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 15, 2009.
  • The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

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

    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.180, Simon and Schuster
  • Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

    Maggie O'Farrell (2009). “After You'd Gone”, p.18, Hachette UK
  • I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.

    Dog   Cat   Two  
  • The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath you, yet love expects you to keep walking anyway, arms outstretched, one foot after the other, on nothing more than air.

    Love Is   Air   Feet  
    Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.65, Bantam
  • You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt of. All I ever dreamt of was family. A father and a mother. Most people don't even need to dream of such luxuries, they take them for granted. That is what I used to dwell on, alone in my bedroom. I dwelt as all children do, on the injustice. Injustice is the most terrible thing in the world, Oliver. Everything that is evil springs from it and only a cheap soul can abide it without anger.

    Mother   Dream   Children  
  • I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

    Greek   Feelings   Naked  
  • I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

  • Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.

    Hurt   Pain   Grief  
    Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List”, p.163, Hachette UK
  • One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

    Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.
  • It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.

    Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.120, Penguin
  • 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.

    Running   Believe   Night  
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