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  • Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
  • There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
  • People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.
  • I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
  • We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
  • Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
  • I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
  • Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.
  • The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
  • Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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  • Mother Teresa Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bill Dickey 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.'
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Audre Lorde All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Wallace Stevens As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Billy Graham Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Auberon Waugh Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
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  • Bill Kurtis Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bill Gates Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Oscar Wilde Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Virgil Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Tom Stoppard Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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