Terrible Quotes

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn

Give, Born, Affection

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness, Feeling, Poverty

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill

True, Lies, Worst

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.
Oscar Wilde

Strength, Courage, Tell

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde

Hope, Last, Suspense

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Lois Wyse

Mother, True, Children

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
Marilyn Monroe

Hurt, Sometimes, Tell

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.
Eminem

Person, Mean, Sometimes

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut

Today, Loneliness, Young

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc

Life, Live, Sacrifice

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.
Plato

Learning, Ignorance, Greatest

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen

Education, School, Teachers

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Jung

Beautiful, Woman, Rule

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II

Lie, Worse, Excuse

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty, God, Heart

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Depression, Artist

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato

Great, Learning, Ignorance

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama

Children, Together, Moment

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
Bob Dylan

Same, Song, Singing

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance, Nothing, Action

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh

Religion, Stars, Word

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.
Erma Bombeck

Mother, Die, Said

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Vincent Van Gogh

Storm, Reason, Sea

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.
Katharine Hepburn

Mother, Job, Made

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing, Activity, Insight

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
Warren Buffett

Today, Nothing, Value

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

Women, Men, Experience

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

War, Grow, Fond

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

Change, Problem, Needs

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