Top 686 Terrible Quotes

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim Carrey
When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can’t sleep at night thinking about it. It’s terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
Hans Rosling
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
Frank Ocean
Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there’s so many of them. That’s why – you know that’s why I started talking about it, so that they didn’t hear just the terrible stories.
Joan Lunden
I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
Kurt Cobain
Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We’re all bad.
Graham Parker
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Arundhati Roy
It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
Fay Vincent
In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.
Meir Kahane
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting – and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
Nigel Dennis
I’m a terrible dancer! Oh, I’m an awful dancer!
Bobby Orr
There’s a lot of terrible things goin’ on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.
Mose Allison
Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Wo

Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.
Ayelet Waldman
I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160… but to pick one: muffins. They’re imposters. They think they’re breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.
Aubrey Peeples
When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that’s also not saying much considering I’m a terrible speller.
Matt Czuchry
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Bryant H. McGill
Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the same rights as another country.
Jose Manuel Barroso
I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.
Monica Seles
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
E. M. Forster
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
Jordan Peterson
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I’ve met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I’ve had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
John Frankenheimer
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Jung
Anything done in secret is more likely to result in terrible errors.
David Brin
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
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
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
John Lothrop Motley
Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.
Don Nelson
I just hate sitting and writing – I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
Saul Kripke
Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term… If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that’s difficult to do.
Bill Maris
I was a terrible English student.
Leon Uris
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
Sophocles
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn’t really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
Carly Simon
Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
Russell Hoban
Alfred Nobel’s discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.
Pierre Curie
I have a really terrible sense of direction.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I’ve waited all my life for the computer.
Janet Fitch
On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.
Robbie Williams
I’m a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it’s like my home.
Sarah Sutton
Expanding Medicaid without fixing Medicaid is a terrible idea.
Bob McDonnell
For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society’s method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
Judy Collins
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, ‘A terrible beauty.’
Spike Milligan
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor

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
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I have a terrible sense of direction.
Elizabeth McGovern
I didn’t have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn’t going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.
Emmylou Harris
There’s every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy.
Dick Cheney
We don’t have to settle for disgraceful politics. We don’t have to settle for being as terrible as Donald Trump.
Michael Bennet
I don’t go out to parties because I’d look terrible in pictures. My escape is television – it’s like meditation to me.
Alber Elbaz
I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.
Alexander McCall Smith
I really can’t hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn’t it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
Han Suyin
We think love is noble, and in some ways, it is. But in some ways, it isn’t. Love is just love. And sometimes people do terrible things because of it.
Tara Westover
When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don’t believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.
Benoit Mandelbrot
It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.
Edward Everett Hale
Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it’s OK.
Fantastic Negrito
Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy’s advance upon this place.
John Buford
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
Jose Saramago
I’d just play ’til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn’t stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
Randy Castillo