Top 70 Terrible Thing Quotes

Renowned people from all fields receive unnecessary flak so often. Anonymity is misused, and it is a terrible thing to want to break somebody’s spirit.

I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it’s not a solo occupation.

Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it’s wonderful. If it starts eating away at you, and they’re waiting for more from me, or what can I do to top this, then you’re in trouble. Just do what you love. That’s all I want to do.

Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing.

Reality TV, although I’m a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It’s a terrible thing to do.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I’ve done in the past. I think that’s not a terrible thing, because if you don’t do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

It’s a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I’m very ADD, and my report card always said, ‘If only she performed to her potential.’

It’s a terrible thing to say, and I probably shouldn’t say it, but I’m a lazy person when it comes to physical exertion. I don’t like gyms unless I need to for a movie or a part or a show.

My father’s death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

They’re taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that’s a terrible thing.

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

I’m industrious. Ambitious. I’m like the gay Mitt Romney… That’s a terrible thing to say.

It’s a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you’re supposed to like it.

Any sort of bullying is a terrible thing, but I think online bullying is so much worse because it’s psychological bullying.

I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‘unhappy is the family that contains an author’?

It’s a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it’s a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.

You don’t just get to show up in Washington and, because a terrible thing has happened to you, that you get to jump up and scream and yell.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

We have to defeat them on the battlefield and in the marketplace of ideals. And PBS, I believe, owed the nation the chance to hear the moderate Muslim voices who decry terrorism and Jihadism, and they didn’t give them that chance, and that’s a terrible thing.

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

When expressions of emotion are dangerous, and when you are constantly told that this terrible thing is being done for your own good, you quickly learn to hide your true feelings, even from yourself.

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.

I think it’s a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It’s a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that’s not the only reason to work. You couldn’t have paid me not to write.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

I certainly direct with confidence even if I’m not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it’s not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you’re confident, then they’re confident.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they’re evil – I think it’s a terrible thing to do.

That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It’s a terrible thing to have to admit, and you’re not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it’s different when you have your own. It wasn’t for me, though.

It’s a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else’s tragedy.

Social media can really just be a terrible thing sometimes, and people don’t really understand that.

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 a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit’s have, that their team won’t win it this year. But it’s better than lying to them.

It’s a terrible thing to say I know. I’ve only done what I wanted to do. It’s a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I’ve wanted to live. I’m very, very happy.

When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

It’s a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Any person in a relationship has to see what they gain from those things and if it’s worth what you have to sacrifice to be in a relationship. I don’t think that’s a terrible thing.

There’s nothing I don’t know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you’ll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing – and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.

If I’ve got to have a stroke or a heart attack, I’d rather have a heart attack. I don’t think that’s the only reason I campaign for the Stroke Association, but a stroke would be a terrible thing.

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The word ‘divorce’ wasn’t foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn’t seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that’s why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn’t.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

Shame on me if I don’t try to do more with what I have. It would be… a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

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

It’s a terrible thing to be alone – yes it is – it is – but don’t lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath – as terrible as you like – but a mask.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.