Quotes of: Terrible-thing Keyword

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

Laughable Loves

Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of a good party!

The Likelihood of Lucy

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

Les Misérables

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

London's Overthrow

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Life of Pi

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

The Solitaire Mystery

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Dead. Even in the silence of my mind I cannot think the word. I cannot acknowledge this most obvious and terrible of truths.

Outlanders

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Poems of Akhmatova

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

The Romeo And Juliet Code

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. - MATTHEW 7:15

Terrible Lies

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

Travels With Myself

Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.

The Wanderess

If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.

We Need New Names

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

War and Peace

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

Zen in the Art of Writing

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Johnny Vegas

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Len Wein

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Mary Wesley

You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.

Paul Tsongas

Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.

Down and Out in Paris and London