I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.
If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.
Perception in the eye of vengeance becomes blurred. Ren was in need of a slap on the face, but I knew what was coming and that it would do the job properly.
I almost feel bad for declining, but I feel more terrible that I can’t stop looking at how his chest rises and falls with each of his frustrated breaths.
Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.
Would you mind terribly if instead of serving desert, I masturbated quietly at the dinner table? I’m training for Congress.
The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.
He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible.
I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.
I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.
My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly
I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.
