Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom. That the fall of slavery is predetermined in the counsels of Omnipotence I cannot doubt; it is a part of the great moral improvement in the condition of man, attested by all the records of history. But the conflict will be terrible, and the progress of improvement perhaps retrograde before its final progress to consummation.
Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat. . . and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.
I have terrible PMS. I just went a little crazy.
Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.
This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.
It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
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. '
Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But. . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake. " "The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new. ' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music; you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic. . . fame is a terrible thing to have.
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.
My feelings about myself have been terrible.
When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.