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The waist is a terrible thing to mind. -- Tom Wilson
The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt. -- Brigid Berlin
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. -- Helen Keller
An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing. -- Ross MacDonald
Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you. -- Loni Anderson
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -- Erica Jong
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. -- J. K. Rowling
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. -- Alberto Giacometti
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. -- Dan Quayle
I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do. -- Alan Dershowitz
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. -- Arthur Miller
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. -- Leo Tolstoy
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. -- Paul A. Volcker
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. -- Terry Waite
Bullying is never fun, it's a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever. -- Raini Rodriguez
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. -- Sparky Anderson
I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing. -- Phil McGraw
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. -- Katherine Mansfield
The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options. -- Robert Webb
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. -- Anthony Bourdain
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. -- Hypatia
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. -- Terry Pratchett
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'? -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Denis Leary
Guilt's a terrible thing. -- Ben Jonson
War is a terrible, bloody thing. -- Katlyn Charlesworth
Love is a wonderful, terrible thing -- William Shakespeare
Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing. -- Robert Carlyle
Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing. -- P. T. Barnum
Interest is a terrible thing to waste. -- Roger Schank
Justice is a terrible but necessary thing. -- Jessamyn West
For the truth is a terrible thing. -- Robert Penn Warren
What a terrible thing life can be. -- Jeff Lindsay
Chaos is a terrible thing to waste. -- Rush Limbaugh
A film is a terrible thing to waste. -- Roger Ebert
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. -- Paul Romer
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. -- Dan Quayle
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. -- Paul Romer
A mime is a terrible thing to waste. -- Marcel Marceau
Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God? -- Dylan Thomas
A mind is a terrible thing; waste it. -- Brad Blanton
Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing. -- Elizabeth Ferrars
Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it. -- Rupert Murdoch
To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing, -- Hypatia
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The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts. -- Anjelica Huston
Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world. -- Jorge Amado
Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste. -- Alton Brown
What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! -- Leo Tolstoy
I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing. -- Edith Konecky
What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind... -- Dan Quayle
It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. -- Sophocles
What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. -- Yann Martel
An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing. -- Ross MacDonald
The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. -- Jean Renoir
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. -- Edward R. Murrow
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. -- Pete Townshend
Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. -- Kirk Douglas
A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss. -- Christopher Hitchens
In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste. -- Marilyn Johnson
A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. -- Winston S. Churchill
What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go. -- Danny Wallace
Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away? -- Kate Morton
To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself. -- Marie Bashkirtseff
Self-confidence is a terrible, terrible thing; it's also the most attractive thing. -- Guy Branum
It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy. -- John Dyer
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny. -- Andre Malraux
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Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible. -- Jane Austen
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs. -- Tennessee Williams
What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man. -- Moliere
The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. -- Remy de Gourmont
Time is a terrible thing because it can erase both joys and pains. -- Gosho Aoyama
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous. -- George Bernard Shaw
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. -- Grace Paley
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny. -- Brandon Sanderson
Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this. -- Joe Meno
The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you. -- Paul Washer
Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen. -- Terry Pratchett
It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd. -- Marilyn Monroe
I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn't have any. -- Bob Dole
time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time. -- Gosho Aoyama
I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense. -- Dorothy Parker
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them. -- Louis C. K.
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected. -- Wolfgang Pauli
I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing. -- Cillian Murphy
In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. -- Jean Renoir
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. -- Alice Walker
The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse. -- Countee Cullen
The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything. -- Cosima Wagner
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. -- Lev Grossman
Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing. -- Andre Leon Talley
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. -- Martin Scorsese
Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. -- J. B. Smoove
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting. -- Heinrich Heine
That's the most terrible thing about being a child; you're convinced that it's all your fault. Lulu -- Ruth Reichl
This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth. -- Robert Hayden
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much. -- Charles Frazier
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pocketknives are kind of drifting out of our cultural consciousness, which I think is a terrible thing. -- Gever Tulley
The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night. -- Katharine Hepburn
It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad -- Terry Pratchett
Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve. -- Julie Walters
It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing. -- Anita Diament
Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. -- Desi Arnaz
I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess. -- Julia Kent
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE! -- Berkeley Breathed
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -- Erica Jong
I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman. -- Richard Russo
Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love. -- Corra May Harris
Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing. -- Keith Olbermann
You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells. -- Geraldine Ferraro
Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it. -- Geoff Dyer
The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. -- J. K. Rowling
Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive. -- Cecelia Ahern

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