#terri

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#flaw #i #i think #insecure #insecurities

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#borne #engine #excellent #fire #formidable

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#laugh #make #people #positive #positive thing

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#disease #keep #people #silly #terrible

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. ↗

— Claire Danes

#afraid #art #art history #because #boring

I'm not terribly sentimental. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#sentimental #terribly

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#almost #also #comprehension #develop #find

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

— Brian Eno

#anything #enough #far #future #i