#terrible thing

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. ↗

— Maria Callas

#haven #life #rock #side #terrible

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#before #being #first #gone #had

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#finish #impossible #more #picture #terrible

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. ↗

— Sophocles

#terrible #terrible thing #thing #well #wrong

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing. ↗

— George Carey

#condemn #deal #great #great deal #israelis

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#find #quest #terrible #terrible thing #thing

Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#happen #practically #related #smoking #terrible

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#closest #dying #eight #friends #getting

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#terrible #terrible thing #thing #ugly #woman

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

#being #character #ever #finest #happening