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.
There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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.
I left the band because I developed a terrible fear of flying.
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.
The British have always made terrible parents.
One of my favorite things in books is watching someone make the mistake. You know it's going to happen. You keep thinking: 'Don't do it!' But of course they're going to do it. It's riveting. You learn through them that it's okay. It's the ecstatic fall, where you watch someone make that terrible decision, and there's such pleasure in it.
I think these are terrible times to be anything in.
I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
This is what I always wanted to do in my entire life, so I am not going to sit here and complain that it is so terrible to be in successful movies, because it becomes a trilogy!
There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.
9/11 was a terrible, horrific, tragic day.
It's a terrible poison, writing.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.
Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
Some people have a terrible stretch between family and work. It is a difficult thing to achieve.
