#terrible thing

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

#basis #became #chairman #double-digit #fed

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

— Loni Anderson

#happen #practically #related #smoking #terrible

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

#another #beneath #like #lower #mask

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

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

#author #being #both #funeral #i

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. ↗

— Helen Keller

#terrible #terrible thing #thing #vision

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#caution #great #must #terrible #terrible thing

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#begin #communal #compared #congress #covert

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#child #her #his #horrible #life

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