#terrible

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ↗

— Plato

#being #cleverness #entire #evil #extreme

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

#all things #bad #cleverness #evil #excessive

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. ↗

— Colin Powell

#form #gave #got #government #iraqi

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#because #date #everything #horrible #i

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#football #football season #forget #how #like

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days. ↗

— Rachael Ray

#birthday #cake #cried #days #four

People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#become #door #funeral #get #god

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#deepest #everything #help #helpless #perhaps

The Katrina matter was terrible. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#matter #terrible

Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#because #environmentalism #happens #left #right