#terrible

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ↗

— Erica Jong

#hands #happens #life #own #take

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#career #everything #good #good work #hope

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#events #liars #make #own #people

I'm always champing at the bit to try everything new. It's a terrible quality that I have. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bit #everything #i #new #quality

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#decent #dreams #finals #goal #goals

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#fond #grow #should #terrible #too

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#driven #i #i think #kill #must

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#always #answer #bad #bad thing #because

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy. ↗

— George Sidney

#happy #i #know #live #lived

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communist #either #i #indeed #legal