#terrible

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#also #dreams #else #generous #includes

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#any #defend #defense #even #grave

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#atomic bomb #bomb #damage #desolation #eden

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#assumptions #communism #during #era #evolved

I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#always #blessing #deciding #defect #everything

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. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#atomic #common #community #dark #darkens

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#american #american history #anyone #anything #beautiful

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. ↗

— Emile Zola

#daily #deadlines #forges #style #terrible

I was a terrible English student. ↗

— Leon Uris

#i #student #terrible

Oh, I'm terrible at travel. ↗