#terrible

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

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. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible. ↗

— Kim Carnes

#i #me #terrible #would

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#discovered #either #experienced #experiencing #fragility

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#life #literature #more #terrible

What you really remember at the beginning was that you have to throw a budget together. We made some terrible mistakes at the beginning in my own budget that took us at least a year to catch up on. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#budget #catch #get together #least #made

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#feeling #loneliness #most #poverty #terrible

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could. ↗

— Len Wein

#best #could #did #god #i

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think. ↗

— Libba Bray

#gemma-doyle #libba-bray #thinking #using-your-brain #beauty

You know I do, aye? Love you right, Chessiebomb. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#love