#terrible

Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#bridge #called #defend #just #left

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. ↗

— Jung Chang

#accept #because #century #chinese #come

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#been #before #blow #i #made

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game. ↗

— Barry Switzer

#ball game #football #football game #game #horrible

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#helps #i #singer #taxi #terrible

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#also #another #congress #disaster #handled

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#inanimate #me #mortality #most #terrible

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

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

— Mother Teresa

#feeling #loneliness #most #poverty #terrible

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#impossible #intimacy #know #life #married