Top 1200 Terrible Events Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less painful, nor does it help us transcend them. To write memoir, you have to not only recollect past events, you have to revisit them. You have to get back to the mental and emotional state you were in during those events.

There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.

I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

It is so important to remember that, as we travel through life, there will be so many events which we can`t control. These are things that seemingly alter our lives forever or become barriers for living a life of fulfillment. It`s important to remember that the ultimate experience of life is not to be controlled by events. We all have difficult events in our lives - the loss of family members, economics, stress, litigation, government interference in our businesses, health challenges. Remember that it is not the events that shape our lives, but, rather, the meaning we attach to them.

It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.

I don't think any actor really thinks they're good. I watch my own work and I'm like, Oh God, this is terrible, that's terrible.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

[Being a celebrity] In a word, it's terrible. In two words...Really terrible.

Our platform is self-service, so we enable people to host events themselves. The biggest events tend to be the free ones. We had 100,000 at a salsa congress in Mexico.

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

At some major events - your birth and death, for example - while you may be the center of attention, the events are managed by others and are more important to the people around you.

I'm no good at anything but comedy, which I think I'm good at. I'm absolutely no good at networking; I'm terrible at acting; I'm terrible at dealing with executives; I'm terrible at collaborating. And I say whatever I want to say. But I think I'm good enough at comedy that I can survive. And I don't really have an ambition for money.

You're trying to dramatize events to tell a story most effectively. That doesn't mean the events aren't true, it just means you're making them as dramatic as you possibly can.

I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

Any of my previous fights before the UFC and 'the Ultimate Fighter' were all main events and co-main events.

To me, it seems pretty obvious that socialism is terrible. After all, do you know what's not terrible? Freedom.

I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Today, I join King Abdullah in Paris to stand in solidarity with the people of France in their darkest hour...To stand in unity against extremism in all its forms and to stand up for our cherished faith, Islam. And so that the lasting image of these terrible events is an unprecedented outpouring of sympathy and support between people of all faiths and cultures.

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

There has been a terrible hemorrhage of educated women to the West where they can flourish. I understand, but it is terrible. We must stay home.

Tomorrow you will say Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia, this is terrible! It's not terrible. It's good.

The Islamic world is not only suffering from the American occupation of Palestine and Iraq, it's also suffering from the unbelievable corruption in Afghanistan by Afghans themselves and also in Iraq - I'm just giving these 2 examples of countries which are under direct occupation; I do not mean at all to negate the terrible events that led to this or what's going on with the foreign occupation there.

The qualifying system helps the top guys like Sergio Garcia, who play most of their golf in the U.S. They can rely on the world rankings and just play their four extra events [with the four majors and three World Golf Championship events counting as seven European events]. But for the other guys it's tough, and I don't know if that can be changed. It is a tricky situation.

When I was a kid and went to shows, my favorites were Live Events. You really see a performer's personality on Live Events than on TV.

When events like the Sony Hack or the news of the Russian hack of our election, we're not shocked by such events, but they are troubling.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

If we can simply distinguish between the different successive stages of evolution, it is possible to see primeval events within the earthly events of the present.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

Oh, I've had terrible, terrible relationships! The fact that I ever got happily married to a great, normal man is kind of a miracle.

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing.

And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's when her teeth really go bad. It's a terrible, terrible time for her. And she has five children, ranging in age from three to 10. It's an emotionally terrible ordeal.

The notion that those of us that are pro-life because we love children - is that so terrible? Really? Is that so terrible?

Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into a book.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

After being at Vogue' for two years in PR, I decided to bring all events in-house. That's how I became the director of events.

Because I go outside sometimes, I'm exposed to terrible, terrible music in public.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

We always seem to be surprised by events, especially by catastrophes, but also by wonderful events. Look at 1990, the year that the Soviet Union collapsed and apartheid in South Africa collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down. I don't know anyone who foresaw those events. It seems to me that as a species we are constantly trying to adapt ourselves to the unexpected. In the meantime, we talk as if we are in control, and we're not. This seems to me to be the truth about the twentieth century.