“I think that what we have heard from the Remain campaign throughout this whole referendum have been dire warnings of the terrible consequences of the British people just taking control of our own destiny.And, the truth is, if we vote to Leave we will be in an economically stronger position. We will be able to take back some of the money that we currently give to the European Union and we can invest it in our priorities.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingHas BeensWholeAbleDestinyHeardPositionTerribleTruth IsConsequenceVoteStrongerUnionsBritishCampaignsPrioritiesWarningEuropean UnionReferendums Author:Michael Gove
“There's an understanding of common prayer that I think we're seeing grow, more and more. When I travel, I hear from people who are deeply touched that our common prayer takes time to remember some of the terrible tragedies that have happened around the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldRememberGrowsUnderstandingPrayerCommonSeeingHappenedTerribleTragedyAround The WorldTouchedTake TimeTerrible Tragedy Author:Shane Claiborne
“Even if I'm doing a show and there's five people in the audience and the sound system is terrible - I mean, it's been a while but I've certainly done those kind of shows where it's just every conceivable thing is against you - you still have music. It's still something that's real whether there's five people in the audience or a hundred thousand people in the audience. And that's always been there for me.” PeopleIfsKindMeanStillsRealDoneShowsSoundAudienceFiveTerribleThousandHundredSound Systems Author:Joan Osborne
“It's crazy. I don't know how I'm not dead. People think I'm going to get punched in the face: "Something terrible is going to happen to you. You're going to get killed." That's not what's going to kill me. The show is going to kill me. The work is going to kill me. Once I'm on the street, I'm not worried about that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShowsHappensFacesKnow HowCrazyStreetsTerribleWorriedKill MeDead People Author:Billy Eichner
“I want to join everyone in expressing my great sympathy and support for people who lost loved ones in this terrible terrorist attack [in Orlando] and everybody still in the hospital who is struggling and all the first responders.” PeopleWantFirstsStillsLostSupportStruggleTerribleTerroristHospitalsLoved OnesLost LoveTerrorist AttacksOrlandoLost Loved Ones Author:Hillary Clinton
“Obviously, in a friendship there are always things, good and bad, that go on between people. You can't take away what's already happened. And if it's something that's really terrible, I think you have to forget about the friendship.” PeopleIfsThinkingForgetHappenedGoes OnTerribleGood And Bad Author:Natalie Portman
“Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them.” PeopleIfsKnowsImportantLostKnow HowTerrible Author:Natalie Portman
“I want to just say something very, very personal. As you know, Louisiana has undergone a lot of flooding over the last couple of weeks August 2016. And I just want to thank the American people for their generosity and supporting so many victims of that terrible flooding.” PeopleKnowsWantLastsWeekCoupleTerribleVictimGenerosityAugustLouisianaFlooding Author:Donna Brazile
“If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.” PeopleIfsGivingBelieveUsedSongFoundChanceWindTerribleHatedToysLennonTiresome Author:Garry Winogrand
“I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright, and I don't like being in front of people.” PeopleStillsClassStageFrontsTerriblePerformingEmbarrassedClownReluctantFrightStage Fright Author:Chris Elliott
“People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it” PeopleIfsLooksMeanSeemsActionRiskDangerTerribleConsequenceDistance Book:India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.' Source: India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'
“I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.” PeopleKnowsCharacterNamesTerriblePayment Author:Billy Lawrence
“And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.” PeopleMenPersonsTrumpTerribleAddressesShouting Author:Bill Burr
“I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.” PeopleFeelsKidsHouseTerribleLondonForty Author:M.I.A.
“You have to think back to the '90s. The computer was this terrible-looking thing that was trying to compete with the television. And it was this idea of email and chat rooms and this kind of stuff that first people - got people there.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsKindIdeasStuffRoomsTelevisionTerribleComputerEmail Author:Tim Wu
“People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.” PeopleSelfMotivationTerribleDrivenSelfish Author:Michael Schur
“The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry in many ways, tragic event even though I participated in it and played some role in it. But I regret a lot of that.” PeopleWayEndsRolesEventsStudentsRegretTerribleDemocraticSorryTragicI RegretDemocratic SocietyTragic Events Author:Bill Ayers
“This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what they're talking about. Their motives are not necessarily good just because they say they are being good. It's peace, love, and understanding. To which I can just say, "Shut up." Human liberty, rule of law, and free markets fix this stuff. It isn't necessary to go around being the Mia Farrow of the ecosphere.” PeopleKnowsHumansI CanLawStuffUnderstandingTalkingLibertyEconomyTerribleBe GoodMotiveCrapShut UpCarbonFree MarketRule Of LawPeace LoveMia Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“It's also a terrible kind of sentiment [ reality TV] for children and for people. It makes people feel like they all want to be famous for no reason.” PeopleWantFeelsKindChildrenReasonRealityTvsTerribleNo ReasonSentimentsReality Tv Author:Chelsea Handler
“I'm actually cautiously optimistic that Donald Trump will be so bad that he will force America to wake up and realise that forcing America to vote for right wing Republicans is always a terrible idea. It's never been a good idea, but what happened here is you have a president like Obama who gives you eight years of relative stability and prosperity, and people forget that Republicans are just terrible, not just for the country but for the planet. Maybe this is America's equivalent of bottoming out, like a crystal meth addict going on one last big run before they have to get sober.” PeopleGivingYearsIdeasCountryBigsRunningLastsAmericaForcePresidentForgetHappenedPlanetsTrumpTerribleRepublicanVoteWake UpWingsProsperityEightOptimisticRealisingStabilityRelativeGood IdeasSoberAddictCrystalsRight WingCrystal Meth Author:Moby
“I think that you could design a terrible logo for a good company with great people and they could build it into a great program. Alternatively you could design what seems to be a brilliant logo for people who are not smart or energetic or are incapable of associating with anything positive and it would become a terrible logo.” PeopleThinkingSeemsCompanyDesignTerribleSmartProgramBrilliantIncapableGreat PeopleEnergeticLogosGood Company Author:Michael Bierut
“I'd also talk about the period and of course all the different gender things that people might feel that they are. I'd be a terrible teacher because of what I don't know about that.” PeopleKnowsFeelsDifferentMightCoursesTeacherPeriodsTerribleGender Author:Jen Kirkman
“If Hillary Clinton had won and if my people went out and protested, everybody would say, "Oh, that's a terrible thing."” PeopleIfsTerribleClintonTerrible Things Author:Donald Trump
“Congressman [Richard ] Icord headed a House on American activities committee. It was called the House Internal Security Committee. And he put out a report, and he named a number of very destructive people who lectured at colleges and left arson in their wake and did other terrible things. And he mentioned me and he ascribed to me three organizations to which I'd never belonged, and I decided I would do something about this.” PeopleThreeHouseLeftNumbersSecurityCollegeTerribleActivityDecidedOrganizationReportsDestructiveInternalsCommitteesTerrible ThingsCongressmanArson Author:Nat Hentoff
“The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that to get to the point where the Proletariat would triumph, anything that was necessary to be done should be done; the means didn't count.” PeopleShouldMeanBookDoneFactsDarknessNovelForeverTerribleRussiaTriumphNoonArthurProletariatDarkness At Noon Author:Nat Hentoff
“That's one of the biggest issues that we see in the question of governments right now, I think, in the Western world. Is that increasingly all of our elected officials are pulled from the same class. These aren't normal people. I don't want to say they're all terrible people, but at the same time, they're not like you and me. These are people who have sort of a nine to five working history.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantGovernmentClassIssuesFiveLike YouTerribleRight NowNormalWesternNineOfficialsWestern WorldElected Officials Author:Edward Snowden
“[Some young athletes] get home, look at social media, and they have thousands of people ripping it out of them, telling them that they're terrible at their profession, they hope they lose their next match or fight.It's hugely negative and unless you can rise above it and pay no attention, it can have a very serious impact on that person's state of mind.” PeopleMindLooksPersonsStatesHomeYoungFightingNextSocialLosesPayAttentionMediaSeriousTerribleNegativeImpactAthleteSocial MediaProfessionState Of MindRise AboveYoung AthletesRise Above It Author:David Haye
“The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.” PeopleCultureFashionYouthTerrible80sMillennials Author:Brett Morgen
“The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was one of them. He lived a terrible a life for the first 33 years, and then he radically changed.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsRealityChangedTerribleLibraryBiographiesAugustine Author:Gary Chapman
“One of the things I noticed about the Trump supporters was a lot of projected fear. I can't tell you how many times a conversation went like this: "We've got to stop these immigrants, because it's terrible." I'd say, "Okay, what personally have you observed about this?" And there would be basically nothing in that box. And I'd say, "Where'd you get your information?" thinking they were going to say Fox. But they would always say, "Well, I get my information from all kinds of sources." Fox is kind of center-left to a lot of people now.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindI CanWould BeLeftInformationSourceTrumpTerribleConversationOkayBoxesAll KindsImmigrantsFoxesSupporter Author:George Saunders
“Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.” PeopleSeemsHalfFiguresTerribleBattle Author:Queen Latifah
“David, Moses, Saul of Tarsus, these were all people who did terrible terrible things - they were murderers. The Bible would be a lot shorter without grace.” PeopleWould BeGraceTerribleMurdererTerrible ThingsMoses Author:Shane Claiborne
“When you get in the middle of a career and you're successful, people come and offer you things. My biggest fear was that if you try to do something else and you're trying to build your music career, and then you say, "I'm going to go do a movie," and you're terrible, you can really hurt your music career because as a musician, the goal is to be cool. You're playing the guitar and you're in front of all these people and your vibe is to be as cool as you can possibly be.” PeopleIfsTryingGoalHurtCareersSuccessfulMiddleFrontsTerribleOffersMusicianGuitarSuccessful PeopleBeing CoolBiggest FearMusic Career Author:Tim McGraw
“Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.” PeopleFeelsMadeEyeMy OwnSpaceHealingIssuesBecomingTerribleGaySummerMy FriendsAdultsOkayAdmireUncomfortableGay People Author:Lena Dunham
“Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the worst atrocities in the past decade have been in the Congo, the Eastern Congo, where maybe 5 million people have been killed.” PeopleWorldHas BeensEnoughPastMillionsWorstExampleTerribleDecadesSyriaEasternCongoAtrocities Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't think anyone would disagree with the conclusion that Saddam [Hussein] was a terrible dictator. He had gassed his own people and his neighbors. He had killed thousands of people, and he had started a couple of wars and destroyed his country.” PeopleThinkingWarCountryCoupleTerribleNeighborConclusionDestroyedDisagreeDictatorSaddamHussein Author:Colin Powell
“Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingFeelsYearsI CanDoneHelpingAbleJobsTerribleLuckyNormalFinancialHopelessNurseEmergenciesGigsPsychiatricFundraiser Author:Jo Brand
“300 years after the rise of Islam there were Zoroastrians in Iran. The Muslim armies never forced people to accept Islam. It was only within Arabia that God ordered the idolaters to have a choice of either embracing Islam or fight against Muslims, because He wanted to remove this terrible idolatry that exited there. But outside Arabia where Islam met Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and Hindus, they were given a choice by and large. That's why many Christians and Jewish communities survived in the Muslim world, but gradually many of them embraced Islam for different reasons.” PeopleWorldYearsDifferentReasonWantedChristianChoicesFightingGivenCommunityAcceptingTerribleMetsArmyIslamJewRemoveIranSurvivedIdolatryArabiaMuslim WorldJewish Community Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“People are terrified of other people or difficult projects because they tell themselves that they could fail or be rejected. Failure can lead to sorrow, regret, frustration and annoyance - all healthy, negative feelings without which people couldn't exist. But then they add, "I absolutely must succeed and must be loved by significant persons, and if I don't, it's terrible and I'm no good." Those are irrational beliefs. As long as people keep them, they'll be terrified of life and will put themselves down when they get rejected.” PeopleIfsPersonsLongFeelingsBeliefDifficultFailingRegretTerribleSorrowHealthySucceedProjectsNegativeAddSignificantFrustrationRejectedIrrationalTerrifiedAnnoyanceNegative FeelingsIrrational Beliefs Author:Albert Ellis
“I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors, I feel it's really terrible to start with their looks. Right? Because especially for women, it just puts you in your head at a time when you should really be focused on your work and what you're saying and doing and not how you look.” PeopleWayFeelsShouldLooksSelfYoungActorsIndustryTerribleConsciousFocusedSelf ConsciousYoung ActorsSaying And Doing Author:June Diane Raphael
“I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.” PeopleYearsKindBookSchoolFoundHouseLeftStruggleIdentityTerribleFindingsMy FamilyMovedLibraryBoxesLike MeRecallsVolumeDelightedHereticContainingInquisitionSchool Library Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I think if you come out to California trying to be an actor, it's pretty hard. There's desperation. A lot of people are desperate, and a lot of people are clueless, including me. It's hard to try to figure it out. I've never told you, but I have head shots that if you saw them... they're so terrible! It's so embarrassing.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingHardActorsSawsFiguresTerribleShotsIncludingCaliforniaDesperateDesperationEmbarrassingClueless Author:Zach Galifianakis
“Assad is always a priority. That is not an issue. He is a war crime. He has done terrible things to his own people. He has used chemical weapons on his own people. He continues to be a hindrance to peace in Syria. And that is something the Trump administration strongly believes.” PeopleBelieveWarDoneUsedIssuesCrimeTrumpTerribleWeaponsPrioritiesAdministrationChemicalsSyriaTerrible ThingsHindranceAssadWar CrimesChemical Weapons Author:Nikki Haley
“I was a terrible actor. But John Hughes liked me, and he encouraged me. I made him laugh, I guess is the bottom line, and then he gave me that part in Ferris Bueller's Day Off as the flower man. It's just a nothing part in one sense, but it's such an iconic movie that people will ask me from time to time, "Are you in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?" "Yeah."” PeopleMenLaughingFlowerTerribleBottomAsk MeIconic Author:Louie Anderson
“I have a terrible confession to make, sort of like those people who say that they've been mispronouncing a word all their life: I've never read Ways of Seeing all the way through. I'm sure I carried it around with me in art school.” PeopleArtSchoolTerribleConfession Author:David Salle
“The friendship that you create between you and a mom - or you and an older woman figure - is so important and so influential. I think that my relationship with my sister, my relationship with my best friends - when I'm feeling really terrible about myself, they're always there to let me know that I am being dramatic about something, or I'm being stupid about something - it's good to have those kinds of people to drag you back down and protect you.” PeopleThinkingKindImportantFeelingsStupidMomTerribleProtectLet MeDramaticMy SisterMy Best FriendInfluentialOlder WomenBeing Stupid Author:Rowan Blanchard
“Starting in the '80s or so, after the United States sharply cut its rates, other countries decided they better do it too, and here's how you do it: you just wipe out the exemptions, the deductions, the credits, the depreciation allowances. And people complain, "Oh my God, it's terrible," but you give them much lower rates and you give them an easier form to file, and people accept that tradeoff.” PeopleGivingCountryAcceptingCuttingTerribleRateComplaining Author:T.R. Reid
“We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.” PeopleWorldMindSometimesTermInterestSupportEconomicTerribleBehaviorLaborOnlineBubblesGoogle Author:Ramesh Srinivasan
“Most people consume information passively-whatever they're being fed. They're being fed Russian television, which tells them that in the 90s there was a terrible catastrophe, that before that life had been all right, and then when Putin came many people say, "I've never lived as well as I'm living under Putin." That's true-there has never been such a level of affluence. But now, it looks like people will have to tighten their belts, and some are already having doubts.” PeopleDoubtTerribleCatastrophe Author:Vladimir Voinovich
“We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.” PeopleThinkingRememberHumanityChristViolenceTerribleUniqueHorseIslamTerrorCommittedBetray Author:Barack Obama