“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”
"The Fact About Progress," The New York Times (1970-02-24)
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writer and satirst from the United States 1925–2019Related quotes
“Madness is always a wonderful excuse, don’t you think? For doing terrible things to other people.”
Source: The Winter People
“It's usually just awkward. It's not terribly romantic or steamy.”
On love scenes with male co-stars, from Inside the Actors Studio (2007) http://uk.youtube.com/user/pfeifferpfan2
Context: It's usually just awkward. It's not terribly romantic or steamy. Sometimes people's wives show up — "Hey, how you doing?"… I had a wedding scene with someone once, and the girlfriend showed up in a white dress...
“I am a progressive who likes to get things done.”
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Democratic Presidential Debate in Miami (March 9, 2016)
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
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Variant: Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 11, Ritual
Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 40
“I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.”
Statement of 1930, after postulating the existence of the very elusive neutrino; as quoted by Frederick Reines, in his "Foreword" to Spaceship Neutrino (1992) http://books.google.com/books?id=JBOdejRrmaMC by Christine Sutton, p. xi
Source: Where the Wild Things Are (1963); of this passage Bill Moyers stated in "NOW with Bill Moyers", PBS (12 March 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/sendak.html:
Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once.
Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.