Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

The poor homosexuals -- they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution (AIDS).

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

The reader might reflect that an awful lot of supposing has to take place in order for the quantity theory of money to be true.

There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it, or paranormal or whatever.

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.

There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

Theres a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

There's an awful video of me on YouTube.com, titled Dumas, her life is over! which was taped by some amateur during my first Olympic tryouts and has had quite a bit of traffic-like all videos of humiliated people do. This is where the exact moment that my life shattered around me was perfectly immortalized on film and can now be played and replayed, over and over, so the world can watch for their enjoyment.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.

There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

There's so much shame involved in not being like everyone else. But I learned that the things that made me unique were good. Dealing with problems can be awful. But in the end I got positive results. I don't think I would have been a writer if I didn't have anxiety.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.

The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

The Sentence has no end. Sometimes I think it had no beginning. Now I salute its authors, which means all of us. You have made a wild, precious, awful, delicious, lovable, tragic, vulgar, fearsome, divine thing.

The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that’s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.

The way that these girls keep themselves skinny is awful, isn't it? By vomiting or using hard drugs - which I can't afford.

The way we're currently educating people about heroin is to say that heroin is so awful. Heroin is not so much the problem. It's when you combine it. It's hard to die from heroin alone.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

This is awful. Do it again.

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

To be hungry must be awful.