Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

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.

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

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 is awful. Do it again.

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

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 a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

To be hungry must be awful.

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.

Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop committing massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare to do.

Together we made our way down to the street level. Neither of us said a word. The music was awful--Neil Diamond or something. I should've made that part of my gift form the gods: better elevator tunes.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.

We are neurotically haunted today by the imminence, and by the ignominy, of failure. We know at how frightening a cost one succeeds: to fail is something too awful to think about.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and we're pretty awful at abstract thought, much less acting on it.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.

What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the workers and understand that they've left their families to help clean up a pretty awful situation. Every time you have an emergency management situation, it's all about teamwork.

Whatever had happened to him [Newt] out there — maybe even related to his lingering ankle injury — had been truly awful.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

When I first auditioned for Dexter... Well, I was sent the script, and I read it and loved it, and I knew right away that it was going to be a hit because it's the type of programming that I like to watch. It's that very morally ambiguous thing where you find yourself rooting for someone who's really an awful person, but... is he doing good? You're constantly calling into question your own moral code. I love that as an audience member.

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

When I met someone who I thought was really talented, I would just be like, Wow! How did you get that way? And I met a lot of people who would just do anything to claw their way to the top, and it was just shocking and awful for me to see that for the first time. And now I live in Manhattan so I have become desensitized to that.

When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.

When those people get up at the Grammys and say, "I thank God", I always imagine God going, "Oh, don't, please don't thank me for that one. Please, oh, that's an awful one! Don't thank me for that - that's a piece of crap !

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.