Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

For me personally it is because I get an awful amount of success and I don't think I deserve it and then I want to sabotage it.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?

Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough.

...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

Here I am, a product of something really vicious, product of the Atlantic slave trade. And yet, I give nary a thought to some of the awful things happening right now in the world.

Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day. You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. Because second time is like, 'OK, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.

I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.

I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

I don't get to be edgy and angry, but the rewards are that I'm generally quite happy with my day. I spend an awful lot of time in a good mood.

I could not stop something I knew was wrong and terrible. I had an awful sense of powerlessness.

I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.

I'd love to, she finally said,"on one condition." I steadied myself, hoping it wasn't something too awful. "Yes?" "You have to promise that you won't fall in love with me." I knew she was kidding me by the way she laughed, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sometimes, I had to admit, Jamie had a pretty good sense of humor. I smiled and gave her my word.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.

I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.