Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

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

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

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

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 terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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