Best 491 quotes in «awful quotes» category

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

At one point, I even thought, "Oh, I'll take diet pills." I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

Being homeless is awful, but if you've ever tried to wrestle a duvet cover back onto a comforter you realise it's not without it's benefits.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Donald Trump is an awful loser.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

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

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.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

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

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.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.

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

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.

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.

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.

...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.

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.

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

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

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.