Hideous Quotes - Page 9

A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

Witty, Memories, Kids

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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Church Bells, Blood, Sound

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.

Mary Kay Ash

Makeup, Age, Faces

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I had a bunch of different colored hats I wore. When I started wearing a pink one, we won five or six tournaments in a row, so I stuck with it. It started as superstition and now it's traditionmy hideous trademark that I always wear.

Karch Kiraly

Superstitions, Hats, Six

Source: www.stack.com

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I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

Andrew Solomon

Christian, Acceptance, Names

Source: andrewsolomon.com

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While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

Win Butler

Beautiful, Church, Artistic

"Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.

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Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She did an event at my bookstore, and she was really, really nice, and even more beautiful in person." I didn't want to hear that. I wanted to hear that she was awful and hideous-looking. But I thought, I have to listen to that. I have to hear that. I don't want to be the one who is going to deny anything complimentary said about somebody just because I disagree with that person.

David Sedaris

Beautiful, Nice, Book

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I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

Laura Lippman

Morning, People, Likes

Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

Jamaica Kincaid

People, Slave, Good Things

"Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Charles Baudelaire

Men, Idleness

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War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment;
We, we alone, Nereids inviolate,
Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant:
Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.

Hilda Doolittle

War, Loss, Sea

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

Robin Williams

Mistake, America, Medical Bills

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I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.

Hilda Doolittle

Life, Knowledge, Doors

Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.

Flora Tristan

Organization, Bears, Doe

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Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children.

Jerry Hall

Children, Thinking, Mirrors

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Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Beautiful, Passion, Evil

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Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

Henry David Thoreau

Skins, Printing, Skin Deep

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.44

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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

Finley Peter Dunne

Vices, You Like It, Creatures

Finley Peter Dunne (1963). “Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne”

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This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

Swami Vivekananda

Real, Thinking, True Life

Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway. But it would wake up consumers... I openly hope that it comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment.

Ingrid Newkirk

Heart, Animal, People

"PETA: Bring On Foot-and-Mouth Disease" by Alan Elsner, abcnews.go.com. April 2, 2001.

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Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Garden, Insulting, Hollywood

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.646, e-artnow

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Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.

James Leonard Gordon

Beautiful, Kindness, Character

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Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.

Unknown

Men, Scary, Way

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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!

Victor Hugo

Dream, Spiritual, Wall

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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Let us leave good sense behind like a hideous husk and let us hurl ourselves, like fruit spiced with pride, into the immense mouth and breast of the world! Let us feed the unknown, not from despair, but simply to enrich the unfathomable reservoirs of the Absurd!

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Pride, Despair, World

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