Awful Quotes - Page 13

• If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

  Cesar Romero

  Father, Nuts, Gone

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• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

  Walter Pater

  Attitude, Sleep, Effort

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Past

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• Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

  Russell Kirk

  Organization, Perfect, Mind

  Russell Kirk (1963). “Confessions of a bohemian Tory: episodes and reflections of a vagrant career”

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• I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

  Edward Albee

  Regret, Thinking, Why Not

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• The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year. Unless you give at least 45 minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your 90 minutes of a night are chiefly wasted.

  Arnold Bennett

  Book, Reading, Cutting

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How To Live On Twenty-Four Hours A Day”, p.40, Read Books Ltd

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• One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Believe, Writing

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.92, Macmillan

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• A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Brotherhood, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when you don't know anything, not even as much as you did when you were younger, and you don't even have a philosophy about all the things you don't know, the way you did when you were twenty or would again when you were thirty-eight.

  Lorrie Moore

  Philosophy, Eight, Stupidity

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Dec 25, 2011

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• And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

  Elon Musk

  Morning, Things In Life, Needs

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• Get your texts from God - your thoughts, your words, from God... It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Heart, Hands

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• The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  Life Is, Reason

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• There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Teacher, People

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• 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.

  Peter L. Berger

  Mean, Social, Force

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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• If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

  Glenn Frey

  Thinking, Eagles, Together

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• There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

  Taylor Branch

  Doors, Race, Government

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Different

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• Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?

  Rue McClanahan

  Sex, Interesting, Sound

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• The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Art, Magic, Insensitive

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2016). “A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century”, p.129, Crown Forum

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• It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

  Colum McCann

  Beautiful, Silence, Heard

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Douglas Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Sometimes

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• Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Hero, Adversity, Humanity

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• Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
  Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
  Careering o'er the lonesome main,
  No port shall know her keel again...
  Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
  The sailor finds there eternal night,
  'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
  And Ocean will the secret keep

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Ocean, Sleep, Night

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1918). “Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder”

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• I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.

  Lea Seydoux

  Beautiful, Art, Reality

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• Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

  Vince Gill

  Companionship, Physical Attraction, Happens

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