Awful Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  Roald Dahl

  Want, Stomach, Homesickness

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• My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Dad, Teenager, Past

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Perspective, Needs

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• We lost three very young, very talented drivers in a really short time and that had a lot of influence, too. Certainly Dale's death was a huge smack in the face to everybody, but all those deaths in such a short period of time was awful. It forced people to look at it and say, 'Hey, this isn't a coincidence. There's something going on'.

  Jeff Burton

  People, Three, Looks

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• There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Simple, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• "Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Persistence, Men, Monkeys

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.271, Pan Macmillan

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• It's the beginning of your day. You awake and look around you, feeling perhaps a joyful expectation, or perhaps an awful dread. No matter which, remember this: God loves you with an infinite love.

  Marianne Williamson

  God, Love You, Expectations

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.59, Penguin

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• Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors of unspeakable suffering and indescribable delights. Performers of murders and miracles! You might grow to like them, if you got to know them as I do. But why has your beloved Crabgrass ventured into this garden of horrors, I wonder?

  Maryrose Wood

  Garden, Miracle, Suffering

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• Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

  Robert Southey

  Memories, Light, Left

  Robert Southey (1829). “The poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume”, p.696

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• Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

  George V

  Fear, People, Would Be

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• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  Lalla Ward

  Fear

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Track, Environmental, Groups

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• If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

  Edward Gorey

  Nonsense, No Point, Ifs

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Brother, Spring

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• I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

  Roone Arledge

  Air, Games, Goes On

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

  Taylor Swift

  Trying, Never Forget, Forgetting Someone

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• It's an awful risky thing to live

  Carl Rogers

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• A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.

  George Washington

  Blessed, Purpose, May

  George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”

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• Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

  Daniela Pestova

  Air, Flying, Skins

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• One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.

  Tom Clancy

  Life, Weather, Flying

  Tom Clancy (1992). “The Hunt for Red October”, p.136, Penguin

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

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Enough, Hollowness

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• The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

  Edward de Bono

  Awareness

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• Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

  Paul Pierce

  Missing, Bigs, Shots

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• From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a character who walks and talks. So awful is your state that it seems to be a presence around you. I don't really spend time thinking about the nature of God but I'm interested in what people say about God, how it is used to control people and change policies in the physical realm.

  Hozier

  Character, Thinking, Eden

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