Awful Quotes - Page 26

• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Attention

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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• All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Mean, Spirit

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Issues, Doubt

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• Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

  Judith Guest

  Successful, People, Tragedy

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• Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?

  Elizabeth Berg

  Mother, Father, Hands

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• Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Gratitude, Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.131, Infobase Publishing

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• Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  History, Judgement, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.144

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• I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

  David Soul

  Anger, Facts, Management

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

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• What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

  Prince Philip

  Singers, Classic, Made

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• It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Killing, Bigs

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• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

  e. e. cummings

  Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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• When I was little and something awful was happening my Mama would tell me to close my eyes.She was tryin' to keep me from seeing her do drugs or other bad things. And then when she was finished or the bad things were over she'd say, “now when I count to three, you open your eyes and the past is gone, the world is a good place,and it's all gonna be okay.

  Michael Oher

  Eye, Past, Drug

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• An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated. If they sell it, they lose bragging rights.

  John Neff

  Rights, Long, People

  "John Neff on Investing". Book by John Neff, October 22, 1999.

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• I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

  David Duval

  Golf, Sides, Knows

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• It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

  Craig Finn

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

  Richard Whately

  May, Spirit, Moments

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.347

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• The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

  Rufus Choate

  War, Passion, Insane

  Rufus Choate (2002). “The Political Writings of Rufus Choate”, p.52, Regnery Gateway

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• We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.

  Donald Antrim

  Regret, Loneliness, Coffee

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Country, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’m not good-looking. I used to be, but not anymore. Not like Robert Taylor. What I have got is I have character in my face. It’s taken an awful lot of late nights and drinking to put it there. When I go to work in a picture, I say, ‘Don’t take the lines out of my face. Leave them there.’

  Humphrey Bogart

  Drinking, Taken, Character

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• The only dating advice I have to offer is: Expect the guys in your life to be kind and respectful. Don't make excuses for garbagey behavior-'Oh, that's just what guys are like.' It isn't true. Expect them to be good, treat them like they're good. And if they're garbagey, move on. Don't let your world get cluttered up with people who think they have some gender-based right to be awful.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Moving, Thinking, Dating

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• And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Broken Heart, Wall, Break Out

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• I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Thinking, Want, Able

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

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

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Believe, Orchestra

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• At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

  Paula Danziger

  Should Have, Supportive, Age

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