Awful Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Team, Trying, Company

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• I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?

  Dakota Johnson

  Children, Thinking, Years

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

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• People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech.

  Michael Copps

  Sorry, People, Memorial

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• Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered.
  It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

  Robert Goolrick

  Goodbye, Sweet, Drama

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• An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

  Steven Moffat

  People, Care, Storytelling

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• All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

  Maya Angelou

  Grace, Survival, Encounters

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• Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

  Jessica Zafra

  Doe, Looks, Stuff

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• 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.

  Joseph Barbera

  Television, Phases, Bills

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

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• The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes. It is an awful thing for me to see people who profess to be Christians lifeless, powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel to unbelievers’ lives that it is difficult to tell which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Christian, Jesus, Reading

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• Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

  Etty Hillesum

  Giving Up, Suffering, Giving

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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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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• Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

  Alan D. Eames

  Beer, Self, Joy

  Alan D. Eames (2014). “The Secret Life of Beer!: Exposed: Legends, Lore & Little-Known Facts”, p.15, Storey Publishing

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• Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sweet, Writing, Character

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to develop compassion towards my enemy, it may not benefit him directly, he may not even be aware of it. But it will immediately benefit me by calming my mind. On the other hand, if I dwell on how awful everything is, I immediately lose my peace of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Attachment, Hands

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• The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Lasts, Tomorrow

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.

  Justus von Liebig

  Learning, Science, Land

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• But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

  William Wordsworth

  Happiness, Issues, Heaven

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.371

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• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Pain, Husband, Childhood

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

  Reginald Maudling

  Country, Scotch, Sake

  Said on the aeroplane after visiting Northern Ireland for the first time,

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• The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Order, Giving

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• 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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• There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.

  Alexander Kotov

  Mistake, Congratulations, Self

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• I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

  Richard Widmark

  Character, Play, Racist

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