Awful Quotes - Page 9

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Paul Lynde

Dad, Lying, Hate

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When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

Tim O'Reilly

Thinking, Ideas, People

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I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

Natascha McElhone

Mom, Zero, Father

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Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

Alan Cohen

Healing, Roots, Negative Experiences

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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

Eberhard Weber

Hands, People, Giving

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What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

Samuel Hoffenstein

Lucky, Modern Life, Wheels

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The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

C.J. Sansom

Thinking, Giving, Sometimes

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But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Sebastian Horsley

Happens, Seems

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Sure the jews killed jesus, but the guy was an awful carpenter

Zach Braff

Jesus, Guy, Carpenter

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Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.24, Vintage

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Sure the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least it's not an awful body count - it's a fun body count.

Bonnie Bedelia

Funny, Stupid, Complaining

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Seeing Neil Entwistle accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and, in fact, only adds to our enormous pain and suffering. To think that someone we loved, trusted and opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief. The betrayals to the family, to Neil's family, to our family (and) to our friends here and in the UK are unbearable.

Joe Flaherty

Daughter, Pain, Betrayal

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Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Bruce Kent

Organization, Manipulation, Power Corrupts

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I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

Joseph O'Neill

Loss, Outcomes, Recognition

Joseph O’Neill (2012). “Netherland”, p.27, HarperCollins UK

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COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless them, so as to increase and multiply. The things concerning the Ascension: Set up Thyself, O God, above the heavens and Thy glory above all the earth. By thine Ascension draw us withal unto Thee, O Lord, so as to set our affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. By the awful mystery of Thy Holy Body and Precious Blood in the evening of this day: Lord, have mercy.

Lancelot Andrewes

Life, Art, Moving

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You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Darrell Johnson

Sports, Psychology, Together

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I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Children, Moving, Butterfly

"The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

Elizabeth McCracken

Children, Mean, Passion

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Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are?

Alber Elbaz

Wrinkles, Curves, Why Not

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There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

Ward Cunningham

Simple, People, Simplicity

"The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

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Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?

John Walter Bratton

Birthday, Loss, Mobility

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When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

Evan Dando

Journey, Ugly, Needs

"I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries!

Walter Scott

Lying, Mystery, Volume

Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Waverley Novels”, p.239

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The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get a couple to fall through, get a little confidence going and keep going from there.

Dan Uggla

Couple, Fall, Stay Positive

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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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