Horrible Things Quotes - Page 3

• Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

  George Orwell

  Envy, Suffering, Tragedy

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Richard Avedon's] camera dwells on the horrible things that age can do to people's faces - on the flabby flesh, the slack skin, the ugly growths, the puffy eyes, the knotted necks, the aimless wrinkles, the fearful and anxious set of the mouth, the marks left by sickness, madness, alcoholism, and irreversible disappointment.

  Janet Malcolm

  Disappointment, Eye, Wrinkles

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• All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

  David Baldacci

  Running, Appreciation, Writing

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• Boredom is a horrible thing.

  Robert Plant

  Boredom, Horrible

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• We all have a dark side but we keep it in its place because it's destructive. And Donald Trump has said, no, no, bring it out because that's the energy we need in order to reverse all these horrible things that have been happening in America.

  George Packer

  Dark, Order, America

  "The 'Dangerous, Volatile Game' Trump Plays With The White Working Class". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2016.

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• You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people.

  Barack Obama

  People, Deny, Horrible

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Race, Goes On, Horrible

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I reached the point in my life now that I understand as human beings we've all done some very horrible things to other human beings, and at some point, I came to grips with the fact that whoever murdered my friend is now an adult, and all I can truly hopefully pray for is that in murdering my friend it bettered their life. And I don't mean that they gained things, but just that they grew up, they regret their decision, they found a place of spirituality or God or whatever people call it.

  Killer Mike

  Regret, Mean, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• It's easier to do horrible things to people if you don't really see them as people.

  Cheri Honkala

  People, Easier, Horrible

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I'm writing what I want to write. But it's almost an act of rebellion on my part. Because as a person, I've always wanted to be very likeable, and I think that's a horrible thing, particularly for women. You're always like, "Oh, I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings. I hope they like me!" And that's just so stupid.

  Tama Janowitz

  Hurt, Stupid, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Confidence is a horrible thing

  Paul Merson

  Horrible

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• One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!

  Bob Barker

  Heart, Animal, Years

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• I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Doe, Passionate

  Interview with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. March 7, 2010.

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• Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.

  Hutch Harris

  Want, Done, Get Money

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think where you get into trouble - for instance the mixing of sex and violence - is when you're telling an audience that this horrible thing is enjoyable. The suffering just gets out of hand too much. It becomes pornographic.

  Susan Sarandon

  Sex, Thinking, Hands

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• In addition to trying to do the right thing and obey the law and follow principle, there's a part of the conservative, slash, Republican movement that believes if we just show that we're fair and impeccable, then we will get credit from those who think we're all these horrible things, and maybe they won't hate us as much.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape in school the history of slavery and all of the horrible things that happened in the past. But they weren't raised that way, and they are not raising their kids to be imprisoned by that. They're raising them to be the best they can be today, to take advantage of the opportunity that exists today.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Kids, Successful

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's just a horrible thing to keep saying to a woman, do you want a baby inside you? I mean, it's creepy.

  Caitlin Moran

  Baby, Mean, Creepy

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.

  Kamala Lopez

  Thinking, People, Horrible

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there and I walked out at the end of the play, which is a very intense play - my character is required to do some really horrible things - and the director was waiting backstage and he goes, "Obviously I didn't want to tell you guys, but Ian was here today" and we, of course, freaked out.Ian McKellen said some really beautiful, kind things, one of which was, "It's so much harder to watch than it is to do."

  Patrick Heusinger

  Beautiful, Character, Play

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Media, People

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• I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

  Bryan Fuller

  Writing, World, Fiction

  "‘Hannibal’ producer Bryan Fuller on cannibal cuisine, renewal and more". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Tears, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well spans my life as an appreciator - as somebody who's been involved with this mass cult of horror, from radio and movies and Saturday matinees and books. In the '40s there really wasn't that much. People don't want to read about horrible things in horrible times. So, in the '40s, there was Val Lutin with The Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People and there wasn't much else.

  Stephen King

  Book, Cat, People

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• I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, Giving, Watches

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