Awful Quotes - Page 6

• I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

  Tennessee Williams

  Believe, Long, Silence

  Tennessee Williams (1959). “Sweet Bird of Youth”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

  James Patterson

  Country, Law, People

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• I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

  Warren Christopher

  Lost Friendship, Close Friends, Cases

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• I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

  George R. R. Martin

  World, Honest, Song Of Ice And Fire

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.693, Bantam

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• Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, World, Miserable

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.60, A&C Black

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• People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

  Stephen Breyer

  People, Sticks, Lost

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• I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Thinking, Watches, Cry

  "Bergman 'depressed' by own films". news.bbc.co.uk. April 10, 2004.

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• I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Dirt, May, Common

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• The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

  Robert Creeley

  Reading, Mean, Kids

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• Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Sides, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.251, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Blood, Water

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.38, BookBaby

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• Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember.

  Randy Susan Meyers

  Remember, Forget, Moments

  Randy Susan Meyers (2013). “The Comfort of Lies: A Novel”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Reality, Needs, Mental Illness

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• War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.

  John McCain

  War, Loss, Reality

  "Mark Shields: A much different war for a changed nation", www.cnn.com. September 16, 2002.

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• If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Presidential, Singing, Nominations

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• O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Heaven

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Fear, Ideas

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• I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

  Nigella Lawson

  Happiness, Thinking, May

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• When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Baby, Self Worth, Years

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• It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see…I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

  Maggie Smith

  People, Age, Want

  "Quote of the Day: 'It’s a Bit Baffling As To Why Everybody Has To Be Treated As If They Were Five Years Old'" by Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2012.

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• We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Rome, Victory, Triumph

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• If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!

  Cesar Romero

  Father, Nuts, Gone

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• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

  Walter Pater

  Attitude, Sleep, Effort

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!

  Kenneth Koch

  Jewels, Boxes, Clicks

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• The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11-12; Isa. 53:3-5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. 'And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.' (Mark 14:35-36.)

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Father, Past

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