Awful Quotes - Page 13

• I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

  Roone Arledge

  Air, Games, Goes On

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• I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

  Ron Reagan

  Mean, Iraq, Floating

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• I can't wait to do the normal things. Like just doing your own groceries. Looking for your own tomatoes. I just can't wait to get up in the morning and look awful. I'm looking forward to getting bored.

  Celine Dion

  Morning, Reading, Book

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• Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

  Noel Coward

  Exercise, Secret, Aspirin

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• I'm the type of guy where one thing leads to another and eventually it gets awful. If I put a $5 bet on a roulette table tonight at 10 o'clock, by tomorrow at noon I would be running guns to Cuba.

  Artie Lange

  Running, Gun, Gambling

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• I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

  Brenda Lee

  Air, Crash, Planes

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• If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.

  Lydia M. Child

  Death, Children, People

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• Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Brother, Spring

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• I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Children, Agony, Government

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• You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• To emotionally accept impending disaster, to attain the gut-level understanding that the power elite will not respond rationally to the devastation of the ecosystem, is as difficult to accept as our own mortality. The most daunting existential struggle of our time is to ingest this awful truth-intellect ually and emotionally-and continue to resist the forces that are destroying us.

  Chris Hedges

  Struggle, Ecosystems, Understanding

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• If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

  Edward Gorey

  Nonsense, No Point, Ifs

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Marijuana is a gateway drug that can lead to awful things, like Phish getting back together.

  Stephen Colbert

  Marijuana, Drug, Getting Back Together

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• There is an awful warmth about my heart like a load of immortality.

  John Keats

  Heart, Immortality, Load

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 September 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 370

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• Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

  Daniela Pestova

  Air, Flying, Skins

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• A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Hard Work, Thinking, People

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• One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It’s just an awful lot of 'us.'

  Douglas Adams

  Important, Internet, Important Things

  "How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet". Essay by Douglas Adams, first published in The Sunday Times, 1999.

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• A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

  Vernon Howard

  Running, Night, Painful Experiences

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• It's an awful risky thing to live

  Carl Rogers

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• A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. That's how awful the loss is.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Children, Husband, Losing A Loved One

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• The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.

  Taylor Swift

  Trying, Never Forget, Forgetting Someone

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• The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.

  George Washington

  Blessed, Purpose, May

  George Washington, Dorothy Twohig, William Wright Abbot (1987). “The Papers of George Washington: April-June 1789”

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• This is awful. Do it again.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Supervision

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• When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

  Leo Kottke

  Night, Thinking, People

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• I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

  Beth Moore

  Done, Awesome Things, Most Awesome

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.229, B&H Publishing Group

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