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  • Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

    Stars   Rocks   Awful  
  • Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

  • It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.

    Book   Angel   Grace  
    Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books
  • How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

    Men   People   Criminals  
  • Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.

    Writing   People   Awful  
    Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.122, Anchor
  • At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

  • Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.

    Jobs   Kids   Fighting  
    Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.
  • We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.

    "Hebron Is Jerusalem's Sister" by Sdeh Boker, Hebron.com, January 25, 1970.
  • Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

    Religious   Luck   Awful  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Slapstick or Lonesome No More”, p.9, Random House
  • Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

    Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.121, Univ of California Press
  • 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.

  • it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see.

    Secret   Awful   Privacy  
    Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company
  • I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.

    Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.
  • I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.

    Sex   Husband   Wife  
    Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”
  • It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

    Hurt   Two   People  
  • You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

    Jane Fonda (2006). “Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion”
  • Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

    Sad   Night   Trying  
    Song: Donegal Danny
  • When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

    Science   Sky   Tree  
  • And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa—she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody’s?

    Love You   Heart   Agony  
  • 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.

    Running   Gun   Gambling  
  • People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.

    Thinking   People   Awful  
    "Google Chief: My Fears For Generation Facebook" by • Jerome Taylor, www.independent.co.uk. August 18, 2010.
  • There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

    Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company
  • I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

    New York   Games   Play  
  • When it was offered [a role in The Flash] I just thought it sounded like the perfect thing that I would want to do. Then they announced it online the day after and I was terrified, because I hadn't read anything, I hadn't shot anything. What if I'm awful? What if they fire me on the first day? But what I discovered was a bunch of really happy actors who want to make the best show possible, because it's fun. Not for any other reason.

    Fun   Fire   Perfect  
    "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.
  • People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell
  • To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

    Mean   Awful   Social  
    Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr
  • Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

    Horse   Children   Fear  
  • The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.

    Christian   Eye   History  
    Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.881, e-artnow
  • I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

    Mean   Who I Am   People  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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