Quotes About Awful

Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals.

It's so rare in the world to meet somebody you connect to. Most people are so awful. In the big picture, bad breath just seems relatively manageable.

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love' 'Love, my child, love, love!'(then he had done with grief) 'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone, And none was left to love in all the world.

I have terrible taste in women. And Zanya, being an awful human being, was exactly the kind of terrible that was just to my taste.

Her strong, warm clasp did not falter, but her panic grew. An abyss seemed opening at her feet too, as for the first time in her life she realized the meaning of death. However strong religious faith may be, death remains an abyss that swallows the familiar companion of everyday as though he had never been. It is the most awful fact of human life, and at the moment Marianne knew it not only with her mind but for the first time with her panic-stricken soul as well.

It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneath which men long ago veiled their knowledge of the most awful, most secret forces which lie at the heart of all things; forces before which the souls of men must wither and die and blacken, as their bodies blacken under the electric current.

All London was one grey temple of an awful rite, ring within ring of wizard stones circled about some central place, every circle was an initiation, every initiation eternal loss.

Saudi women had no faces. We pulled away and ran over to the black shapes. We stared up at them, trying to make out where their eyes could be. One raised her hand, gloved in black, and we shrieked, "They have hands!" We pulled faces at her. We were truly awful, but what we were seeing was so alien, so sinister, that we were trying to tame it, make it less awful. And what these Saudi women saw, of course, was little black kids acting like baboons. After

With 'SMTV' it was a very brave decision by ITV to commission it for a year. It was so awful to start with and the ratings were so low to start with we might never have made it past the first six months.

I think I am generally prone to exaggerating characters, taking them to a ridiculous extent. But you do also meet those people in real life who are just really awful.

We take our health for granted until something awful happens.

History was by definition one long chaotic, violent mess sometimes interrupted by magnificent eras of peace that remind everybody life occasionally wasn't awful.

I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

The last speech [Iago's soliloquy], the motivehunting of a motiveless malignity—how awful!

Although there are occasions when it is more pronounced and awful and occasions when it is actually horrific, trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people. It is the bedrock of our biology.

Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.

Abash'd the Devil stood,And felt how awful goodness is, and sawVirtue in her shape how lovely.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

If you're funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you're either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to.

I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

It's an awful snug place for orgies. What orgies? I dono. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too.