Quotes About Dreadful

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.

Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

made them so terrifying, like a wholly malevolent space creature from a sci-fi movie.

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscious that dwells in the heart of every man.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. —SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709–1784)

As Sophocles said it – how dreadful knowledge of the truth is, when the truth can't help you!

I started off in this dreadful, vulgar film called 'The Libertine.' I was just learning. I needed the money.

There's always a sense of tragedy with icons. It happened to both the Princess of Wales and Diana Dors. A lot of people had grown up with them, and everybody loved them. Then, when they had at last found happiness, they were taken in the most dreadful way.

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'

All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange, endearing part of our culture. Morbid fascination sums it up.

Ein Jeder engel ist schrecklich.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

One of the characteristic aspects of our time is that we fear the future. We fear the unholy powers unleashed by science. We fear the absolute power of states more tyrannical than the tyrannies of the past because they strive to rule men's minds as well as their bodies. And writers, who can imagine the dreadful details of such a future more vividly than the rest of us, write books capable of troubling our sleep indefinitely. . . .

Some stereotypes are perniciously wrong, and hostile stereotyping can have dreadful consequences, but the psychological facts cannot be avoided: stereotypes, both correct and false, are how we think of categories.

A city of Dreadful Nights: "The world rolls round forever like a mill, it grinds out life and death and good and ill. It has no purpose, heart, nor mind, nor will.

The labor leader Samuel Gompers had long considered the production of cigars in unsanitary tenements "one of the most dreadful, cancerous sores" on the city of New York. Realizing

What intelligent remedy, like jumping in the river, do you suggest if we find this man Lymond irreconcilably dreadful?

Oh, yes, sir." Betty's eyes sparkled with the pleasure of public disaster. "Wasn't it dreadful?

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood; Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath, The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers "Death".

this thing seems more dreadful than anything else that has ever happened, more utterly dreadful — but you'll find that it will pass and be completely forgotten —