Appalled Quotes
86 quotes by 79 authors
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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and…
— Roald Dahl
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man,…
— Thomas A. Edison
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If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
— Alfred Korzybski
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The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was…
— Jerome Lawrence
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A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very…
— Alan Moore
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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a…
— Bill Bryson
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Fang: "There is one bright side to this." Max: "Yeah? What's that?" The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us? Fang:…
— James Patterson
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Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a…
— Kim Harrison
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What are all these?" Clary asked. "Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside…
— Cassandra Clare
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He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and…
— Rick Riordan
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All right. Are you going to come back? Do you want any soup?" "No," said Jace. "Do you think Hodge will want any soup?" "No…
— Cassandra Clare
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Since the moment I laid eyes on Jericho Barrons, I wanted him. I wanted him to do things to me that pink and clueless MacKayla…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must…
— C.S. Lewis
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Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was…
— Patricia Briggs
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But they love each other," Clary said, appalled. "Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn…
— Cassandra Clare
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So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?†“Yep,†said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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