Appalling Quotes

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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs… — James A. Baldwin
My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about… — Jenson Button
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth. — Georg Brandes
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The… — William Wells Brown
From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived of the possibility of being… — Frantz Fanon
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the… — Bobby Jones
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. — Douglas MacArthur
Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen. — John le Carre
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make them wilt at once...I only… — Isoroku Yamamoto
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. — Cynthia Heimel
The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. — Fred Hollows
Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this. — Nicole Kidman
One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of… — Nicole Kidman
We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17. — Barack Obama
Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an… — George Bernard Shaw
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to… — Ralph Raico

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