Appalling Quotes

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Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. — Sylvia Plath
Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual… — A A Milne
I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don't want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We're the ones reaping the… — Lierre Keith
In New York, Catholic groups have forced an art gallery to shut down an exhibition of a six-foot image of Jesus in chocolate. So, the… — Bill Maher
One day they might. I accept that in the short term the consequences are terrible. No one minimises those and I'm not seeking to do… — Geoff Hoon
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire. — Henry James
My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and… — Algernon Blackwood
Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is… — Michael Ondaatje
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery. — Louise Erdrich
There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I… — Neil Peart
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.Â The appalling disparities… — Bill Gates
The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological… — Carrie P Snow
Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat… — Frederick The Great
My childhood was appalling. — Taylor Caldwell
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has… — David Quammen
If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich. — Euripides
There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the… — Robert Benchley
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules… — Iris Murdoch

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