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I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the… — Joseph O'Neill
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. — Ada Louise Huxtable
COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls: and didst bless… — Lancelot Andrewes
When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do. — Bessie Smith
You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise. — Unknown Author
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of… — Alan Perlis
In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through… — Aeschylus
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty… — Lucille Clifton
A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good… — Elizabeth McCracken
Everyone wants to be young and skinny. This is awful. Curves are marvelous. Wrinkles are hypnotizing. Why not just be happy with who you are? — Alber Elbaz
Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in… — Gene Roddenberry
Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while. — Tom Perrotta
There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm… — Ward Cunningham
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. — David McCullough
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be… — Evan Dando
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! — Walter Scott
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it… — Fanny Brice
We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate… — Dave Hunt
If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet. — Allison Janney
For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda and… — Unknown Author
The first couple months, I was hitting the ball hard but had some awful, awful luck. You stay positive, keep grinding out some at-bats, get… — Unknown Author
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned… — Winston Churchill

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