Awful Quotes

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An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care. — Steven Moffat
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one… — Maya Angelou
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But… — Rob Bell
Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it? — Jessica Zafra
Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in… — Joseph Barbera
I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood. — Eddie Bracken
The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading… — Smith Wigglesworth
Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up. — Etty Hillesum
Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness,… — Alan D. Eames
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see… — Kurt Vonnegut
The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try to… — Dalai Lama
The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no… — Thomas Merton
I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only… — Justus von Liebig
But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is… — William Wordsworth
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at… — Pamela Stephenson
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. — Reginald Maudling
The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of… — Ronald Reagan
Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right… — Roald Dahl
There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look… — Alexander Kotov
I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did… — Richard Widmark
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things… — Robbie Coltraine
Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why… — Doris Lessing
When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole. — Loren Acton
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV. — Mike Judge

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