Awful Quotes

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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. — Sarah Dessen
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which… — Jane Fonda
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without… — Frederick Douglass
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and… — Louis Bromfield
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an… — Thornton Wilder
Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as… — Banana Yoshimoto
Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being… — Kurt Vonnegut
Sighing, she gave a brief nod. “I was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And… — James Patterson
I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem. — Karen Joy Fowler
But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is… — Elizabeth Gilbert
If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store)… — Shel Silverstein
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere… — Jack Kerouac
The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a… — Patrick Henry
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine,… — J D Salinger
Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books… — Oscar Wilde
Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. — John Steinbeck
From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins.… — Bertrand Russell
I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of… — Anne Lamott
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and… — John Steinbeck
The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't… — David Levithan
You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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