Awful Quotes

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I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst… — Gary Barlow
What is happening in Iraq now is awful, but it is a consequence of our invasion, not our withdrawal.The blame for what's happening right now… — Unknown Author
You don't get very far in life without having to be brave an awful lot. Because we all have our frightening moments and difficult trials… — Ysabella Brave
Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause. — Janet Morris
Great God! This is an awful place. — Robert Falcon Scott
We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money. — Don Ameche
As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure… — Marcus J. Ranum
Some people feel 'transformed' from the first day they begin running; others feel that it's just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is… — Grete Waitz
Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross. — Colin S. Smith
There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break… — Jackson Katz
What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful… — John Green
Discipline can only be obtained when all the officers are imbued with the sense of their awful obligation to their men and to their country… — George S. Patton
Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job. — Janet Morris
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only… — Stephen King
Is it just me, or are the 49ers doing an awful lot of ass-patting today? — Dennis Miller
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious. — Margaret George
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never… — Janet Frame
No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness. — Wilfred Owen
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but… — Paul Tibbets
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of… — John Fowles
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be… — Charles Darwin
An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it. — Unknown Author
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing… — Al Gore
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable,… — Gregg Easterbrook

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