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Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember. — Randy Susan Meyers
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is… — John McCain
The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are… — Mariel Hemingway
If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he… — Stuart Rothenberg
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed,… — Thomas Carlyle
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased. — Nigella Lawson
When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a… — Kiefer Sutherland
It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot… — Maggie Smith
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration,… — Rosa Luxemburg
If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought! — Cesar Romero
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces… — Walter Pater
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot… — Kenneth Koch
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too,… — Neal A. Maxwell
Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit. — Gillian Flynn
Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love… — Russell Kirk
Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about corrupting every form-it… — Legs McNeil
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant. — Edna O'Brien
The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with… — Truman G. Madsen
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're… — Edward Albee
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does… — Arnold Bennett
If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny… — Edward Gorey
One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality… — Flannery O'Connor
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. — Andrew Solomon
A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood… — Ambrose Bierce

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