Dreadful Quotes
340 Dreadful quotes by 263 unique authors
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It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to…
— Golda Meir
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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited…
— Philip K. Dick
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow.…
— John Donne
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.
— Woody Harrelson
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No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
— Matthew Henry
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To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
— Samuel Johnson
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong,…
— Tanith Lee
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
— Doris Lessing
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
— V.S. Naipaul
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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it…
— George Orwell
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It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me.…
— Helen Reddy
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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
— Jules Renard
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Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of…
— Anne Roiphe
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
— George Santayana
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Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
— Friedrich Schiller
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