"Appalling things can happen to children. And even……" — Mark Haddon

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• You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them. — David Attenborough
• The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at… — James A. Baldwin
• My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because… — Jenson Button
• The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth. — Georg Brandes
• Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to… — William Wells Brown
• From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
• Anti-Semitism hits me on the head: I am enraged, I am bled white by an appalling battle, I am deprived… — Frantz Fanon
• On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling… — Bobby Jones
• In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military. — Douglas MacArthur
• Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage… — John le Carre
• One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this… — Enrico Fermi
• The mindless rejoicing at home is really appalling; it makes me fear that the first blow against Tokyo will make… — Isoroku Yamamoto

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