Quotes about Dreadful

Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die Votes: 3

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. Votes: 3

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also. Votes: 3

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships. Votes: 3

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business. Votes: 3

Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay novelist in the 1940s whom Gore Vidal once considered a rival. Votes: 3

My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don't have any issues. I'm not suffering some secret angst. Votes: 3

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. Votes: 2

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. Votes: 2

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. Votes: 2

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Votes: 2

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted. Votes: 2

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. Votes: 2

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. Votes: 2

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. Votes: 2

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. Votes: 2

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. Votes: 2

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate. Votes: 2

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade. Votes: 2

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, possibly more than in the so-called real world. Votes: 2

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 and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. Votes: 2

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. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. Votes: 2

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God. Votes: 2

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. Votes: 2

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 will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. Votes: 2

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Votes: 2

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. Votes: 2

I used to have quite long hair, and I decided that I wanted to get it cut. I'd never met the person who did it, and she cut it into some kind of dreadful mullet. It looked like a triangle on my head. The other kids were merciless. Votes: 2

My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to watch. I remember she said to me: 'Believe in yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.' I'm sure a lot of my success is due to her words of advice. Votes: 2

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully. Votes: 2

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. Votes: 2

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought. Votes: 0

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player. Votes: 0

Love can make us do dreadful things. Votes: 0

Design is a dreadful form of expression Votes: 0

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. Votes: 0

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Votes: 0

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter Votes: 0

Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects. Votes: 0

I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive. Votes: 0

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart. Votes: 0

For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Votes: 0

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating. Votes: 0

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. Votes: 0

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. Votes: 0

Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes. Votes: 0

Hindsight is always easier than the dreadful moment of decision. Votes: 0

And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful. Votes: 0

Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful? Votes: 0

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Votes: 0

Ah, love. A dreadful bond! And yet, so easily severed. Votes: 0

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! Votes: 0

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. Votes: 0

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. Votes: 0

There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. Votes: 0

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. Votes: 0

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. Votes: 0

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly. Votes: 0

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. Votes: 0

To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing. Votes: 0

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. Votes: 0

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat. Votes: 0

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. Votes: 0

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too. Votes: 0

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments. Votes: 0

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment. Votes: 0

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage. Votes: 0

Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects. Votes: 0

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. Votes: 0

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor. Votes: 0

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway. Votes: 0

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. Votes: 0

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines. Votes: 0

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. Votes: 0

The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy. Votes: 0

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. Votes: 0

It is dreadful the way all the comfortable, happy people stay off to themselves. Votes: 0

The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. Votes: 0

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away. Votes: 0

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember. Votes: 0

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. Votes: 0

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. Votes: 0

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women? Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea? Votes: 0

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! Votes: 0

I seem to myself, as in a dream, Am accidental guest in this dreadful body. Votes: 0

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order. Votes: 0

When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. Votes: 0

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. Votes: 0

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences. Votes: 0

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Votes: 0

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Votes: 0

You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. Votes: 0

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today. Votes: 0

The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat. Votes: 0

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child. Votes: 0

It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description. Votes: 0

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more. Votes: 0

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. Votes: 0

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another. Votes: 0

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid. Votes: 0

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used. Votes: 0

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart. Votes: 0

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it. Votes: 0

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' Votes: 0

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress? Votes: 0

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. Votes: 0

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color. Votes: 0

Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin. Votes: 0

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Votes: 0

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time Votes: 0

It was dreadful, I had pain. It was like someone was trying to put pressure up there. Votes: 0

To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to. Votes: 0

Always keep in mind that even your most dreadful expectations, are still nothing more than mere assumptions Votes: 0

It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness. Votes: 0

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves? Votes: 0

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father. Votes: 0

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling. Votes: 0

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! Votes: 0

I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones... Votes: 0

There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains. Votes: 0

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy. Votes: 0

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. Votes: 0

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature. Votes: 0

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. Votes: 0

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas. Votes: 0

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost." Votes: 0

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do. Votes: 0

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. Votes: 0

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. Votes: 0

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. Votes: 0

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! Votes: 0

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody. Votes: 0

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him. Votes: 0

I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful. Votes: 0

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people. Votes: 0

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies! Votes: 0

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!" Votes: 0

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen. Votes: 0

I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it. Votes: 0

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. Votes: 0

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man. Votes: 0

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that. Votes: 0

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. Votes: 0

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think. Votes: 0

Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made. Votes: 0

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school Votes: 0

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs. Votes: 0

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school. Votes: 0

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma. Votes: 0

Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex. Votes: 0

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. Votes: 0

Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent. Votes: 0

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. Votes: 0

Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. Votes: 0

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner. Votes: 0

The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems. Votes: 0

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. Votes: 0

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. Votes: 0

...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush. Votes: 0

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly. Votes: 0

The dreadful joy Thy Son has sentIs heavier than any care;We find, as Cain his punishment,Our pardon more than we can bear. Votes: 0

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful. Votes: 0

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant... Votes: 0

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life Votes: 0

…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness… Votes: 0

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves. Votes: 0

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. Votes: 0

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible." Votes: 0

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it. Votes: 0

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft? Votes: 0

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. Votes: 0

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out. Votes: 0

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this. Votes: 0

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general. Votes: 0

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth! Votes: 0

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite. Votes: 0

Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. Votes: 0

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend. Votes: 0

That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today Votes: 0

Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations. Votes: 0

I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And I think that's dreadful. Votes: 0

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Votes: 0

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! Votes: 0

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Votes: 0

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth. Votes: 0

I do believe that reality is dreadful and that you are forced to choose it in the end or go crazy, but that it kills you. Votes: 0

What do you mean fainted? Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors. Votes: 0

I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror. Votes: 0

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your reality. Votes: 0

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out. Votes: 0

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it. Votes: 0

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair. Votes: 0

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events. Votes: 0

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative. Votes: 0

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. Votes: 0

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force. Votes: 0

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. Votes: 0

O Space and Time and stars at strife,How dreadful your infinity!Shrined by your termless trinity,How strange, how terrible, is life!(The Testimony of the Suns) Votes: 0

Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale. Votes: 0

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men. Votes: 0

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it! Votes: 0

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living. Votes: 0

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them. Votes: 0

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. Votes: 0

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history Votes: 0

The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instruments,' which are all well-made movies, is that they were all infected with a dreadful sincerity. Votes: 0

I would love to be friends with Kanye West, because I know he is not a dreadful person, he is a lovely person and I think he is misunderstood. Votes: 0

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured. Votes: 0

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name. Votes: 0

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker Votes: 0

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. Votes: 0

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! ("The Testimony of the Suns") Votes: 0

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. Votes: 0

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. Votes: 0

There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples. Votes: 0

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. Votes: 0

To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false! Votes: 0

I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up. Votes: 0

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing... Votes: 0

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction. Votes: 0

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance. Votes: 0

Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless. Votes: 0

From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences. Votes: 0

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view. Votes: 0

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day. Votes: 0

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity... Votes: 0

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering. Votes: 0

The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break. Votes: 0

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 our lives have sufficient of both. Votes: 0

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams. Votes: 0

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! Votes: 0

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face. Votes: 0

There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams. Votes: 0

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing. Votes: 0

The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half. Votes: 0

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate. Votes: 0

The sterilization of men is one method of birth control. The surest, most radical method. To you it seems dreadful. To me it seems that, properly applied, it's by no means dreadful. Votes: 0

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love. Votes: 0

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever. Votes: 0

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!' Votes: 0

Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! Votes: 0

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home. Votes: 0

At any point in all of Eternity, we can say, 'This is just the beginning.' How wonderful for those who are with Christ. How unimaginably dreadful for those who are not. Votes: 0

I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity. Votes: 0

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died. Votes: 0

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided. Votes: 0

"¦So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky Votes: 0

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses Votes: 0

American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity on their leaders with respect to accountability for crimes against humanity. Votes: 0

Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41) Votes: 0

Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. Votes: 0

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong. Votes: 0

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy. Votes: 0

Certainly 'Survivors,' when we put that series out, the second series dipped below 5 million for one of the episodes - all of a sudden, there's no recommission, and I think that's dreadful. Votes: 0

When everyone in America knows you're in a dreadful position, admit you're in a dreadful position. Don't lie about it and make them roll their eyes, tell the truth and make them blink. Votes: 0

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it." Votes: 0

I used to be a folk singer, but I was... dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog. And being a folk singer doesn't make you attractive to women. Votes: 0

If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses. Votes: 0

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth. Votes: 0

My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something called 'Everything Stew,' where she would take everything in the refrigerator, all the leftovers, and put them all together. Votes: 0

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. Votes: 0

There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have, Votes: 0

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip. Votes: 0

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred. Votes: 0

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which. Votes: 0

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs. You refer to yourself in order to understand other people. That's the novelist's gift, isn't it? Votes: 0

At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there. Votes: 0

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all Votes: 0

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights. Votes: 0

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets. Votes: 0

I think I can sing, but that does not mean I can actually sing. I fear that I'm like one of those 'American Idol' contestants who truly believe they are good and are actually dreadful. Votes: 0

One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later. Votes: 0