Appalling Quotes

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people;

but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of.

You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand.

It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Never judge someone by who he's in love with;

judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

It is only by the rational use of technology;

to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments;

I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling.

Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel.

The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying.

And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.