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  • Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -- Dr. Seuss
  • There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. -- Herman Melville
  • We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. -- Jesse Owens
  • He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. -- Aeschylus
  • Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise. -- Rob Bell
  • I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes. -- Sylvester Stallone
  • Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries. -- George Eliot
  • Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful. -- Samuel Beckett
  • I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood. -- Eddie Bracken
  • Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. -- Sarah Dessen
  • Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful. -- Bill Bruford
  • There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert. -- Fred Frith
  • Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous. -- Charles Buck
  • How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days. -- Tony Ross
  • When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. -- Minna Antrim
  • Something awful is always going to happen, Arton. It's Sanctuary. You're a Stepson. Awful is a big part of your job. -- Janet Morris
  • I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. -- Andrew Solomon
  • You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world. -- Leon Panetta
  • Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word. -- Lynda Barry
  • Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym. -- Stephen King
  • I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. -- William S. Burroughs
  • When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. -- Hilaire Belloc
  • It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter. -- Mark Twain
  • Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh. -- Fanny Brice
  • This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. -- Lysa TerKeurst
  • From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. -- Leon Trotsky
  • Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. -- Robert Casey
  • I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted. -- Chris Martin
  • A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me. -- Kate Winslet
  • I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction. -- Meg Cabot
  • I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone. -- Kate Bush
  • I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish. -- B. F. Skinner
  • If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling. -- Stephen Dillane
  • So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life. -- Nina Conti
  • When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. -- Stephen Fry
  • I'm awful at karaoke, but if I did have to sing, I'd go for my favourite Frank Sinatra song 'I've Got You Under My Skin.' The fact I love Frank is my grandfather's doing: he drummed it into me from a very early age that Frank Sinatra is God. -- Matt Smith
  • There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsessed with your own problems, you miss these things. When you discover them, you become happy. -- Novala Takemoto
  • It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship. -- Helen Mirren
  • If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. -- Elon Musk
  • I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win. -- LeBron James
  • My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure. -- Suresh Raina
  • I was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being. -- Luke Evans
  • My acting chops are awful. -- Andrew Luck
  • Living, it's awful for me. -- Robert Smith
  • I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking. -- Brian Eno
  • To be hungry must be awful. -- Dick Van Patten
  • This is awful. Do it again. -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • Donald Trump is an awful loser. -- Gene Weingarten
  • All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful. -- Elizabeth Bishop
  • I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. -- Edith Sitwell
  • Sometimes awful things have their own beauty. -- Christopher Isherwood
  • I'm honest. It's the world that's awful. -- George R. R. Martin
  • I have an awful lot of energy. -- Mary Quant
  • Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe. -- Michel Leiris
  • No, I'm a horrible singer, I'm awful. -- Charisma Carpenter
  • It's an awful risky thing to live -- Carl Rogers
  • Great God! This is an awful place. -- Robert Falcon Scott
  • Acting on a blue screen is awful. -- Steve Burns
  • Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful. -- Patricia Norris
  • I've played an awful lot of repressed people. -- Rebecca Hall
  • It's pretty awful being told you're a racist. -- Chris Lilley
  • Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Everything was good. But it was awful, too. -- Markus Zusak
  • When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck. -- Jennifer Echols
  • Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
  • I take theeto be my awful wedded husband -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • I had peanut butter once. It was awful. -- Grumpy Cat
  • Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease. -- Malachy McCourt
  • Penalties are awful, unfair, but what else is there? -- Laurent Blanc
  • There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! -- Walter Scott
  • Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful. -- Rod Stewart
  • How awful is that hour when con, science stings. -- James Gates Percival
  • Human beings can be awful cruel to one another. -- Mark Twain
  • The awful thing is we don't respect each other. -- Jane Goodall
  • It's just a big excuse to say awful things. -- Louis C. K.
  • I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer! -- Bobby Orr
  • Love can make even nice people do awful things. -- Jude Deveraux
  • An awful lot has been written about my temper. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
  • We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol. -- Bill Bruford
  • I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • A bunch of bad songs, make an awful whine. -- Benny Bellamacina
  • I still get awful depression. It's who I am. -- Marian Keyes
  • It must be awful to feel you're not needed. -- Anne Frank
  • It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. -- Colum McCann
  • Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose. -- Herb Caen
  • Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,..... -- John Milton
  • On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. -- Steven Weinberg
  • Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful. -- Alan Moore
  • There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. -- Anton Chekhov
  • Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things. -- Kevin Costner
  • I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it. -- Ronnie Wood
  • Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. -- Gioachino Rossini
  • I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions. -- Tim Roth
  • Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life. -- Steven Wright
  • I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism -- Amy Poehler
  • The stories I create are never as awful as reality. -- Henning Mankell
  • Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me. -- Agnetha Faltskog
  • We write an awful lot of stories about Donald Trump. -- Ryan Grim
  • Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world. -- John Denver
  • I play golf - even though I'm awful at it. -- Clare Balding
  • The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. -- William Barclay
  • Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. -- Charles Lamb
  • And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more -- Banana Yoshimoto
  • It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful. -- Kathryn Stockett
  • I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful! -- Marcia Cross
  • I know the other side. I know what awful golf is. -- David Duval
  • Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous. -- Desmond Tutu
  • And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ... -- Banana Yoshimoto
  • I ago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • I think that people who don't like kids are awful people. -- Maya Rudolph
  • I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread. -- Terry Pratchett
  • The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful. -- Craig Ferguson
  • The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons. -- Jean Renoir
  • Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself. -- Eugene Ormandy
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