Quotes and Sayings About Awful
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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
-- Aaron Allston -
In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.
-- Abby Sunderland -
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
-- Agnes Smedley -
I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
-- Amanda Bynes -
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
-- Ann Patchett -
...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.†Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.
-- Anne Mallory -
I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.
-- Anton Yelchin -
Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.
-- Ariana Franklin -
To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.
-- Beth Moore -
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
-- Beverly Sills -
Sometimes I had to room with Tony Kaye and that was awful.
-- Bill Bruford -
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!
-- Bobby Orr -
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
-- Bono -
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.
-- Brad Warner -
I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.
-- Brenda Lee -
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
-- Bruce Kent -
The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.
-- C.J. Sansom -
I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.
-- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan -
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
-- Carl Sagan -
So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.
-- Catherine Gilbert Murdock -
Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.
-- Celia Imrie -
Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.
-- Charles Buck -
How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.
-- Charles Kingsley -
Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.
-- Charles Lamb
