Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

Jacki Weaver

I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.

Daniel Becker

It's appalling that Nissan, V.W. and Hyundai are accelerating in reverse.

Paddy Ashdown

Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.

Stephen Evans

Complying with this legislation is costly for our business so to find out that a government funded-body is encouraging companies to ignore the law is appalling and puts us at a significant disadvantage to those companies simply because we are law abiding.

Doug Whitley

I find it appalling that legislators would wish to gag employers so that they will not communicate with employees regarding public policies and civic issues, when we know employees would very much want to know what employers think about issues.

Eric Epstein

I find it appalling from an ethical and moral vantage point that you can actually profit from stealing from the treasury. There should be an incentive to return the money.

Herman Gorter

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

Mary McAleese

Year after year their hearts and homes have opened to those bereaved who came here in sad pilgrimage. Out of such humanity we see the power love has to transcend even the most appalling evil,

Jed Dickerson

Just looking to see the conditions of the lake. Kind of looking to see what I can see.

S. Walker

It honestly wasn't ideal weather conditions for us, but the kids competed well and we had some some good results for the first meet of the year.

Sandra Pianalto

Removing the policy accommodation puts us in the strongest possible position to react as evolving economic conditions require.

Sandra Pianalto

In the past several years consumers ... have been very diligent in managing some of their debt in terms of refinancing to lower rates, but we'll have to ... keep our eye on this situation as the conditions change,

Matthew Archambeault

In the meantime, hopefully we can have a fruitful conversation with the government to get his release, perhaps under conditions they can impose. We are pleased. This is what we envisioned as going to happen from the beginning.

Jason King

In the CI market, you have to watch out for family history. Conditions such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes and back pain may also mean you are looking at a full exclusion of the condition, plus any related conditions.

Helen Hall

In terms of diseases or any skin conditions there are no risks involved. As long as they have their lashes they can get eye lash extensions.

David Emery

If you think about the conditions the victims of Katrina endured ... the stress and fear must have been unimaginable, ... When real news isn't available, rumors percolate to fill the gap. ... People start conjecturing.

Claire Tomalin

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

Robert Shaw

There's no future in being poor.

Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.

Sandra Cisneros

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.

Alexander Lebed

I know for sure that Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is a very sick person. He must resign because of his poor health.

George Ayittey

Africa is poor because she is not free.

Eric Hoffer

The well-adjusted make poor prophets.

Emily Giffin

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Dina Emde

I really wanted the record to be quite honest.

Gabrielle Aplin

I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

Gerald Smith

If not, it's going to be quite a nut.

Lawrence Jacobs

I have never seen anything quite like this.

Lee Janzen

I'm not going to say it could never be that way. But I don't think (Woods) is quite there right now.

Tess Rogers

I wanted to keep playing, but I wasn't quite sure how that was going to happen.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

Robert Creeley

There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Wordsworth

in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But you can't imagine I'm going to use it." "Just to hold someone off. Just remember what I taught you," said Nick. "Just buy a little time so I can come get you. Jamie. I'll come get you.

Stephanie Ferlita

If you are able to get though this tournament, you know you've done well.

Mike McLaughlin

Everybody's going to keep him in our thoughts and prayers.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

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