Appaling Quotes

#1. Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and horny butterfly.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

Elisabeth Elliot

#3. Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Peter Benchley

#4. When eyes have died in its gaze, know the heart had died in its blaze.

Anthony Liccione

#5. Very few things in the living universe are truely inert. So those with the eyes to see it, can precieve a very different realm from mundane world of man.

Evan Currie

#6. Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

Billy Eichner

#7. It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.

David Livingstone

#8. When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing. Her words had soared like an angel's over the swells of the organ. In fact, I now suspected, her entire theology had been taken from the hymnal.

Siri Mitchell

#9. Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."
["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

Juvenal

#10. When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

W.S. Gilbert