Appall'd Quotes

#1. Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.

Michael Oakeshott

#2. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than appall.

Herman Melville

#3. It's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more.

Tessanne Chin

#4. Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

Edmund Spenser

#5. Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

Richard King

#6. What but design of darkness to appall?- If design govern in a thing so small.

Robert Frost

#7. If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.

Debbie Ford

#8. The only mothers who never embarrass, harass, dismiss, discount, deceive, distort, neglect, baffle, appall, inhibit, incite, insult, or age poorly are dead mothers, perfectly contained in photographs, pressed into two dimensions like a golden autumn leaf.

Kelly Corrigan

#9. Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.

Kevin Patterson

#10. You have the right to create an appealing future for yourself; you also have the right to build up an appalling brand. Whichever, you own the value you create.

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. I bet you know someone who could use a few naked jocks in their life.

Ben Monopoli

#12. First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.

Milan Kundera

#13. Some other eyes will look around, and find the things I've never found.

Malvina Reynolds

#14. You've gone and sewn me to this bed,
The taste of you and me,
Will never leave my lips again,
Under the blinding rain,
I wanna hold your hand so tight,
I'm gonna break my wrist,
And when the vultures sing tonight,
I'm gonna join right in.

Pierce The Veil

#15. It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Jacki Weaver

#16. Don't be afraid to reveal that inside you is a seething, fiery core of ambition that would appall Napolean.

Julie L. Cannon

#17. There's a lot of cheese where you're going, Hope. I'm not sure how this affects people long term.

Joan Bauer

#18. The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

David Levithan

#19. On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

Eric Dane

#20. I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs ... and good ones.

Nina Simone

#21. True love in my view can only flourish in conditions where there is a mixture of freedom and constraint. An imposed love, sanctioned by law and blessed by a priest does not really seem the same thing at all

Guy De Maupassant

#22. Hell is reimagined by each generation. Its terrain is surveyed for absurdities and remade in a fresher mold; its terrors are scrutinized and, if necessary, reinvented to suit the current climate of atrocity; its architecture is redesigned to appall the eye of the modern damned.

Clive Barker

#23. For where'er the sun does shine,
And where'er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.

William Blake

#24. [I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

James Madison

#25. While scholarly research provides extensive information, the real Jesus, the man who voiced various timeless insights on life, can only be revealed when life is understood better than the common mindset of our time allows.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#26. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

Patrick Ness

#27. I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

Steve Erickson

#28. The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman