Appalling Not Nice Quotes

#1. Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

Charlie Brooker

#2. For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.

Juan Cole

#3. In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.

Walter Abish

#4. As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.

Brendan Jack

#5. Mind you, you don't get albums written about really good people like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, do you? Good people's places in Heaven may be assured, but nobody's going to have a chart-topping album full of songs about someone's good deeds.

Mitch Winehouse

#6. I have a tendency to be awfully big-hearted and it's very hard for me to say no, even when I need to.

Dolly Parton

#7. Which means, while you guys are off partying tomorrow, I'll be at home in my makeshift lab, playing with D's blood." I groaned. "You're even able to make a nice gesture sound appalling. How is that possible?" "Years of practice," he said, grinning.

Ada Adams

#8. There is a Japanese proverb that translates as 'the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

Jim Korkis