Appallingly Quotes

#1. Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

Malcolm Wallop

#2. Appallingly, I hadn't thought about it one jot. I never daydreamed as a little girl of getting married and having children. I was as surprised to discover I was getting married as I was to discover I was up the duff.

Helen McCrory

#3. Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#4. Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

Anthony Powell

#5. The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

Marcus Buckingham

#6. Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

Eileen Wilks

#7. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

#8. There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

Jo Brand

#9. It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again ...

Claude Monet

#10. I find the average quality of present parenting appallingly poor, I have every reason to believe it far superior to that of just a few generations back. A

M. Scott Peck

#11. There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.

Annie Lennox

#12. If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea
no matter how appallingly bad
can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.

Steve Krug

#13. Every adult grew from a kid who beat the odds. But at different times, in different places, the odds have been appallingly steep.

M.R. Carey

#14. Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.

Diana Wynne Jones

#15. ABOYNE (vb.)
To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

Douglas Adams

#16. we went over to one of my favorite pizza places for a few slices of deep-dish, which Trey appallingly did not appreciate: "This isn't pizza. This is basically lasagna with no noodles.

Tim Pratt

#17. Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Walter Reuther

#18. Stupid Crusaders with their stupid rules. For a homicidal group, they're appallingly restrictive.
No, Meda, you can't leave campus.
No, Meda, you know we have a curfew.
No, Meda, you can't eat that guy.

Eliza Crewe

#19. It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.
I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

Albert Einstein

#20. An appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.

Clair Davies

#21. What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.

Randy Alcorn

#22. You are nosy," said Howl. "You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all." "But

Diana Wynne Jones

#23. Scully was appallingly gregarious - so outgoing she was practically incoming.

Karen Joy Fowler

#24. I spent a lot of time [between takes] apologising to Peter Dinklage [Dance's on-screen son, Tyrion Lannister] because I treat him appallingly.

Charles Dance

#25. I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#26. The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

David Rockefeller

#27. Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

Douglas Adams

#28. The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#29. I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

Charlotte Rogan

#30. We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.

Horace Mann

#31. I do not think we have a right to withhold from the world a word or a thought any more than a deed which might help a single soul ...

Emily Dickinson

#32. The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.

Dara Horn

#33. He was gargoyle. Tonight, his mate would learn exactly what that meant.

Danielle Monsch

#34. O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet,
Completing him not otherwise complete!
How void and useless the sad remnant left
Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

Abraham Coles

#35. The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Giovannino Guareschi

#36. I always loved rapping ever since Snoop said "1-2-3-4," I was repeating lines, but I didn't start writing my own lyrics until I was twelve.

Fashawn

#37. Familiarity can blind you

Robert M. Pirsig

#38. Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.

Laozi

#39. Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

Greil Marcus

#40. His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific slaughter of innocents, when other men, such as Harry Richmond, took advantage of being suddenly unfettered by conventional standards to do whatever the darkest side of human nature desired.

Tom Bensing

#41. The two of them went down in a heap, with not even a turkey to break their fall.

Eoin Colfer

#42. Learning to trust God when He says "no" is a very important step in handling rejection. This is because God's character is not only seen in what He does, but in what He does not do.

Jamie Larbi