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It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.
— Jasmine Guinness
You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
— David Attenborough
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
— Robert McChesney
Faith has always struck him as either a tremendous gift or an appalling deception, depending on whether there's a God or not.
— Nick Harkaway
The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.
— Charles E. Rosenberg
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
— Doris Lessing
I'm an appalling cook. I can just about create a glass of orange juice and a ham-and-cheese sandwich.
— Dara O Briain
I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.
— Ginn Hale
The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
— David Horsey
One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else.
— Charlaine Harris
The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.
— Fred Hollows
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
— Katherine Mansfield
It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.
— Blaise Pascal
In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
— Douglas MacArthur
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
— Orison Swett Marden
It was not happiness - she was very sad to know that victory had required such an appalling act. But success was success, victory was victory. She
— Marissa Meyer
Well, I had the most appalling childhood.
— Bruce Robinson
What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.
— Louise Erdrich
It's appalling that there should be hunger anywhere, but particularly in a country like America, where there is also such great wealth.
— Elizabeth Hurley
My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher.
— Karen Joy Fowler
We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
— Joan Blades
It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Tension demands release. Unusual tension demands release that can only be described as appalling.
— Garth Ennis
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
— Queen Elizabeth II
The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.
— George W. Bush
The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying ...
— Chris Bonington
We shan't have rain, but we shall have darkness, so let us hurry on. The darkness last night was appalling.
— E. M. Forster
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
— Sheila Jackson Lee
Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?
— Jeremy Corbyn
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
— Tom Stoppard
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
— John Buchan
Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,
— Julian Assange
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
— Arthur Miller
What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.
— Diane Ladd
The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.
— Gary Kemp
It has always been possible to say "The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling."
— Georges Bataille
Life blindsides you so hard you can taste the bright copper blood in your mouth then it beguiles you with a gift of profound and appalling beauty.
— William Gay
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
— William Golding
I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.
— Paul Arden
On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematery was appalling when it first came out on to the page.
— Stephen King
It is appalling that President Obama would cut off federal health care dollars to Florida in an effort to force our state further into Obamacare.
— Rick Scott
Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
— Ione Skye
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
— Terrence Howard
From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance. - LEO TOLSTOI
— Ernest Becker
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
— Christopher Hitchens
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
— Susan Sontag
In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.
— Peter Baynham
It's really actually been pretty shoddy and appalling, the amount of local content, Australian drama, on ABC TV.
— Gillian Armstrong
It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.
— Glenda Jackson
Your stupidity is appalling!"
"Most stupidity is! — Charles M. Schulz
"Most stupidity is! — Charles M. Schulz
It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.
— Richard Whately
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
— Nick Harkaway
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
— Boy George
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!
— Johannes Brahms
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
— Nigel Farage
It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.
— Jeremy Corbyn
Because sometimes chance and circumstance can seem like the most appalling injustice, but we just have to adapt. That's all we can do.
— Gavin Extence
Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion!
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion. — Wendy Cope
It is with some regret that I here besmirch the nobility of our airmen, but boys, you killed an appalling lot of women and children.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
— Caitlin Moran
The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
— Alex Haley
Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.
— Louise Imogen Guiney
What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
— Louise Erdrich
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
— James F. Cooper
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
— George Santayana
They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war.
— Jonathan Demme
Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
— Boris Johnson
I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.
— Samantha Bond
One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.
- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw
- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw
People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.
— Diane Setterfield
Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.
— Charlie Brooker
The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
— Paul McCartney
What appalling tales we shall have to tell of the strange lands we visited; and of those lands, surely none was stranger or more barbaric than Rome!
— Steven Saylor
We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.
— Barack Obama
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
— Tennessee Williams
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.
— Ken Livingstone
Their job seemed to me so hopeless, so appalling that I wondered how anyone could put up with such a thing when prison was a possible alternative.
— George Orwell
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
— Marquis De Sade
The Suicide, as she is falling,
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon. — Edward Gorey
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon. — Edward Gorey
Life is short and the number of books is appalling.
— John Cowper Powys
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
— Quentin Crisp
Alice said once that she'd never been appalled by anything. Elisabeth said that was appalling.
— Liane Moriarty
We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.
— Katherine Mansfield
The invisibility in which we live next to one another is appalling, Kukla thought.
— Dubravka Ugresic
It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.
— Mark Twain