#appalling

My childhood was appalling. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#childhood

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief. ↗

— John Howard

#because #belief #beyond #could #executed

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#apprehensive #humor #make #only #palatable

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything

All my friends' mothers were appalling women. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#friends #mothers #were #women

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#both #ever #greatest #journalism #like

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. ↗

— Elton John

#dying #going #hiv #infection #people

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

#buying #consequences #consumer #doing #family

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

#appalling #died #end #i #lifetime

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#emotions #even #find #fine #horror