#awful

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. ↗

— William James

#behalf #caution #certain #errors #excessive

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#catholic #chemistry #forbidden #lawful #mathematics

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#always #children #claim #gave #had

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise. ↗

— Darrell Johnson

#ball #bat #come #just #listen

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world. ↗

— A. Alfred Taubman

#auction #awfully #boring #business #else

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#all things #attempts #burden #excuse #feels

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#even #i #like #lot #love

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into. ↗

— John Kluge

#awful #entrepreneurs #go #into #lot

Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#awful #basketball #beautiful #became #country

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions. ↗

— Tim Roth

#functions #get #i #invited #jewish