Appalls Quotes & Sayings

Your vigor for life appalls me. — Robert Crumb

Im looking at you 'cause i can't look away" -Finn — Amanda Hocking

But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks. — Anna Quindlen

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonshingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagence goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives, Henle's loops and all. Every glistening egg is a memento mori. — Annie Dillard

Your everyday normal behavior has a lot to do with the results in your life. If you're not happy with these results, something has to change. NOTHING MUCH IN YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE, UNTIL YOU DO! — Jack Canfield

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day. — Marie Windsor

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States. — John Ratzenberger

I have not worked at all ... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I literally had a very articulate, though highly impaired, homeless man say to me, "Smokey! I love you! What's happening with Jacob?" Here's a guy living on the street, but he finds a way to watch Lost! And I'm looking at him, thinking, Your priorities are completely ass-backward! — Titus Welliver

My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls — William Blake

The tiny share we have of time appalls me, though my father seems to regard it with tranquillity. — Alice Munro

Historical context apart, Klemperer's journals can be read for their own sake as a gnawing meditation on the disappointments of life and the irrevocability of choices. He is intensely aware at all moments, perhaps because of his consciousness of being a "survivor," that death is only a breath away. He is one of the great kvetches of all time, endlessly recording aches and pains, bad dreams, shortages of food and medicine, snubs and humiliations. And, like everyone else, he wants everything both ways. In — Christopher Hitchens

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected. — Mitch McConnell

You must develop the habit of skepticism, not swallow every piece of superstition you are told by witch-doctors and professors. — Chinua Achebe

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival. — Robert Gottlieb

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me. — Tamara Ecclestone

Giving children the opportunity to stir up life and leave it free to discover. — Maria Montessori

The saying 'flattery gets you everywhere' appalls me. If you're going to pay someone a compliment make sure it's 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to? — Miya Yamanouchi

Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts; therefore, he did not risk writing them down. "I'd rather take it to my grave," he said. And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? "It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie, " he said, "or a lot of lies to cover a single truth. — Michael Finkel

Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The strength of weak people constantly appalls me. Have you ever seen a vine kill an oak tree? Deadly. — Rae Foley

Not far from my apartment, within a stretch of no more than 500 feet, there are two doggie gyms where Gotham's canines who aren't getting enough exercise running through the city's parks, or are neglecting their all-important doggie glutes and abs, can go for a workout. What can I say? This appalls me. — David Rakoff

An ideal world in my own home ... I'm not yet sure why the prospect appalls me quite so much, but I do know somewhere in me that (he) is wrong, that a life without hatred is no life at all, that my children should be allowed to despise whom they like. Now there's a right worth fighting for ... — Nick Hornby

Well, art has to be sexy. — Wade Guyton