#appalling

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

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

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

#both #both sides #built #europe #how

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job. ↗

— James Lovelock

#i #job #know #negative #negative way

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me. ↗

— Boy George

#appalling #get #had #i #me

All my friends' mothers were appalling women. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#friends #mothers #were #women

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#band #could #honestly #i #know

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#back #build #energy #good #life

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#life #many #occasioned #once #things

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

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#basic #day #decline #each #economic