#dreadful

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#barren #cases #consequence #death #dreadful

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dreadful #integrity #knowledge #useless #weak

If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#dreadful #half #hang #interest #might

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#afterwards #comedy #comic #depths #dreadful

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#america #arrived #bad #company #dreadful

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#artist #business #dreadful #fighters #follow

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography. ↗

— George Santayana

#controlled #dreadful #geography #indignity #me

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. ↗

— Anne Smedley

#decisive #dreadfully #something

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#dreadfully #every #every time #family #go

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. ↗