Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?
And broken both your hearts? How would that have benefited me? You are as dear to me as another half of my soul, Jem. I could not be happy while you were unhappy. And Tessa—she loves you. What sort of awful monster would I be, delighting in causing the two people I love the most in the world agony simply that I might have the satisfaction of knowing that if Tessa could not be mine, she could not be anybody’s?
I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.
Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.
I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.
I am a fan of sequels even though they are inevitably awful.
It's just a big excuse to say awful things.
I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.
If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it's gotta sting a little bit.
New York is a wonderful place to be up, an awful place to be down.
In Lubbock, we grew up with two main things: God loves you and he's gonna send you to hell, and that sex is bad and dirty and nasty and awful and you should save it for the one you love.
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
I opened the door and Lend smiled. 'They look better on you. ' 'Wow, they must look just awful on you then. ' I smiled back.
I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.