Top 75 Appalling Quotes

I’d like to create a character that is completely appalling, that it would make the audience tremble.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don’t impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.

The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Selling a lifestyle – whether it’s a brand or an Instagram post – which teaches not just girls but people that your value is defined by what you look like is the most appalling thing that I could think of, especially as a woman.

I think it’s ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Potentially, I would be very interested in being a shock jock, though Ofcom might be tricky. Some of the American stuff is appalling, wild stuff, crazy conspiracy theories.

There’s still a lot I’m angry about, a lot of human behaviour that’s appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

I loathe the word ‘celebrity,’ and I hope I’m not a diva. Whenever I see diva-ish behaviour, I just leave the room; I find it appalling. You should always try to be civil to people.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

Before I turned 30, I worked to create Ksenia Sobchak. Ksenia Sobchak turned out to be appalling and terrible in some respects, but nice in others.

Some of the world’s most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

All my friends’ mothers were appalling women.

I’ve had five weddings but if I’m really honest and if I count significant de factos… I’ve had nine husbands… which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I’m 65 it’s not so bad.

I’m in total sympathy with Dick Smith’s sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.

I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was… appalling… always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

I’m not saying that all politicians are awful. I don’t know any of them well enough to say whether they’re awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that’s appalling. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised any longer.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me – that, I think, would be terrifying.

Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It’s a strange business to begin with – rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box. It’s ugly, the suspension’s appalling, you rattle around like pebbles in a tin, and you can’t hear yourself speak above the engine.

I’m very much against war; I’m very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

The appalling racial injustice inherent in the Trayvon Martin tragedy reminds us that there is still much to do.

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.

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

I hope that there’s a difference between being childish and childlike and that I’m the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don’t think I’m a terribly good grown-up; I don’t take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I’m absolutely appalling.

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you’ve seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.

I’m an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason – I just sob if there’s turbulence.

TV drama – not always, but on the whole – were pretty appalling and very secondary, too. No one expected it to be like watching a movie; that was the point. But I think when you start watching ‘Vikings,’ it is like watching a movie – you’re taken somewhere else.

I have the most dreadfully appalling eyesight. I’m really shortsighted and have been since I was about five. I was the speccy girl with the pink National Health glasses. That’s my physical vulnerability, and I wish I could put it right, but I can’t – even with surgery.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

It is appalling that President Obama would cut off federal health care dollars to Florida in an effort to force our state further into Obamacare.

Regardless of who I am, racism against anyone, anywhere should be appalling to everyone, everywhere.

The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I’m certainly not tempted.

If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.

I wasn’t very good at school and appalling at English.

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

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I’m appalling. I also bought several guitars.

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.