Zitat des Tages über Erschreckend / Appalling:
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
I had lived with abuse for many years, but the worst abuse has been at my own hands and the appalling situations I have tolerated.
The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.
I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.
Well, I had the most appalling childhood.
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
To be 64 is appalling, so what does it matter being 65?
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.
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
The violence in the Bible is appalling.
In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.
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.
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.
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.
What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.
We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better.
It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.
Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.
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.
There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.
People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.
It is truly appalling for Senator Mark Kirk to equate the Obama Administration's diplomacy with Nazi appeasement. As a Jewish-American, I am offended.
It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
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.
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.
I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
