Zitat des Tages über Schrecklich / Frightful:
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
We're not a fragile people. We're not a frightful people. Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don't look to be ruled.
The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.
A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
