28 Ghastly Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out. Joanna Lumley

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The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias. Steven Weinberg

Socialism Gave Nineteenth Ghastly Everywhere Failed Idea Most Influential Banner Which China Centuries Stalin Us Mao Twentieth Utopian

I'm not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I'm so happy that I'm not. I've seen those ladies - the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem. Miranda Hart

It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi. Terry Glavin

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Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both. Anne Roiphe

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I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly. Arabella Weir

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly. Arabella Weir

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I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job. Cullen Bunn

Writing Job College Ghastly Out Small Had Democrat Newspaper Right

For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions. Henning Mankell

Me Political Furious Spend Ghastly Critique Institutions Forced Were Children Poor Who Novel Lives Orphans Oliver Twist Early Treatment

My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry. Honeysuckle Weeks

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Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. James Buchan

I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough, is a hilarious biography of one of the most hideous directors who ever picked up a movie camera - Andy Milligan. John Waters

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them. Kurt Vonnegut

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But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy. Liam Fox

Truth Events Will Predict Pay Ghastly Must Unavoidable Take Never Legacy Labour Where While Confront Us Bills Consequence

In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and culture and lead to its defeat in 1940. Michael Korda

Politics Culture Victory Defeat Consequences France Ghastly Those Divide Price Lead French Germany Which Suffered

I am really proud of where me and Ghastly's track 'Crank It' ended up. It was our first music video and big label release. It was such a dope experience working with OWSLA on that record. Mija

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. Patrick Macnee

Wonderful Invention Ghastly Television Some Itself Lovely Theater Aspects

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal. Richard J. Needham

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I think marriage is ghastly. Rupert Everett

Marriage Think Ghastly

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans? Sylvia Earle

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Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing. Tom Shales

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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? Tony Kushner

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