Top 104 Atrocious Quotes & Sayings

I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.

So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

Yup, I'm not good at selling myself, my PR skills are atrocious.

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

I've been involved in a couple of atrocious World Cups.

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

I have to admit to the occasional need for 'Come Dine with Me.' I am the most atrocious cook, and that's probably why I find it so entertaining. It looks exotic to me.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.

The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.

Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel's fans, and blighted my reputation forever.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Past leaders chose deregulated globalization. They said it would be happy; it turned out to be atrocious.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious.

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women.

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kids are on their keyboards so much, between their smartphones and laptops, no one writes anything anymore. It's atrocious.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!'

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Not all Tories are atrocious heartless fiends, I concede. But those who wield hunger as a weapon while claiming their own meals on expenses, are beyond satire.

I'm wary of government. Part of [the Tea Party] impulse is to dislike and be worried about the rich. I'm that way too. So I don't find them to be as atrocious as most people do, as your liberals do. I'm not a liberal.

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

My ideal fight would be against the smallest guy with the most atrocious record in the largest venue for the most insane paycheck. I love easy fights.

Federal spending is atrocious.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.

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One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress.

One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church.

The grunge thing was a little bit atrocious. 'Let's all put on plaid shirts and be as dirty as possible!'

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Violence makes people commit atrocious evil without even realizing it.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.