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It’s tempting to leap in like a mother lioness and think, ‘I need to protect my child from that awful kid,’. – Eileen Kennedy-Moore	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It felt awful. I mean it felt terrible because I knew that I was bullied, intimidated, and coerced into saying that just to keep my job and stay at the company. – Abby Grossberg	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Jemma Warner-Gregory would say the phone number and then Jemma Warner-Gregory would get all these awful call-ins that were men asking really dark or sexual questions, and Jemma Warner-Gregory were like, ‘ No, no, no, this is not what Jemma Warner-Gregory want. Click, hang up on him, jemma Warner-Gregory just could n’t get the engagement that Jemma Warner-Gregory wanted. – Denise Warner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We took an attack, which killed an American citizen and wounded a half a dozen others, and retaliated against that attack on the very same day, so there was an awful lot going on in time and space, and a very compressed timeline, we did communicate to Congress, and I think I’ll just leave it at that. – John Kirby	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We will always remember and teach all of that, that is about painful awful history, but there is also a history that is about pride and the culture and the traditions that so many of us have inherited because of that intertwined relationship. – Kamala Harris	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s important to understand that elephants, unlike horses, are not bred to be ridden. They are not domesticated animals and are taken from the wild and kept in awful conditions. – Edwin Wiek	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I do n’t want to take my son out of the preschool they’re in because I really like the teachers he has, but I ’m still scared. Some teachers have even expressed their concerns about the air quality, we are very fortunate that we rent our home. Did n’t think I would ever say that. I feel awful for my landlord, but I just ca n’t risk my family’s health. – Amanda Greathouse	Found on CNN 1 year ago
At best, these travel vloggers who visit Afghanistan are clueless and naive, at worst, they are useful idiots whose opportunism helps whitewash the Taliban’s awful crimes. – Arash Azizzada	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was awful. As soon as I heard the news, I rushed there. And with my own bare hands, with my own means, with great effort I tried to pull out my daughter. However, unfortunately, I couldn’t save my daughter, losing a mother, a father or siblings aside, losing a child is on another level of despair. – Mesut Hancer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Vinyl chloride, however, has a specific and important risk in that is contains a bunch of chlorine molecules, which can form some really awful combustion byproducts, these are often very toxic and often very persistent in the environment. – Richard Peltier	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I Want To See I want to live in a world where everyone loves everyone, Despite our differences. Where instead of religious rules we go by our morals and what we were taught growing up, Because as a little kid, they teach us that life ahead of us is worth it because we love people, And we help them back u on their feet as they do for us. I want to see an era where we stop fighting over such little things, Because history taught us that fighting leads to war, And war, to death. We don't want to see the people we love die, When we love everyone, and they love us, nobody would need to die, Nobody would need to fight. I want to see leadership found on respect and integrity, For what we've been doing has gotten us nowhere. I want to see a media free of arguments and awful words, If it is meant for entertainment then it should make us all happy rather than sad. I want to see a world where we all see the better in each other. There is no other way to make it all ok. - Anonymous – Anonymous	added by samanthal.26354 1 year ago
You feel awful, but there’s nothing you can do. You’re fighting against a system that’s collapsing. – Jatinder Hayre	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you walk into the hospital in the morning, you’re met with this cacophony of grief and dismay and dissatisfaction from patients, who are lined up in the corridor, you feel awful, but there’s nothing you can do. You’re fighting against a system that’s collapsing. – Jatinder Hayre	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is both awful and mundane, just another day that Paul has to suffer in a Russian labor colony for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Another day that our parents have to suffer without being able to see or be with their son, it is both a culmination of lost life – four years of missed birthdays, Christmases, and other experiences – and also not an end point. – American Paul Whelan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is obviously a challenge for the chief justice, bringing the court into a new term and getting this leak in the rearview mirror, but the court hasn't had this kind of leak before and that's to the benefit of the court, a signal that as awful as the leak was, it's not a sign the institution needs fundamental reform. – Paul Clement	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's an awful lot of symbolic value attached to whether we're in a recession, it is taken seriously up on the Hill and by policy makers across the country, it's important. – Richard Wolff	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I was a portfolio manager in the 1970s and the mood in America was awful, and we are right back where we were, and it really strikes me as tragic for our country, that we are repeating the mistakes of the 70s in our current times because Congress didn’t do its job in calling convention to propose a fiscal responsibility amendment in 1979, america today is feeling the decline in prosperity of families because of inflation at 9%. – David Biddulph	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It’s a complete 180 from their typical bail policies, it leaves the public amid an awful crime spree shaking their heads and wondering what’s going on. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's really scary. We have to tell the patients,' we'll put you on a schedule, but we don't know what tomorrow holds.' And as a patient, that is absolutely terrifying to hear, as a provider, that's devastating. Turn somebody away ? That's awful. Say' I can't take care of you because the government says I can't' ? When I know that this is safe and that your bodily autonomy is first and foremost ? – Jennifer Lincoln	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We really would like the government to put more money into this, if we don't, then there's going to be an awful situation for so many people coming from a war zone being completely traumatized, being thrown into a system in which they don't know what's going on. – Denise Scott-McDonald	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We got through the dance, and now we're looking at the pieces of the puzzle to decide what are the pieces that we didn't get, but we also got an awful lot of pieces to the puzzle put together. We have a pretty good idea what the puzzle looks like at this point. – Tom Whitmeyer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The consequences of turning an important, high-stakes tool for ensuring child welfare into a culture-war instrument are almost too awful to contemplate. – Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Even doing your best work and enjoying the results of that, there is a reasonable amount to a great amount of stress, and if one can learn to accept that joyfully, one can be stressed and understand that he or she is having a good time also. And so, I've enjoyed an awful lot of that through my career. – Norman Lear	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's awful, it's sad. My daughter-in-law is from Buffalo, so now it's so close to home, it's not even safe if you come outside anymore, you know ? – Lachelle Nathan	Found on CNN 2 years ago

It’s tempting to leap in like a mother lioness and think, ‘I need to protect my child from that awful kid,’.

– Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It felt awful. I mean it felt terrible because I knew that I was bullied, intimidated, and coerced into saying that just to keep my job and stay at the company.

– Abby Grossberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Jemma Warner-Gregory would say the phone number and then Jemma Warner-Gregory would get all these awful call-ins that were men asking really dark or sexual questions, and Jemma Warner-Gregory were like, ‘ No, no, no, this is not what Jemma Warner-Gregory want. Click, hang up on him, jemma Warner-Gregory just could n’t get the engagement that Jemma Warner-Gregory wanted.

– Denise Warner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We took an attack, which killed an American citizen and wounded a half a dozen others, and retaliated against that attack on the very same day, so there was an awful lot going on in time and space, and a very compressed timeline, we did communicate to Congress, and I think I’ll just leave it at that.

– John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will always remember and teach all of that, that is about painful awful history, but there is also a history that is about pride and the culture and the traditions that so many of us have inherited because of that intertwined relationship.

– Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s important to understand that elephants, unlike horses, are not bred to be ridden. They are not domesticated animals and are taken from the wild and kept in awful conditions.

– Edwin Wiek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I do n’t want to take my son out of the preschool they’re in because I really like the teachers he has, but I ’m still scared. Some teachers have even expressed their concerns about the air quality, we are very fortunate that we rent our home. Did n’t think I would ever say that. I feel awful for my landlord, but I just ca n’t risk my family’s health.

– Amanda Greathouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

At best, these travel vloggers who visit Afghanistan are clueless and naive, at worst, they are useful idiots whose opportunism helps whitewash the Taliban’s awful crimes.

– Arash Azizzada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was awful. As soon as I heard the news, I rushed there. And with my own bare hands, with my own means, with great effort I tried to pull out my daughter. However, unfortunately, I couldn’t save my daughter, losing a mother, a father or siblings aside, losing a child is on another level of despair.

– Mesut Hancer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Vinyl chloride, however, has a specific and important risk in that is contains a bunch of chlorine molecules, which can form some really awful combustion byproducts, these are often very toxic and often very persistent in the environment.

– Richard Peltier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I Want To See I want to live in a world where everyone loves everyone, Despite our differences. Where instead of religious rules we go by our morals and what we were taught growing up, Because as a little kid, they teach us that life ahead of us is worth it because we love people, And we help them back u on their feet as they do for us. I want to see an era where we stop fighting over such little things, Because history taught us that fighting leads to war, And war, to death. We don't want to see the people we love die, When we love everyone, and they love us, nobody would need to die, Nobody would need to fight. I want to see leadership found on respect and integrity, For what we've been doing has gotten us nowhere. I want to see a media free of arguments and awful words, If it is meant for entertainment then it should make us all happy rather than sad. I want to see a world where we all see the better in each other. There is no other way to make it all ok. - Anonymous

– Anonymous

added by samanthal.26354
1 year ago

You feel awful, but there’s nothing you can do. You’re fighting against a system that’s collapsing.

– Jatinder Hayre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you walk into the hospital in the morning, you’re met with this cacophony of grief and dismay and dissatisfaction from patients, who are lined up in the corridor, you feel awful, but there’s nothing you can do. You’re fighting against a system that’s collapsing.

– Jatinder Hayre

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is both awful and mundane, just another day that Paul has to suffer in a Russian labor colony for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Another day that our parents have to suffer without being able to see or be with their son, it is both a culmination of lost life – four years of missed birthdays, Christmases, and other experiences – and also not an end point.

– American Paul Whelan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is obviously a challenge for the chief justice, bringing the court into a new term and getting this leak in the rearview mirror, but the court hasn't had this kind of leak before and that's to the benefit of the court, a signal that as awful as the leak was, it's not a sign the institution needs fundamental reform.

– Paul Clement

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's an awful lot of symbolic value attached to whether we're in a recession, it is taken seriously up on the Hill and by policy makers across the country, it's important.

– Richard Wolff

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was a portfolio manager in the 1970s and the mood in America was awful, and we are right back where we were, and it really strikes me as tragic for our country, that we are repeating the mistakes of the 70s in our current times because Congress didn’t do its job in calling convention to propose a fiscal responsibility amendment in 1979, america today is feeling the decline in prosperity of families because of inflation at 9%.

– David Biddulph

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It’s a complete 180 from their typical bail policies, it leaves the public amid an awful crime spree shaking their heads and wondering what’s going on.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's really scary. We have to tell the patients,' we'll put you on a schedule, but we don't know what tomorrow holds.' And as a patient, that is absolutely terrifying to hear, as a provider, that's devastating. Turn somebody away ? That's awful. Say' I can't take care of you because the government says I can't' ? When I know that this is safe and that your bodily autonomy is first and foremost ?

– Jennifer Lincoln

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We really would like the government to put more money into this, if we don't, then there's going to be an awful situation for so many people coming from a war zone being completely traumatized, being thrown into a system in which they don't know what's going on.

– Denise Scott-McDonald

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We got through the dance, and now we're looking at the pieces of the puzzle to decide what are the pieces that we didn't get, but we also got an awful lot of pieces to the puzzle put together. We have a pretty good idea what the puzzle looks like at this point.

– Tom Whitmeyer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The consequences of turning an important, high-stakes tool for ensuring child welfare into a culture-war instrument are almost too awful to contemplate.

– Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even doing your best work and enjoying the results of that, there is a reasonable amount to a great amount of stress, and if one can learn to accept that joyfully, one can be stressed and understand that he or she is having a good time also. And so, I've enjoyed an awful lot of that through my career.

– Norman Lear

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's awful, it's sad. My daughter-in-law is from Buffalo, so now it's so close to home, it's not even safe if you come outside anymore, you know ?

– Lachelle Nathan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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