Quotes about Unpleasant

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve. Votes: 3

So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated. Votes: 3

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. Votes: 2

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Votes: 2

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. Votes: 2

Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. Votes: 2

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. Votes: 2

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. Votes: 2

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. Votes: 2

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. Votes: 2

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression. Votes: 2

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions. Votes: 2

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. Votes: 2

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant. Votes: 2

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. Votes: 2

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted. Votes: 2

There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future. Votes: 2

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. Votes: 2

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. Votes: 2

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful. Votes: 2

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. Votes: 2

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing. Votes: 2

If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren't looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph. Votes: 2

If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true. Votes: 2

The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy. Votes: 2

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. Votes: 2

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with. Votes: 2

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. Votes: 2

Brothers are so unpleasant. Votes: 0

Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Votes: 0

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body! Votes: 0

Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable. Votes: 0

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant. Votes: 0

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant? Votes: 0

Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths Votes: 0

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. Votes: 0

Never do anything that is unpleasant to others. Votes: 0

LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth. Votes: 0

I have the feeling I've been"” unpleasant. Votes: 0

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant. Votes: 0

No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child. Votes: 0

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away. Votes: 0

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. Votes: 0

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. Votes: 0

Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe. Votes: 0

The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing. Votes: 0

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead. Votes: 0

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant. Votes: 0

Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant. Votes: 0

Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies. Votes: 0

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had. Votes: 0

There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant. Votes: 0

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water! Votes: 0

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences. Votes: 0

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones. Votes: 0

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day. Votes: 0

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. Votes: 0

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant. Votes: 0

The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths. Votes: 0

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. Votes: 0

The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception. Votes: 0

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. Votes: 0

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones. Votes: 0

When you have children, your house smells very unpleasant all the time. Votes: 0

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. Votes: 0

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. Votes: 0

I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant. Votes: 0

To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant. Votes: 0

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something. Votes: 0

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. Votes: 0

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant. Votes: 0

Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. Votes: 0

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. Votes: 0

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant. Votes: 0

Freedom is the liberation of my spirit and my soul from unpleasant condition. Votes: 0

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. Votes: 0

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts. Votes: 0

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy. Votes: 0

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. Votes: 0

We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them. Votes: 0

It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way. Votes: 0

There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more. Votes: 0

You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant. Votes: 0

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you. Votes: 0

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. Votes: 0

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. Votes: 0

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant. Votes: 0

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable. Votes: 0

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. Votes: 0

He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience. Votes: 0

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. Votes: 0

Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating. Votes: 0

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. Votes: 0

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less. Votes: 0

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. Votes: 0

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... Votes: 0

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down Votes: 0

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go. Votes: 0

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant. Votes: 0

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant. Votes: 0

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. Votes: 0

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience. Votes: 0

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse. Votes: 0

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. Votes: 0

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. Votes: 0

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty. Votes: 0

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. Votes: 0

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. Votes: 0

One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily. Votes: 0

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings. Votes: 0

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man. Votes: 0

The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant. Votes: 0

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention. Votes: 0

The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter. Votes: 0

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable. Votes: 0

There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. Votes: 0

It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water. Votes: 0

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit Votes: 0

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. Votes: 0

Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands. Votes: 0

One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it. Votes: 0

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. Votes: 0

You guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene. Votes: 0

I never had disagreements with [Adolf Hitler], I never saw him in an unpleasant frame of mind. Votes: 0

In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface. Votes: 0

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. Votes: 0

Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant? Votes: 0

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you. Votes: 0

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. Votes: 0

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. Votes: 0

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones. Votes: 0

Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. Votes: 0

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it... Votes: 0

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on. Votes: 0

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. Votes: 0

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me. Votes: 0

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. Votes: 0

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things. Votes: 0

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon. Votes: 0

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. Votes: 0

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity. Votes: 0

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history. Votes: 0

Such an error, one finds, to do things for the best. They usually seem to be such unpleasant things. Votes: 0

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant. Votes: 0

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things. Votes: 0

If you think of spiritual practice as unpleasant work - it is not spiritual practice as I know it. Votes: 0

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. Votes: 0

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth. Votes: 0

All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream Votes: 0

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear. Votes: 0

A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him. Votes: 0

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them. Votes: 0

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight. Votes: 0

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all. Votes: 0

One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth. Votes: 0

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity. Votes: 0

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired. Votes: 0

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do. Votes: 0

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer. Votes: 0

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant. Votes: 0

For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way. Votes: 0

We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. Votes: 0

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about. Votes: 0

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours. Votes: 0

Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body. Votes: 0

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever. Votes: 0

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them. Votes: 0

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true. Votes: 0

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. Votes: 0

We should understand that our problems do not exist outside of ourself, but are part of our mind that experiences unpleasant feelings. Votes: 0

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. Votes: 0

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting. Votes: 0

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. Votes: 0

American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. Votes: 0

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. Votes: 0

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. Votes: 0

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. Votes: 0

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public. Votes: 0

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be. Votes: 0

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. Votes: 0

There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant. Votes: 0

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. Votes: 0

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. Votes: 0

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! Votes: 0

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit. Votes: 0

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. Votes: 0

Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them? Votes: 0

Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life. Votes: 0

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. Votes: 0

Canadians complain too much. 'I like seasons.' So do I; that's why I live in a place that skips the [unpleasant] ones. Votes: 0

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears. Votes: 0

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them. Votes: 0

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones. Votes: 0

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination Votes: 0

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant. Votes: 0

The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. Votes: 0

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things. Votes: 0

Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel. Votes: 0

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. Votes: 0

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. Votes: 0

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others. Votes: 0

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it. Votes: 0

I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet. Votes: 0

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself. Votes: 0

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket. Votes: 0

Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted. Votes: 0

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one? Votes: 0

Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action Votes: 0

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried. Votes: 0

It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism, but one should not suggest that the whole of British industry consists of practices of this kind. Votes: 0

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style. Votes: 0

...I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience. Votes: 0

Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up! Votes: 0

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific. Votes: 0

He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes. Votes: 0

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it. Votes: 0

I've got a secret for you," she whispered with n unpleasant grin on her face, "Something terrible is going to happen. Something terrible... and something wonderful. Votes: 0

This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay. Votes: 0

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. Votes: 0

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant. Votes: 0

People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of candidates would such people elect? Votes: 0

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. Votes: 0

If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it. Votes: 0

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case? Votes: 0

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future. Votes: 0

Just as I defend myself, therefore, From all unpleasant happenings however small, Likewise, I shall act for others' sake To guard and to protect them with compassion. Votes: 0

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up Votes: 0

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog. Votes: 0

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God. Votes: 0

The quicker your forget unpleasant instances and forgive yourself or others for wrong deeds, the better are your chances of focusing on your aspirations and working towards them. Votes: 0

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. Votes: 0

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something. Votes: 0

The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and perhaps unpleasant changes. Votes: 0

Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day. Votes: 0

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please. Votes: 0

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions. Votes: 0

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings. Votes: 0

Do you want to know the easiest way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences of someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones. Votes: 0

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do? Votes: 0

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease. Votes: 0

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love. Votes: 0

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks. Votes: 0

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love. Votes: 0

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences. Votes: 0

DENIALDefense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety. Votes: 0

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages. Votes: 0

I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership. Votes: 0

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority. Votes: 0

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way. Votes: 0

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them. Votes: 0

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes. Votes: 0

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college. Votes: 0

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder. Votes: 0

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion. Votes: 0

But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness. Votes: 0

Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and unpleasant can appear and disappear without conflict, struggle or harm. Rest in a mind like vast sky. Votes: 0

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable. Votes: 0

It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep. Votes: 0

My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide. Votes: 0

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge. Votes: 0

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant. Votes: 0

Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very frightening, and looking absolutely real. Votes: 0

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them. Votes: 0

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires. Votes: 0

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. Votes: 0

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid. Votes: 0

An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant. Votes: 0

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time. Votes: 0

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. Votes: 0

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. Votes: 0

Nausea is a normal but unpleasant effect of pregnancy and a really good sign that it is going well. Women who experience nausea in early pregnancy are less likely to miscarry. Votes: 0

Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done. Votes: 0

Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts. Votes: 0

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward. Votes: 0

People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant. Votes: 0

I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data. Votes: 0

I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm. Votes: 0

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there's some of that too. Votes: 0

There is something to this fabric of life that is beautiful. If you find the world unpleasant, I don't think that is wisdom. That is a sign of a lack of wisdom. Votes: 0

Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience. Votes: 0

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. Votes: 0

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. Votes: 0

I don’t usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things. Votes: 0

You wake up one morning and there it is, sitting in an old plaid bathrobe in your kitchen, unpleasant and unshaved. You look at it, heart sinking. Madness is a rotten guest. Votes: 0

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted. Votes: 0

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. Votes: 0

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight. Votes: 0

His hands slipped from his throat, and he crashed to the ground like a tree falling. "Oh, dear," said Pangborn, gazing at the fallen body of his comrade with fastidious distaste. "How unpleasant. Votes: 0

As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally unaquainted with him; your pleasantry is liable to be misunderstood--a circumstance at all times unpleasant. Votes: 0

Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness. Votes: 0

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular. Votes: 0

I've worked with the old dames and knights - Edith Evans, Ralph Richardson - they're the most incredibly humble, kindly people because they are so big that they don't need to be unpleasant. Votes: 0

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness. Votes: 0

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections. Votes: 0

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime. Votes: 0

I have no remorse. As to whether recollection of my deeds makes me feel ashamed, I will tell you. Thinking back to all the details is not at all unpleasant. I rather enjoy it. Votes: 0

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime. Votes: 0

Judenhass is endlessly disturbing, often unpleasant and incessantly horrifying in its stark coldness. The quotes should never be forgotten or made light of. It is why all people of good will say, 'Never again.' Votes: 0

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire. Votes: 0

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age. Votes: 0

As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude themselves into your awareness. Votes: 0

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few. Votes: 0

I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgement. Votes: 0

I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you. Votes: 0

Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks? Votes: 0

Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives. Votes: 0

Her smile was peculiar - it made her nose wrinkle, not as though she smelled something unpleasant, but more that she was so amused, her whole face wanted to be a part of the smile. Votes: 0

I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities. Votes: 0

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. Votes: 0

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul. Votes: 0

As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway. Votes: 0

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. Votes: 0

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write. Votes: 0

All experiences, what does not kill you makes you stronger and tougher I think. Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant, unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, season you somehow and you learn from them. Votes: 0