In the absence of an answer that is complicated and sort of maybe troubling, we sometimes settle for the easy answer. It's… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“Regalia Mason liked to be early to meetings; it was an interesting way of making others feel uncomfortable. If the most important… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you are always allowed to stop training whenever you feel discomfort, you will find it too easy to give yourself permission… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
You just have to work with your discomfort. ... It’s challenging, but you have to dance the dance that the band’s playing.… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it,… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a product of our civilization. It is not natural to the savage; he feels pain, or discomfort, and suffers from… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
“When you suffer,” Rostam went on, “you can choose to endure, or you can choose to overcome.” He gestured around them, to… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“this world’s a goddamn twilight zone — people wired wrong, hearts half-asleep. so i try to move through it with a little… — Jonathan Harnisch Copy Share Image
There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening,… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Because people's desire to be comfortable supersedes their desire for self knowledge and well being, they avoid any form of discomfort. This… — Ben Stewart Copy Share Image
I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Discomfort is a pain. Boredom is a pain. A perfect piece of music can reduce us to tears. Every one of these… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence… — Robert D. Arnott Copy Share Image
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen,… — Michael Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think the job of a good journalist, especially in Washington, is to create discomfort, and I think for a certain class… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort… — Edward Adam Strecker Copy Share Image
Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
There's just something cathartic about re-experiencing certain moments of awkwardness and discomfort and pain. We all went through it so let's just… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
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