Uncomfortable Quotes · Page 39

Why is the government of India uncomfortable with Jamaat-e-Islami? It is an organisation that has worked tirelessly for Kashmiris.

— Mehbooba Mufti

PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body,…

— Ambrose Bierce

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It…

— Tony Judt

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

— Sara Jeannette Duncan

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.

— Moby

David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington…

— Jonathan Yardley

This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But…

— William Klein

I will say that I don't expect anybody to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. Or makes them feel like they're…

— Eric Reid

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry…

— James C. Collins

If you're tweeting - and this is what I tell the young athletes who come to me about these situations, because I've…

— Andrew Hawkins

“And I am very uncomfortable in these clothes. I think too that I am a little frightened. There is not even M.…

— Georgette Heyer

We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push…

— Farrah Gray

I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was…

— Bette Davis

If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall,…

— Anonymous

I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all…

— Viggo Mortensen

Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to?…

— Al Pacino

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but…

— Lawrence Block

It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what…

— Prue Leith

It's uncomfortable to set aside everything I know about America and listen to someone else's perspective. However, it's necessary.

— Trevor Lawrence

Sometimes things that are comfortable are comfortable because it's what you're good at. When you start doing the things you're not as…

— Ira Kaplan

The process of getting conscious, for me, was a very, very uncomfortable, disturbing, and sometimes physically painful process. And so that's the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight…

— John Waters

I want everyone to know what it's like to be very, very uncomfortable and to push themselves anyway. It helps build confidence…

— Jared Isaacman

We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've…

— Jason Mitchell

I always want to be somewhat uncomfortable. But at the same time I want to make music that you react to viscerally.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

— Allison Williams

I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out…

— Elisha Cuthbert

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

— Mary McCormack

“So now you've met my mother,' I say to Jase that night, leaning back on the roof. 'I sure have. That was…

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

“The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [...] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal…

— Manna Francis

There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have…

— Sheridan Morley

I like a role that is challenging. That's what I look for and I'm certainly always looking to move further and maybe…

— Ezra Miller

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

— Richard Tyler

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

— Maya Angelou

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

— Joe Manganiello

Earlier in my career, I wanted to do a lot of things under the radar because I felt uncomfortable in engaging with…

— Chris Long

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to…

— Jim Gaffigan

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any…

— Mark Twain