I think that in order to write really well and…

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance,…

— Edna Ferber

It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few…

— Edna Ferber

“What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as…

— Alain de Botton

“If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

— Anonymous

Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will…

— Francesco Guicciardini

It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like…

— Sarah Dessen

Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with…

— Paul Pearsall

“For any display of displeasure or anger against injustice and ungodliness, there is a reward and a godly result.”

— Sunday Adelaja

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

— James Joyce

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

— Anonymous

I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

A man in love ... is the master, so it seems, but only if his lady friend permits it! The need to interchange the…

— Anne Desclos

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the…

— Maya Angelou