I don't like upsetting people.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

— John Ruskin

You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young…

— Tyne Daly

Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations…

— Sara Pascoe

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

— Laura Schlessinger

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing…

— Matt Drudge

I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making…

— Brice Marden

It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss…

— Joanne Woodward

We would never do anything for the sole purpose of bumming people out or upsetting people.

— Justin Roiland

Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.

— Craig Ferguson

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

— Geri Halliwell

You always regret upsetting people needlessly.

— Mary Beard

“Obviously as a writer you have to reflect on why your work is provoking such hostility, because all you want to do is write…

— James Kelman

“We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.”

— Françoise Sagan

I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them.…

— Otto Frank

There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.

— Craig Stevens