Best Unpleasant Qoutes
406 Unpleasant quotes by 330 unique authors
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I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've…
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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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…
— Ayelet Waldman
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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…
— David Foster Wallace
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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
— Virginia Woolf
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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…
— Derek Landy
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct…
— Voltaire
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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,…
— Libba Bray
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Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went…
— Jane Austen
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak;…
— Richard Dawkins
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Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts,…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
— Harper Lee
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We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses…
— Edward R. Murrow
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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But…
— Anne Lamott
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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,…
— Marya Hornbacher
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is…
— C.S. Lewis
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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…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
— Jane Austen
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Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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…
— T.C. Boyle
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The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
— Ram Dass
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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…
— Oswald Chambers
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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…
— Douglas Adams
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[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
— Rex Stout
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If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
— Ronald Reagan
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