Best Unpleasant Sayings

406 Unpleasant quotes by 330 unique authors

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take… — Camille Claudel
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play… — Samuel Barber
There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do. — Charles Bukowski
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these… — Antonio Gramsci
Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths:… — Darin Strauss
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in… — Peter Zumthor
...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. — Galen Starr Ross
The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind… — Galen Starr Ross
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment,… — Sylvia Boorstein
People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans'… — Martin Wolf
The more the climate is forced to change, the more likely it is to hit some unforeseen threshold that can trigger quite fast, surprising and… — Richard Alley
Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality.… — John Bolton
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit — Epictetus
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own… — Bill Moyers
An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear… — Warren Buffett
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full… — Doris Grumbach
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. — Nelson Mandela
Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action — Brendan Brazier
To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young… — David Gergen
Their only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth. — George Carlin
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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