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406 Unpleasant quotes by 330 unique authors

Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison. — P.J. O'Rourke
You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of… — John Steinbeck
A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if… — Emmet Fox
In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked… — E. M. Forster
These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time… — Thomas Paine
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from… — Bill Gates
I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity. — Kelsey Grammer
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him. — Sophocles
If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. — Keith Henson
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. — George Eliot
I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it happens, I think… — Henry Cavill
Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading. Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like -… — Neil Gaiman
If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead… — Gregory Palamas
The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried. — Charles Hamilton Houston
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more… — Gretchen Rubin
Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies. — Gautama Buddha
Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront… — Nathaniel Branden
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life. — C.S. Lewis
All objects whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, are mere appearances to the mind just like things experienced in a dream — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression… — John Oliver
When I stopped making films, they were getting on to the more realistic films and the explicit films and all. They were depicting life as… — Danny Kaye
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. — Oliver Goldsmith
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid… — Barbara Amiel
My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite… — Wallace Shawn
Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant. — Bertrand Russell

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