Quotes of: Unpleasant Keyword

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Hocus Pocus

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

Indiscretion

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

The Reengineers

Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance

Sarah's Key

The gift of life is present at every moment — even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

What makes somebody nice or unpleasant to be around is the way they communicate. When people are fucked up, their communication is fucked up.

In the Miso Soup

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

Life, the Universe and Everything

Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.

Mind In Chains

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Pride and Prejudice

Leaving from your body might sometimes be an unpleasant experience for you, if that is what you have built your identity around

The Perfect World

He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience.

The Wise Man's Fear

LADY BRACKNELL This noise is extremely unpleasant. It sounds as if he was having an argument. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

In a way, I'd rather go into an interview and be disliked, and have unpleasant things written about me, than to have a wonderful, glowing article written that is in no way a reflection of who I am.

Romola Garai

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Slavoj Zizek

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

Louis Kronenberger

Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there. In some European countries, businesses were even allowed to deduct bribes ...

James Surowiecki

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

Tyler Cowen

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

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

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 my hammer and I squash a figure.

Camille Claudel