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Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve. -- Dick Cavett
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. -- Quentin Crisp
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear. -- Trent Reznor
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. -- Virginia Woolf
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. -- James Lovelock
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. -- Salman Rushdie
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 and active aggression. -- John Oliver
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
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. -- Barbara Amiel
All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant. -- Tove Jansson
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
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 likely you are to be taken for granted. -- Gretchen Rubin
There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future. -- Al Gore
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. -- Richard Bach
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. -- Marcel Proust
Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful. -- George Clooney
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy
I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing. -- Zosia Mamet
If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren't looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph. -- Robert Sheehan
If someone's liver doesn't work, we blame it on the genes; if someone's brain doesn't work properly, we blame the school. It's actually more humane to think of the condition as genetic. For instance, you don't want to say that someone is born unpleasant, but sometimes that might be true. -- James D. Watson
The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy. -- James Surowiecki
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
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 be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with. -- Ayelet Waldman
The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. -- Terry Pratchett
Brothers are so unpleasant. -- George Eliot
Continuity in everything is unpleasant. -- Blaise Pascal
A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body! -- Charles Dickens
Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable. -- Adam Grant
Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant. -- Dan Ariely
You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant? -- Dr. Seuss
Men prefer sweet lies to unpleasant truths -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. -- Edward Heath
Never do anything that is unpleasant to others. -- Emily Post
LIAR, n. One who tells an unpleasant truth. -- Ambrose Bierce
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Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant. -- Ken Starr
No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child. -- Mason Cooley
It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away. -- Thomas Paine
...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. -- Galen Starr Ross
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. -- Baltasar Gracian
Your driving is unpleasant, but it isn't technically unsafe. -- John Green
The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing. -- Juvenal
Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead. -- J. K. Rowling
... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant. -- Alexei Panshin
Better is to speak unpleasant truth than to tell lies. -- Gautama Buddha
Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had. -- Chris Boardman
There's no disillusionment like learning that forbidden fruit can be unpleasant. -- Rae Foley
What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water! -- Douglas Adams
Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences. -- Steig Larsson
I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day. -- Bertrand Russell
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. -- Ram Dass
Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant. -- Multatuli
The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception. -- Allan Lokos
[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant. -- Rex Stout
Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones. -- Hans Selye
When you have children, your house smells very unpleasant all the time. -- Jo Brand
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. -- Walter Bagehot
I find it safer to pursue the powerful, the ugly, the unpleasant. -- Kathy Bates
To be a cult figure in one's own lifetime is most unpleasant. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant. -- Barbara Broccoli
Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. -- Oscar Wilde
There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant. -- Leroy Chiao
Freedom is the liberation of my spirit and my soul from unpleasant condition. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. -- BolesÅ?aw Prus
We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts. -- R.K. Narayan
Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy. -- Sarah Dessen
Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. -- Judith Orloff
We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them. -- Albert Wohlstetter
It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way. -- John Lancaster Spalding
There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant. -- Rick Springfield
The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you. -- Abraham Lincoln
If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. -- Scott McClellan
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. -- George Washington
I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant. -- Lana Wood
Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable. -- William Ralph Inge
I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. -- Sam Raimi
He suggested several unpleasant, unsanitary things I could do to myself at my earliest convenience. -- Patrick Rothfuss
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. -- Lionel Trilling
Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating. -- Janeane Garofalo
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. -- Oliver Goldsmith
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less. -- George Bernard Shaw
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us. -- George Eliot
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... -- Richard Dawkins
If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down -- Daniel Handler
I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go. -- Matt Groening
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant. -- Taron Egerton
Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant. -- Bertrand Russell
If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. -- Ronald Reagan
To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience. -- Lizette Woodworth Reese
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We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. -- Sharon Salzberg
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty. -- Emma Thompson
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated. -- George Eliot
In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood. -- Theodore Roosevelt
One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily. -- Sarada Devi
Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings. -- Cassandra Clare
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant. -- Manny Farber
Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention. -- Pat Brown
The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter. -- Evan Esar
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable. -- Carre Otis
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. -- Alan Moore
It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit -- Epictetus
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences. -- Nelson Mandela
Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands. -- Crane Wilbur

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