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War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong. -- Martin Sheen
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. -- Tim Bishop
I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years. -- Boy George
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. -- Gertrude Stein
It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote. -- Arlen Specter
There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life. -- Al Pacino
Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. -- Cary Grant
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world. -- Germaine Greer
Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment. -- Anthony Lewis
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. -- Eric Alterman
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. -- George Orwell
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. -- Warren Buffett
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business. -- Fran Kranz
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul. -- Julia Ward Howe
I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash. -- Scott Turow
It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve -- Mark Twain
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... -- Andre Gide
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin. -- Frances Parkinson Keyes
If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change. -- Kathleen Norris
The future comes like an unwelcome guest. -- Edmund Gosse
Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests. -- Anne Rice
Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded. -- Frank Sinatra
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you. -- Aidan Chambers
If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths. -- Mason Cooley
There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence. -- Jack McDevitt
The searing light of morningAsks unwelcome questions,Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight. -- Scott Hastie
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. -- Plautus
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes. -- Yohji Yamamoto
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. -- Scott Hahn
If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear. -- Phil Jackson
Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay. -- Deepak Chopra
We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful. -- Samuel Johnson
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence. -- H. P. Blavatsky
Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation. -- David Ogilvy
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. -- Gail Carson Levine
Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. -- Semir Zeki
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures. -- George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest. -- Robin Sharma
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa. -- Niels Bohr
I'm going to carry you now," he told her, "so we can move even faster. I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome. -- Suzanne Brockmann
The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end. -- Winifred Holtby
Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near. -- Lewis Carroll
The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through. -- Stephen King
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves. -- Eli Siegel
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray. -- Christopher Hitchens

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