94 Unpleasant Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

Learning Events Matter Mistakes Whatever Ourselves Unpleasant Take Steps Reach Learn How Go Order Places Chosen Necessary Bring Need

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

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I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. Virginia Woolf

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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul. W. E. B. Du Bois

Soul Yourself Unpleasant Make Hand Upper Upper Hand Gain Your Things

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

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Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant. Ken Starr

Blame Unpleasant Message Messenger Because

Every principle of liberty enunciated in any civilized country on earth, with very few exceptions, was intended entirely for men, and when women tried to force the putting into practice of these principles, for women, then they discovered they had come into a very, very unpleasant situation indeed. Emmeline Pankhurst

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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

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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

Angry You Memory People Made Somewhere Active Kind Unpleasant Between Passive So Many People Blur Aggression Many Staring

The hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself. One doesn't like to remember unpleasant details, but forgetting them makes one's life seem disorganized. Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Life Truth Remember Tell Details Unpleasant About Seem Oneself Like Makes Forgetting The Hardest Thing Them Disorganized Hardest Hardest Thing Thing

There is nothing more unpleasant than watching someone on a TV or movie set act like they are entitled to a particular kind of treatment just because they have been doing it for longer. We are all in the same boat - one job at a time. Adam Scott

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To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone. Alain de Botton

Alone Marriage Down Unpleasant Charm Shameful How Boils Extent

I think when you have lawyers arguing over whether you can keep a detainee at 46 degrees... for two hours, that's not torture. It may be unpleasant, it may be coercive... but let's say what torture actually is, and that's not it. Alex Berenson

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We can't treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant. Amber Rudd

Treat Find Unpleasant Taboo Because Issues Them

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there. Annie Lennox

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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

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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

Walls South Africa Military Other Latin Latin America Unpleasant Outside Well Sort Course South Dictators America Africa Regime Regimes Apartheid

I started using my blog to get information about cities I was about to visit, asking followers what the main problems there were. Many mentioned misconduct of politicians and other things I wanted to talk about during my shows. Then, before a show in one city, local politicians called saying they would sue if I said something unpleasant. Beppe Grillo

Saying Problems Before Politicians Other Local Visit Cities Would City Unpleasant Followers About Something Misconduct Mentioned Main Talk Said Were Blog Get Wanted Information Then Asking Show Many Using Shows Sue Things Started

On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself. Billy Campbell

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