Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 10

• The poem in which the reader does not feel himself or herself a participant is a lecture, listened to from an uncomfortable chair, in a stuffy room, inside a building.

  Mary Oliver

  Doe, Rooms, Lectures

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dog, Selfish, Nice

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.640, Xist Publishing

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• You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

  Ally Carter

  Tunnels, Shoes, Judging

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• I’d promised myself that I’d really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Talking, Work Out, Brian

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2008). “The Off Season”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Jobs, People

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• DiscomfortWear™, shapewear designed to eliminate rills, ripples, and muffin tops. In some cases known to eliminate circulation and breathing. If you’re not uncomfortable, it’s not DiscomfortWear™.

  Libba Bray

  Breathing, Muffins, Cases

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• Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns Briony's heart to stone. Pressure. Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.

  Franny Billingsley

  Stars, Heart, Moon

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.134, A&C Black

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• My God, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them?" That uncomfortable feeling was spreading over me again. "What about them?" "The color," he breathed. "When you stand in the light. They're amazing... like molten gold. I could paint those..." He reached toward me but then pulled back. "They're beautiful. You're beautiful.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Eye, Light

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.263, Penguin

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• Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Maturity, Feelings, Important

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• Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Clever, Winning

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.509, Tor Science Fiction

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• Being in the uncomfortable zone is much better than staying in the cheese-less situation .

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Cheese

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• In the business world, what’s the female equivalent of going golfing with a client?” Laney gave this some thought. Payton fell silent, too, contemplating. After a few moments, neither of them could come up with anything. How depressing. Payton sighed, feigning resignation. “Well, that’s it. I guess I’ll just have to sleep with them.” Laney folded her hands primly on the table. “I think I’m uncomfortable with this conversation.

  Julie James

  Depressing, Sleep, Thinking

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• I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

  Karen Chance

  School, Emotional, Stuff

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1798, Penguin

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• Thanks,” I say, and Finn looks uncomfortable. Mum used to say he was like a faerie; he didn't like to be thanked. I add, “Sorry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sorry, Add, Looks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.39, Scholastic UK

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• The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Laughter, Ideas

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

  Ricky Gervais

  Dignity, Ends, Liberation

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• I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But two must always struggle for mastery. Two must always watch each other. The eyes of all the world will be on two, uncertain which of them to follow.

  Susanna Clarke

  Struggle, Mean, Eye

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.542, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.

  David Sedaris

  Halloween, People, Asking

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, 2005.

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• You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Different, Matter, Emotion

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.32, Profile Books

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• If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Trying, Peer Pressure

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• …I noticed you don’t have any self-defense training…” “…I can handle myself just fine.” She stared at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. Finally, “In the very short time I’ve known you, you have been chased, shot, robbed, stabbed, drugged, and attacked by magic.” “I’m still breathing, aren’t I?

  Devon Monk

  Self, Breathing, Long

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• Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Rose, Toads

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• I'm just saying it's not time for that either. We need to focus and having Maya moon over Rafe is making everyone uncomfortable." Rafe grinned. "Doesn't bother me.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Moon, Focus, Needs

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• He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mom, Thinking, Dating

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• Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.

  Ashok K. Banker

  Isms, Ends, Middle

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