Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 36

• The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Way, Poverty, Helping

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• When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Years, Insanity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.107, Routledge

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• The uncomfortable truth is that we all enjoyed the party far too much to query where all the booze was coming from. Now we seem intent on lynching the barman for letting us get drunk and attacking the Government for letting us get a hangover.

  Sean O'Grady

  Party, Hangover, Government

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• It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Speaks Out, Singing

  "Barack Obama address on civil rights in Selma, Alabama - full text", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• ​​​​​​You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone.

  Jojo Moyes

  Comfort, Doe, World

  "Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.

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• I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

  Philippa Gregory

  Dream, Teaching, People

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• And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Seventies, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7414, Delphi Classics

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• I love being entertained sure, but the movies that I live for, the movies that I buy and think about and stay in my mind are the movies that entertain me but leave me with something a little uncomfortable to grapple with in the lobby.

  Justin Simien

  Love Is, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.

  Anderson Cooper

  Order, People, Faces

  "Will Democratic rivals seize on Clinton's contradictions?". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Julie Roginsky, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings around her neck to sell her craft. Then she became a celebrity, so all of the wannabes started following her in that uncomfortable and unhealthy trend. But is that so different from Pamela Anderson? I don't think so.

  Noma Bar

  Thinking, Icons, Different

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• That's the most important thing when you're trying to portray a character for the audience to believe, you have to have the ability to journey in uncomfortable areas in your own personal life - to bring them out and make (the characters) true. Michael Landon is incredible at pulling those (emotions) out of you.

  Drew Waters

  Believe, Character, Journey

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used to it. I don't find it difficult not being drunk when other people are, but I get uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable with where I am.

  Martin Shaw

  Wine, Scotch, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It's uncomfortable for me, but at least they're bouquets. They're not bricks or tomatoes yet, although it's gonna feel nice to get that big, rotten tomato right in the face, just get it out of the way.

  John Fullbright

  Nice, Tomatoes, Rotten

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Meaningful, Brother, Night

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• When you come to a new team, new world, new people, you feel a little bit uncomfortable. But my teammates, they are tremendous guys.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Team, People, Guy

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• When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Stupid, Thinking, Two

  YouTube Chanel "sdfhsfh"/ "Richard Feynman explains the feeling of confusion", www.youtube.com. November 3, 2007.

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• I'm not a hugger. People make fun of me. It's something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my breath. Snuggling, cuddling, hugging, crying - all that stuff makes me very uncomfortable.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fun, Hard Times, Cuddling

  "Angelina Jolie Turns 40 - Her 40 Best Quotes" by Luchina Fisher, abcnews.go.com. June 04, 2015.

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• What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mind, Dull, Truth Is

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• I feel like I'll always feel that I have so much to learn and I don't feel uncomfortable in my skin.

  Jane Levy

  Skins, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.

  Kristen Connolly

  Real, Thinking, Digging

  Source: collider.com

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• I saw a lot of that. It made me uncomfortable. He's been studying me. We don't just sit down and talk, he's actually studying me. It makes me a little uncomfortable being under that microscope. But I think Eric [Bana] immured himself wight he script and is doing what he needed to do

  Ralph Sarchie

  Thinking, Eric, Down And

  Source: collider.com

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• When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."

  Jenny Slate

  People, Laughing, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm someone who is quite uncomfortable if something is different. I like doing things I'm used to in everyday life. So, I always try to push myself outside of that when looking for roles, otherwise I would never do anything different.

  Yasmin Paige

  Everyday, Trying, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Something that I believe is that you're as sick as your secrets. The more open you're able to be, the more you're able to share even the most uncomfortable aspects of yourself, the healthier you'll be.

  Mireille Enos

  Believe, Sick, Secret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always stayed away from the studio environment as much as possible. But I just wanted to see if I could work in one. It's not easy. Just having an engineer's assistant around is enough for me to be uncomfortable. With more than one person there in the room, it feels strange.

  Jack White

  Rooms, Assistants, Strange

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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