Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 6

• I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

  Norm MacDonald

  Religious, Thinking, Political Opinions

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• As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Challenges, Needs

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• In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

  Shirley Manson

  People, Armor, Nerves

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• I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

  John Mayer

  Pain, Car, People

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• Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

  Angela Merkel

  Two, Issues, People

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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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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• Rachel, you take her,” my mother said, clearly uncomfortable. “She might like you.” “No. Mom, no!” I protested, but it was my mother we were talking about, and it was either take the baby or have her hit the floor.

  Kim Harrison

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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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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• 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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• I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.

  John Green

  Dad, Home, Feelings

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.65, Penguin

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• Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, Laziness, Made

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• I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable about this," he says. Say: "Hey. I am a very cool person. I am tough." Show him your bicep.

  Lorrie Moore

  Want, Cool Person, Hey

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Self-Help”, p.13, Vintage

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• Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

  Germaine Greer

  Spring, Sadness, Creative

  Germaine Greer (2014). “The Whole Woman”, p.217, Random House

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• Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Book, Responsibility

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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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• You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Mean, Looks, Lingerie

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2001). “Narcissus in Chains: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.188, Penguin

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• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Desire, Skins, Apathy

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• They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

  James Salter

  Falling In Love, Mean, Men

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• Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fire, Escaping, Uncomfortable Situations

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those. It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group. . .anything.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Hate, Character, Race

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• I'm sorry." About what?" He shrugged, made uncomfortable by the question."I'm not sure. It's a Canadian thing.

  Tanya Huff

  Sorry, Made, Not Sure

  Tanya Huff (2005). “Smoke and Shadows”, p.200, Penguin

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• I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Pay, Should, Charging

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• If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Care, Should, Feels

  Louisa May Alcott (2000). “The Portable Louisa May Alcott”, p.400, Penguin

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• I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Morning, Past, Insomnia

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “The Little Nugget”, p.40, The Floating Press

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