Unwelcome Quotes - Page 3

• The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

  Edmund Gosse

  Guests

  Edmund Gosse (1873). “On Viol and Flute”, p.27

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• 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

  Loss, Order, Grace

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• Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

  Anne Rice

  Dream, Sleep, Guests

  Anne Rice (2001). “Blood and gold, or, The story of Marius”

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• It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

  Mark Twain

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lying, Humorous, Sarcasm

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.230, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

  Gregory Maguire

  Memories, Real, Heart

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• She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Ideas, Shapes, Fierce

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1124, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Moving, Asking, Unnecessary

  Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.369, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Lonely, School, Teeth

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• If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

  Scott Hahn

  Faith, Christian, Spiritual

  Scott Hahn (2009). “Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots”, p.91, Image

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• The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Rain, Night, Lasts

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.284, e-artnow

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• You can help each other, Max, said the unwelcome voice. You're perfect complements to each other. "Shut up!" I hissed under my breath, and Dylan looked startled. "I didn't say anything." Gritting my teeth, I nodded. "No, I know. It's just-" I decided to take a risk and stare him down. "I hear voices, okay? If you're gonna be here, get used to it. Or else keep your distance.

  James Patterson

  Distance, Voice, Perfect

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• 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

  Henry Kissinger, Trustworthy, Accepting

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1565, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We’d spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I’d won his respect. I’d had werewolves love me and hate me, but I’d never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hate, Years, Two

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• The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Grief, Men

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• You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

  Dorothea Lange

  Heart, People, Tree

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• There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

  Al Pacino

  Self, Doubt, Events

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• If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.

  Phil Jackson

  Hands, Matter, Way

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• We obviously don't want to cause problems for the Afghan government, President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people. In fact, we want them to support our efforts on their behalf and not see us as unwelcome occupiers.

  David Petraeus

  Government, People, Effort

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• I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist one. Unfortunately, from that it does not follow that there is such a solution. Many philosophers find this an unwelcome message, and as often happens in philosophy, they punish the messenger by ascribing to him an entirely imaginary but untenable position.

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Country, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be very absurd, and consequently very unwelcome in company. He may say very good things; but they will be probably so ill-timed, misplaced, or improperly addressed, that he had much better hold his tongue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Doe, World

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• 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

  Light, Soul, Brain

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• The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

  Aidan Chambers

  Facts, Sometimes, Sometimes In Life

  Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.93, Abrams

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• 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

  Ignorance, Ease, Stranger

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.100

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