Upset Quotes - Page 18

• Choose today to let the peace of Christ rule in your heart and have an attitude of gratitude toward the Lord. Even if you have things that are upsetting you, take a step of faith and begin to thank God for His goodness in your life. Thank Him for working behind the scenes on your behalf. As you do, you will walk forward into the life of blessing He has in store for you!

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Attitude

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Hope for Today Bible”, p.1364, Simon and Schuster

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• What is happening now is of a geological and biological order of magnitude. We are upsetting the entire earth system that, over some billions of years and through an endless sequence of groping, of trials and errors, has produced such a magnificent array of living forms, forms capable of seasonal self-renewal over vast periods of time.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Animal, Errors

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• Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

  Kenny Rogers

  Age, Growing, Aging

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• I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

  Tupac Shakur

  Brother, Mistake, Stress

  Song: Ghetto Gospel, Album: Loyal to the Game, 2004

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• Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Kids, May

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• Where I come from, taxpayers get justifiably upset that illegals can keep getting aid when we are cutting programs that help full-fledged U.S. citizens.

  J. James Exon

  Cutting, Immigration, Citizens

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• To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

  Eric Hoffer

  Justice, Diversity, Soul

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

  Bernhard Langer

  Golf, Important, Saint

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• Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.'

  Catriona Le May Doan

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.

  P. W. Singer

  Revenge, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Military, War, Air

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• He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Sarcastic, Two

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• How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

  Charles Dudley Warner

  War, Hate, Men

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”

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• I think I am upsetting the coach.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Thinking, Coaches

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• I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Sorry, Problem

  "Did Coach Knight Get the Punishment He Deserved?". "TalkBack Live", www.cnn.com. May 16, 2000.

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• If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won't compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Suffering, Machines, Emotion

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• You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  World, Realizing, Consciousness

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• Whenever you feel upset, take full responsibility for the emotions that you are experiencing. Get to work as quickly as possible identifying the programming, or the addiction, that is leading you to reject what other people are saying or doing.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Responsibility, People, Addiction

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• At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

  Hilary Duff

  Life Lesson, People, Energy

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• Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

  Victor Borge

  Funny, Reading, Book

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• Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

  Maggie Smith

  Motherhood, Toby, Maggie

  "You have to laugh". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

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• There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit.

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Goal, Mind

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• Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Character, Science, Balance

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• Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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