Unpleasant Quotes

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.