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Quotes About Unwelcome

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.
~ Warren Buffett
You have the singular ability to turn up exactly where you are most unwanted." She
~ James Swallow
Unwanted, unasked, unwelcome as ever, here I am.' 'Again,' said Lymond.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
~ Douglas Adams
There was someone from China who came down to my house and locked himself outside the gate. He wanted to marry me and created a lot of trouble. I had to eventually report to the police and put him behind the bars.
~ Asha Parekh
The kid said: "I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.
~ Raymond Chandler
Ingrta sunt beneficia quibus comes est metus. (Publilius Sent.: ingrtus, -a, -um, ungrateful, thankless; unwelcome, displeasing; "ingrate," "ingratitude."—comes, comitis, m./ f., companion; "concomitant," "count," i.e., a nobleman's title.)
~ Richard A. LaFleur
It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible.
~ Richard Ford
The searing light of morning Asks unwelcome questions, Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.
~ Scott Hastie
He looked like a man who'd invited himself to dinner only to discover that the special of the day was a plateful of shit.
~ William Kent Krueger
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
~ Germaine Greer
But he was beginning to grow old. He slept more than had been his wont, and bit by bit his long daily runs were shortening. As with some fastidious elderly bachelor or spinster, the approach of age made Lad fussily averse to any disturbing change in the routine of his placid daily life. Strangers and guests were increasingly unwelcome to him.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Something of a pattern had started to form and it was ugly.
~ Jeff Rice
Once again my aggravating but useful child rescued me from an unwelcome guest.
~ Elizabeth Peters
Fear is one of my belongings. Fear will always be a part of any belonging, anywhere, that I ever do, for the rest of my life. I fought hard, to get here to your country. And the first thing you did when I arrived was hand me a letter saying, "Welcome to a country in which you are not welcome. You are now a designated unwelcome person with whom we will do as we please.
~ Ali Smith
I have heard it said we are the uninvited. We are the unwelcome. We should take our misfortune elsewhere. But I hear your mother's voice, over the tide. and she whispers in my ear, Oh, but if they saw, my darling. Even half of what you have. If only they saw. They would say kinder things, surely.
~ Khaled Hosseini
This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.
~ Gary Bettman
Now... what I feel these in my brain is just like... some kind of foreign body... like having a very thin little eyelash in your eye. You feel generally okay, but that eye with the last in it-you can't get it off your mind for a second.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Zombies were an accident - much like champagne and penicillin, but much less welcome. Necromancers weren't working on a way to turn people into shambling pieces of unintelligent rot-" - Kenspeckle
~ Derek Landy
Usually the last thing anyone or anything needs is me.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I tried not to think of this as an omen, but unwelcome thoughts enter my head all the time.
~ Abigail Thomas
The only kind of calls you get this early in the morning are the bad ones.
~ Jenny Han
Nasty thoughts are more like worms in the cauliflower!
~ Amos Oz
I returned to Moscow from Italy to find everything in a foul state. My room at home full of guests, smoking, loud music, wine and brandy spilt on the table. Quite revolting.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky