Quotes About Uncomfortable

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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.

It's like a fart in church.

Technology and the pace of change in media is pushing us into an uncomfortable area The media have perhaps become more cavalier towards pushing confidential information.

It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

People like Eunice just never had quite figured out how to get along in the world. They might be perfectly intelligent, but they were subject to speckles and flushes; their purses resembled wastepaper baskets; they stepped on their own skirts.

Pantyhose feel weird.

It was great, wasn't it? Really exciting stuff. (Chris) Like having my teeth drilled without Novocain. (Cassandra)

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

And what's the first rule between masters and apprentices?" he asked her. She heaved a deep sigh. "If a job is dirty and unpleasant or uncomfortable, it's a job for the apprentice," she replied.

monachopsis n. the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach—lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognize the ambient roar of your intended habitat, in which you'd be fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.

She swallowed uncomfortable dryness at the unprecedented endearment, trying not to remember he'd been as affectionate to Mr. Priest when she was not meant to overhear.

Somebody was touching me. Farweather. I wanted to recoil, but instead my body twitched feebly and lay still. She had pillowed my head on something uncomfortable, bony, and soft. Her thigh. She petted my hair.

Gentle wasn't the right word. Not really. But the man's fingers had cradled Cahey's skull in a tender curve, a touch that was as affectionate as it was uncomfortable. And so very wrong, for a business translation.

Life is terribly awkward and uncomfortable, so we spend our time searching for those who make it all a little less unpleasant.

My father tolerated no dramatics of any kind. I'm not certain which is more devilish uncomfortable—too many emotions or none at all.

What?" she said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable under his scrutiny. She knew it was silly. He'd seen her at her absolute worst. "You just look so... cute," he said. "Clearly breaking the law excites you.

I am definitely scary to a lot of people. I talk about realities that some folks just don't want to hear.

I hate getting haircuts. It's like going to the damn dentist, man.

It's easy to want to change, but it's hard to actually change. Very, really hard. You have to be willing to be uncomfortable, enter the unknown, do things your ego doesn't want to do. You have to value being true to what you glimpse as possible—to the heart of your heart

it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring them to conviction of sin. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I

The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.