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Quotes About Uncomfortable

Write beautifully what people don't want to hear.
~ Frederick Seidel
For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
~ Stephen Richards
Eventually, I decided that if he opened his eyes again and saw me there, it'd be uncomfortable for both of us, and Barlen preserve me from ever being uncomfortable.
~ Steven Brust
You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.
~ Ken Starr
Now people who keep fish disturb me the most, if I'm totally honest. They always smell a bit like fish food and they know just a bit too much about eels.
~ Claudia Winkleman
'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
~ Kate Winslet
Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.
~ Michael Richardson
Transformation is the result of big shifts in perceptions and responses. The process can be uncomfortable, since the mind is reluctant to notice itself, to take responsibility for its stories, and to change. When the mind is in acute resistance, the emotional body pays a price.
~ Miguel Ruiz
After all, he was only a man, with a man's dislike of difficult or awkward situations.
~ Bram Stoker
Better not to sit on a hedgehog if you are naked.
~ Bulgakov Mikhail
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
~ Carl Sagan
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, Well, isn't this nice.
~ Terry Pratchett
Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.
~ Terry Pratchett
There's something I gotta tell you," he said in a confidential tone as he leaned toward her. His face was close to hers, too close. He was making her uncomfortable again, as he no doubt intended. That notion stiffened her spine. "What?" she all but snapped. "I had a major case of the hots for you when I was in high school. I still do.
~ Karen Robards
Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.
~ Kate Mosse
As a warm-up, Lambiase sets up A.J. with his cousin. The cousin has blond hair with black roots, overly plucked eyebrows, a heart-shaped face, and a high-pitched voice like Michael Jackson. She wears a low-cut top and a push-up bra, which creates a small, sad shelf for her name necklace to rest. Her name is Maria. In the middle of mozzarella sticks, they run out of conversation.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No one in this place seemed uncomfortable at the emotions of strangers. We had entered a subterranean culture of extremis, where people were dying or trying to live and the heart was laid bare.
~ Gail Caldwell
When I see those big labels, 'American,' I know someone is selling something. I get very uncomfortable with any kind of chauvinism—male, French or American."7
~ Gail Levin
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
~ Brian Eno
The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
~ Herman Melville
Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.
~ Ian Mcewan
There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.
~ Tom Hanks
My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn't expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing - which is interesting but uncomfortable.
~ Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.
~ Mel Robbins