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Quotes About Discomfort

The dress bunched up like loose skin round her neck. It wouldn't behave, wouldn't act as if it was really hers. Wearing it was like being in a three legged race with someone you didn't like.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Regnet piskade honom i nacken, rann in under rocken och blöte ner hans skjorta som klistrade sig mot ryggen. Till och med uniformen hade förlorat sin värdighet.
~ Marc Levy
Shrake asked. "I'm sweating like a blind lesbian in a sushi bar.
~ John Sandford
sweating like a blind lesbian in a sushi bar.
~ John Sandford
Kidd could feel an incipient hernia when he even thought about that night. . . .
~ John Sandford
HADEN WAS WEARING SWEATPANTS and a T-shirt, with flip-flops, his hair wet from a shower, and Virgil said, "I don't want to hear about it. I'm so horny the light socket ain't safe.
~ John Sandford
She sounded like a blackboard being run through a table saw.
~ John Sandford
I had, bluntly, the worst fucking headache I had ever had in my life. I'm trying to think of the best way to describe it. Try this. Imagine a migraine, on top of a hangover, while sitting in a kindergarten of thirty screaming children, who are all taking turns stabbing you in the eye with an ice pick.
~ John Scalzi
It's war, you jackasses," Keyes snapped. "I'm sorry it's not terribly convenient or comfortable for you.
~ John Scalzi
Imagine a migraine, on top of a hangover, while sitting in a kindergarten of thirty screaming children, who are all taking turns stabbing you in the eye with an ice pick.
~ John Scalzi
I had, bluntly, the worst fucking headache I had ever had in my life. I'm trying to think of the best way to describe it. Try this. Imagine a migraine, on top of a hangover, while sitting in a kindergarten of thirty screaming children, who are all taking turns stabbing you in the eye with an ice pick. Times six. That was the good part of my headache.
~ John Scalzi
But for the last couple of days Marce had been fighting a cold, which made his snoring both louder and more random. When it woke Cardenia up, Marce sounded like he was two cavemen having a very urgent conversation with each other about discovering fire, or hunting a feral hog, or something else along that line.
~ John Scalzi
I could be happy never talking about tiny skin mites ever again," I said. "They come out when you sleep, you know." "I do now, thanks for that.
~ John Scalzi
How do you feel?" "I have a headache," Lee said. "My muscles are sore. I am dying of thirst. I have to pee. I am restrained. I'm blind. How are you?" "Better than you, I will admit
~ John Scalzi
The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.
~ John Steinbeck
I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.
~ John Steinbeck
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~ John Steinbeck
We were in a cell together in a Colonial prison, along with hundreds of other people from 2010. It wasn't very comfortable. No beds. No chairs. You just had to sit on the floor in your own filth. And my filth, I noticed, was stupendous.
~ John Swartzwelder
Courage is making an unpopular decision and suffering through temporary discomfort because you know it will have the best long-term results.
~ Andrena Sawyer
I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.
~ Lisa Bonet
The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
~ Pema Chodron
I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.
~ Robert D. Arnott
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
~ Unknown