Quotes About Discomfort

The very rich are enormously resentful of bad weather. It is the one discomfort that their money cannot do anything about.

Ughhhhhhhh!' he said. 'Arghhhhhhhh! Ouchhhhhhhh!

Adolph Knipe moved his feet on the carpet, and he watched the two small white hands of his chief, the nervous fingers playing with a paper clip, unbending it, straightening out the hairpin curves. He didn't like the man's hands. He didn't like his face either, with the tiny mouth and the narrow purple-coloured lips. It was unpleasant the way only the lower lip moved when he talked.

Raising the subject of East Tremont with Commissioner Moses, I asked him the most innocuous question I could think of: Wasn't it more difficult to build an expressway in the city rather than a parkway in the country? He waved his hand dismissively: "Oh, no, no, no," he said. "There are more people in the way—that's all. There's very little real hardship in the thing. There's a little discomfort, and even that is greatly exaggerated.

An air car was just landing in the garden by the pool and beings under it were complaining of injuries and indignities done them. Perhaps this was the trouble he could feel? Grasses were for walking on, flowers and bushes were not—this was a wrongness.

The woman looked at me as if I had proposed sodomy.

She rearranged her legs again. If she kept doing that, it was possible that I might begin to bugle like a stallion. Which would not be dignified. Beth

Scott felt uncomfortable, but managed a nod. Most of what Hess told the chief was lies. "Thank you." "I'll

His face went sullen and his breathing grew loud. He had more of the Hamm's. He had more of the Hamm's again. My neck was hurting so bad I thought it would go into spasm.

Her cheeks flamed with heat as her gaze shifted downward with a look of horror. There's something hard in your breeches, and I think it's moving!

We're so uncomfortable with the immediate conflict that we accept the certainty of bad results to avoid the possibility of uncomfortable conversation

I was like the patient who cannot explain to the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

Today Baba got a blister when he put his palm down on the hood of our rental car! Mother had to put toothpaste on it.

It was like waking up one morning and finding that a wild animal has wandered into your house. No place felt safe to me.

I think my water just broke.' I took an instinctive step back. Because, gross. 'Omigod.

The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing. It was too low for a grown man, and besides, it was so tight, one needed a shoehorn to get back out of it. In short, this room was simply not furnished in a way appropriate to intellectual effort, and I did not intend to keep it any longer.

It causeth unease. - Oh it doth, doth it?

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

There's no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.

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.

We moderns have an arsenal of tranquillisers and painkillers at our disposal, but our expectations of ease and pleasure, and our intolerance of inconvenience and discomfort, have increased to such an extent that we may well suffer from pain more than our ancestors ever did.

You can do many things with bayonets, but it is rather uncomfortable to sit on them.

You can do many things with bayonets, but it is rather uncomfortable to sit on them.' A

I'll close by referring to a comment I made at the outset of this exchange, when I expressed the hope that my answers would leave both those on the right and the left discomforted. That discomfort should be caused by an acknowledgment on everyone's part that extremism and antisemitism are found not only among people on the other side of the political spectrum. As long as we are blind to it in our midst, our fight against it will be futile.