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Quotes About Discomfort

You will hurt your foot.
~ Joseph Heller
I'd rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eyes," Havermeyer retorted.
~ Joseph Heller
Her favorite foods made her gag, like old friends she hadn't seen in years turning up looking all wrong.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Burnaby wasn't a Christian but he behaved like a Christian is supposed to behave which made Colborne, a Christian, uncomfortable.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I think I broke a rib
~ Joyce Milton
I just don't know what's going on here, and when I'm uncomfortable, I get a bit...edgy.
~ Judi Hendricks
I feel like hell...I ache all over, but mostly inside.
~ Judith McNaught
The truth was that the new woman's movement made her uncomfortable. ... she was upset by the stridency of much of it. The demands. It seemed that men must surely dislike women who were so demanding.
~ Judith Rossner
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
~ Walker Percy
The shock of such a partner destabilizes us too much. The risk too great, the discomfort so demanding. We much prefer to settle for a less demanding, less overwhelming meeting. Yet we are haunted by the awareness that only this overwhelming meeting gives life.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Un amor independiente siempre incomoda. Un amor sin apegos es irreverente, fantástico, insólito, locuaz, trascendente, atrevido y envidiable.
~ Walter Riso
el comportamiento asertivo conlleva un costo social: la gente sincera incomoda
~ Walter Riso
embarrassment as quickly
~ Ward Larsen
a splinter in the butt as you slide down the banister
~ Warren Olson
The Universe was not created to make humans comfortable.
~ Webster Kitchell
It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease.
~ Wendy Law-Yone
Randall balanced a large brown box under one arm while he chomped on a green apple held in his free hand. He grimaced with every bite. He'd
~ Wendy Mass
The discomfort she felt with Avery Lawford was nothing compared to what she felt when their third partner arrived a few moments later in a classic green Jaguar convertible, from which she emerged like a celebrity being handed onto the red carpet.
~ Wendy Wax
I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
~ Whoopie Goldberg
when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Intentionally rude and vulgar, he took pleasure in the discomfort of others.
~ Daniel Silva
Thoughts, however upsetting, foul, disgusting, annoying, and so on, are just never dangerous. It's discomfort, not danger.
~ David A. Carbonell
The problem you face is not the problem described in the catastrophe clause of your worry. The problem you face is the discomfort you experience in response to the worrisome thought, and your natural inclination to take that thought seriously and resist it. When you resist the thought with your usual selection of anti-worry responses, this is when you once again experience the difficulty of The harder I try, the worse it gets.
~ David A. Carbonell