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Quotes About Upset

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.
~ Roman Polanski
As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
~ Albert Ellis
I knew how she felt, all jittered up inside and no place to put the aggravation.
~ Susan Crandall
As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you.
~ Susan Forward
It was true that the ghastly sounds I had heard through the fog had greatly upset me but far worse was what emanated from and surrounded these things and arose to unsteady me, an atmosphere, a force - I do not exactly know what to call it - of evil and uncleanness, of terror and suffering, of malevolence and bitter anger
~ Susan Hill
I was suddenly afraid that if I seemed too upset or afraid, too crazy, he would stop.
~ Susanna Moore
Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.
~ Suzanne Collins
At least, you two have decent manners," says Effie as we're finishing the main course. "The pair last year ate everything with their hands like a couple of savages. It completely upset my digestion." ... My mother taught Prim and me to eat properly, so yes, I can handle a fork and knife. But I hate Effie Trinket's comment so much I make a point of eating the rest of my meal with my fingers. Then I wipe my hands on the tablecloth. This makes her purse her lips tightly together.
~ Suzanne Collins
I get to the bottom of why I'm so upset. When I do, it's almost too Mortifying to admit. All this months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.
~ Suzanne Collins
He slumps back in his chair, distraught.
~ Suzanne Collins
I was going to ask your thoughts on the war, but if you're too upset . .
~ Suzanne Collins
It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.
~ Neal Shusterman
It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
~ Charles Bukowski
A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.
~ Charles Bukowski
downers some people grind away making their unhappiness the ultimate factor of their existence until finally they are just automatically unhappy, their suspicious upset snarling selves grinding on and at and for and through their only relief being to meet another unhappy person or to create one.
~ Charles Bukowski
All right." Panin sips at his wine. "Excuse me, but—there is a personal connection?" "What?" "You appear unduly upset ..." "Yes." She looks at her hands. "The missing officer is my husband." Panin puts his glass down and leans back, very slowly, with the extreme self-control of a man who has just realized he is sharing a table with a large, ticking bomb. "Is there anything I can do to help?" "Yes.
~ Charles Stross
Yes, well, if it's any consolation that goes for me, too, and for Angleton believe it or not, but 'upset' and fifty pence will buy you a cup of coffee and what we really need is to finger the means, motive, and murderer of Daisy the Cow in time to close the stable door.
~ Charles Stross
On the wide quay, with the massive brick warehouses rising up darkly on his right and the two imposing steamships towering above him on his left, Johnny appeared quite solitary and vulnerable. "Holmes, did young Mr. Rockefeller seem upset to you?" "Youth can be a difficult advantage to bear," said Holmes.
~ Charles Veley
Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be
~ Tim Burton
Emotionally, it's better to be homicidal than suicidal. When you're upset with a guy, at least know which way to point the gun.
~ Kim Gruenenfelder
Cornered, she seemed to possess no mechanism for behaving well. By the same token, when not trapped or obliged to confront people or situations that upset her, she had a particular ability to think about them with apparently genuine pleasure. Martha
~ Caroline Moorehead
The events were always hidden behind a veil drawn by an unknown power, and seemed to come from the realm of destiny. It was this that upset the everyday equilibrium, logic and the order of things.
~ Ismail Kadare
When you spend more time being angry, hurt, and upset about what happened, you pretty much barricade the door of what is possible.
~ Iyanla Vanzant