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Quotes About Upset

You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.
~ Joseph Murphy
We all make mistakes. We're human. Hopefully, everyone -- like I am -- will have that attitude. I'm not upset.
~ Mindy McCready
And Nick was sure Christianna's family was upset
~ Danielle Steel
Yeah. Maybe," Lily said, but she was obviously upset about it. She felt forgotten by them all.
~ Danielle Steel
That I don't feel upset by us really being over almost trivializes how special and intense our relationship once was.
~ Daria Snadowsky
Gilbert said: "I read somewhere that when habitual criminals are accused of things they didn't do—even little things—they're much more upset by it than other people would be. Do you think that's so, Mr. Charles?" "It's likely.
~ Dashiell Hammett
People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep
~ David D. Burns
Your moody thoughts are likely to be entirely different from those you have when you are not upset.
~ David D. Burns
He got up and stalked out of the house, slamming the screen door. My mother explained. He has a gentle heart, she said. It is simply that he is homesick and such a large man.
~ William Saroyan
They had begun just lately—rumors about the Loftises, rumors about "another woman," whisperings which disturbed him not so much because they concerned the Loftises—whom he didn't know too well, in any case—but because they upset his notions about the prevalence of human decency.
~ William Styron
And why is it when attacked I rarely spoke out or seemed overly upset? Well, given the malignant chaos of a purposeless universe, what's one little false allegation in the scheme of things? Second, being a misanthropist has its saving grace—people can never disappoint you.
~ Woody Allen
But it cut him, all the same, to see one of his own so upset by the sight of what other children craved and he could not help but wonder if she'd be brave enough or able for what the world had in store.
~ Unknown
Moaning elicits laughter, sighing upsets. Perhaps each sigh is drawn into existence to pull in, pull under, who knows; truth be told, you could no more control those sighs than that which brings the sighs about.
~ Claudia Rankine
goddam upset me." She
~ Clifford Irving
distraught. It seems he claims
~ Hilary Mantel
Cavendish jolts up, riding knee-to-knee. 'His reliquary!' George is upset, astonished. 'To part with it like this! It is a piece of the true Cross!' 'We'll get him another. I know a man in Pisa makes them ten for five florins and a round dozen for cash up front. And you get a certificate with St Peter's thumbprint, to say they're genuine.
~ Hilary Mantel
You keep talking, but you're not making any sense. Of course you upset someone in the government. You pretended to be the governor of New Jersey and confessed to a bunch of crimes." I can't help the small smile that's playing at the corners of my mouth. "So," I say, "how did it go over?
~ Holly Black
Do you have an opinion on anything?" "Not really." It was true, in a way. Opinions were for other people. It was fascinating how upset they got about them.
~ Liane Moriarty
Opinions were for other people. It was fascinating how upset they got about them.
~ Liane Moriarty
upset?" "Of course. Once a boy told Lyn she had two mozzie bites instead of tits and she cried for a whole week." "Really? Did she?" Kara sat up, invigorated. "I can't imagine her, young, and getting all upset.
~ Liane Moriarty
He wasn't mad, he was sad.
~ Lionel Shriver
'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.
~ Josh Duhamel
If I'm really angry or upset, you have the ability to use music to vent, like therapy in a way.
~ Edith Bowman
When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.
~ Patti Smith