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Quotes About Upsetting

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.
~ Grant Morrison
The reasons: • They think it's funny. • They take perverse satisfaction out of upsetting adults. • Sometimes they get what they want when they misbehave. • Rebelling against authority gives them a sense of power. • They often get a lot of attention when they misbehave. • They discover that they can control certain people and situations by misbehaving.
~ John Rosemond
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.
~ Barbara Pym
Working at Palace was one of the happiest episodes of my football career, even though the ending was one of the most upsetting and traumatic.
~ Neil Warnock
CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.
~ Hunter Tylo
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
~ Geoff Mulgan
The lies about me kissing '24' are so upsetting because this is something that has really been taking a toll on me, my fiance and my relationship.
~ Angelina Pivarnick
We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.
~ Derek Landy
I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.
~ Lorene Scafaria
Cognitive behavioral therapists treat trauma patients by exposing them to the things they find upsetting (at first in small ways, such as imagining them or looking at pictures), activating their fear, and helping them habituate (grow accustomed) to the stimuli.
~ Jonathan Haidt
You always regret upsetting people needlessly.
~ Mary Beard
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.
~ Bradley Wiggins
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
~ Miroslav Vitous
It may be upsetting when someone says mean things on Twitter, but it is not the same as the slave trade or the Holocaust.
~ Steven Pinker
It is our responsibility to see what is before our eyes, courageously, and to learn from it, even if it seems horrible—even if the horror of seeing it damages our consciousness, and half-blinds us. The act of seeing is particularly important when it challenges what we know and rely on, upsetting and destabilizing us.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Why were you following me? Or were you after me? No, you weren't after me. It was just that someone, and the someone had to be you, was upsetting the balance of the emptiness of my nights, in which nothing could touch me - not even memories, not even desire - in which there was no other presence to threaten my vulnerability.
~ José Donoso
Let's go," he meowed. "I'll skin the little wretch when we find him, upsetting the camp like this.
~ Erin Hunter
Not having a roof over your head at night must be frightening, cold, lonely and depressing. To be seriously ill as well must be beyond upsetting.
~ Ed Davey
I knew how to upset the people, and I did it in such a way that it was believable. That's how I made a living at it for 20 years. I don't regret a thing I done or said in wrestling. Nothing.
~ Paul Orndorff
She had managed to get to the truth of the matter in every case that had been entrusted to her. But truth had a vicious way of upsetting everything else on its way to the surface. And he was hard-pressed to say, as someone whose existence had been repeatedly convulsed by recent overdoses of truth, whether there had been anything satisfactory to the aftermaths.
~ Sherry Thomas
And the Punk God of the Straight Razor is currently occupied doing something very unpleasant on the Street of the Gods. It must be something especially upsetting, because some of the gods have come running out crying.
~ Simon R. Green
I found that air of menace more inspiring than upsetting
~ Siri Hustvedt
It was a terrible horrible no good very bad day
~ Judith Viorst