Awkward Quotes - Page 14

• Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Men, Virtue, Conquest

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• If we go about apologizing for speaking to people of the things of God, we must not be very much surprised if they catch our timidity and they feel awkward and we feel awkward. There is a certain shyness and awkwardness about us when we go to tell men and women of the things of eternal life, which react upon them until they become nervous and awkward too.

  Mildred Cable

  Men, People, Apologizing

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• I'm a bad dater. I'm the most socially awkward person, like carrying on conversations and stuff.

  Lauren Conrad

  Carrying On, Stuff, Conversation

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• It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not.

  Carl Sagan

  Smart, Knowledge, Responsibility

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• To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

  Andre Gide

  Philosophical, Soul, Feelings

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• Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

  Thornton Wilder

  Giving, Style, Attention

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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• God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Forgiving, Earth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2397, Delphi Classics

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• The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Fashion, Law, Today

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• There is that small chance I’ll get what I want; to be someone to relate to for anyone who is as alienated, awkward, spastic and passionate as me.

  Max Bemis

  Passionate, Want, Chance

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• Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as herding cats

  John Naughton

  Character, Cat, Quirky

  John Naughton (2015). “A Brief History of the Future”, p.209, Hachette UK

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• It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled.

  Patricia Monaghan

  Baby, Eggs, Perfect

  Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit”, p.109, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Together, Way, Brilliant

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2010). “It's Not Like I Planned It This Way: Including Alice; Alice on Her Way; Alice in the Know”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

  Nicole Krauss

  Always Trying, Territory, Lost

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• And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard-one that thinks too much.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Confused, Thinking, Relaxation

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• I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.

  Robert Rankin

  Writing, Doe, Three

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• Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with...It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.

  Maureen Johnson

  Kissing, Forget Everything, Confusing

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• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  Candice Swanepoel

  Girl, School, Looks

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• I was that 'awkward-didn't-understand-his body-kind of-uncomfortable teen.'

  Lee Pace

  Body, Kind, Uncomfortable

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• Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.

  Albert Einstein

  Hair, Hands, Long

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.77, Princeton University Press

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• I'm learning to say 'y'all' and, I like grits... Strange things are happening to me.

  Mitt Romney

  Grit, Strange, Happenings

  "'Let Mitt Be Mitt': But Who Was He?". "Morning Edition" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 9, 2012.

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• I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture.

  Jason Segel

  Venture, Able, Making Money

  "Frat Pack Tribute Movie Preview: Forgetting Sarah Marshall Set Visit". www.the-frat-pack.com. April 4, 2008.

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• The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present.

  Eddy Sims

  Birthday, Price Tag, Santa

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• The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.

  Rivka Galchen

  Giving Up, Writing, Flames

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• I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

  Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

  Father, Hero, Home

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