Disagreeable Quotes - Page 7

• Though we disagree, we should not be disagreeable.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Should, Disagree

  "Speeches in Spanish, Cantonese make history at Mormon conference: 'It was awesome'", www.foxnews.com. October 05, 2014.

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• Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Believe, Puritan

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.95, BookBaby

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• Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Deceit, Culture, Conflict

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• We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Criticism, Would Be, Criticize

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• I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Vocabulary, Self

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The condition that is most disagreeable in your life becomes the most useful one. You know, I feel the same way about the U.S. Army. It was absolutely the worst experience of my life, and it was probably the single most valuable experience.

  Norman Mailer

  Army, Way, Worst

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.

  Barack Obama

  Matter, Citizenship, Civility

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Feet, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.318

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• Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm disagreeable.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Mean, Disagree

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• Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Arbitration

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.394, Wildside Press LLC

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• Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

  Jane Austen

  Death, Rude, Lovely

  1816 Emma, ch.45. ee Goldsmith 361:47.

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• There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

  Samuel Richardson

  Taken, Light, Optimism

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.1863, Simon and Schuster

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• ... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Mother, Mind, Majority

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of failure. Sometimes they act bold, to counteract their imperious yearnings to remain children. They are impulsive, impetuous, moody, disagreeable, overdemanding, underappreciative. If you don't understand them, remember, they don't understand themselves most of the time.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Feelings, May

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• Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

  Morgan Freeman

  Seven, Significant, Find Me

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• Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Money, Community, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

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• I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

  Henry Ossawa Tanner

  Pain, Heart, Mind

  Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”

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• Some children have the most disagreeable way of getting grown-up

  Lewis Carroll

  Children, Growing Up, Way

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• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

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• To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

  Hannah More

  Royalty, Virtue, Manners

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• Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

  David Hume

  Passion, Humility, Pride

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.522, Delphi Classics

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• I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

  Bette Davis

  Larger Than Life, Has Beens, Uncompromising

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• It is to me a most affecting thing to hear myself prayed for, in particular as I do every day in the week, and disposes me to bear with more composure, some disagreeable circumstances that attend my situation.

  Abigail Adams

  Bears, Week, Circumstances

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• Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

  Rebecca West

  Pain, Night, Mad

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.818, Open Road Media

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• There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Wise, Stupid

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.119, Harper Collins

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