Upset Quotes - Page 27

• We don't want to give the controls to someone else; we want those reins ourselves. We want to get our way. And we get upset when things don't work out. . . . When we try to control someone else or events beyond the scope of our power, we lose. When we learn to discern the difference between what we can change and what we can't, we usually have an easier time expressing our power in our lives. Because we're not wasting all our energy using our power to change things we can't, we have a lot of energy left over to live our lives.

  Melody Beattie

  Control Someone, Differences, Giving

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• You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Book, Thinking, Views

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1972). “The First Circle”

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny.

  Mick Rock

  Art, Destiny, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Mick Rock from Mar 20, 2015

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• When they tested Fatal Attraction, the audiences were so upset by her behavior, they literally demanded her blood.

  Glenn Close

  Blood, Behavior, Fatal Attraction

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• To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to be able to contradict you.

  Timothy Keller

  Teaching, Thinking, Views

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• But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

  Georges Cuvier

  Sea, Earth, Layers

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• Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.

  Antonio Porchia

  Strong, Perspective, Calm

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

  Channing Tatum

  Political, Soldier, Feels

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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• ... I never was one to get upset about a few scratches on a motor vehicle, it is meant to be used, not saved.

  Garrison Keillor

  Motor Vehicles, Scratches, Use

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• I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worst Enemy, Causes, Enemy

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• Railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Bazaars, Levels

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses. . . If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love Is, Trying, Weakness

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• ... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone through twenty drafts, the characters may have developed lives of their own, completely separate from the people you based them on in the beginning. And even if someone, at some time, gets upset with your words - so what? Live your life, sing your song. Anyone who loves you will want you to have that.

  Walter Mosley

  Song, Book, Love You

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• I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

  Jenny Eclair

  Jobs, Hate, People

  "A funny five minutes with Jenny Eclair". Interview with Mirror.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

  Louise Erdrich

  Women, Views, Hands

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• Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Class, Kind, Wonder

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• Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

  George Hamilton

  Honesty, Needs, Want

  "George Hamilton lends advice on women" by Oli Simpson, www.digitalspy.com. November 28, 2009.

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• The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

  Nicholson Baker

  People, Want, Novel

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• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  Wendy Cope

  Writing, Two, Students

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• I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?

  Wendy Cope

  Thinking, Long, People

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• You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

  Robert Cormier

  Boys, Years, Adults

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.

  Kristin Davis

  Thinking, People, Feminist

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

  Joshua Bell

  Halls, Music Hall, Ifs

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• I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

  Gerard Butler

  Looks, Stories, Amazed

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