Upset Quotes - Page 33

• I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

  Noah Baumbach

  Teenager, Divorce, Agreement

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• One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

  Francois Rabelais

  Good Luck, Hazards, Ends

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• I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Thinking, Evil

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm no longer curious about things that will upset me.

  Louise Hay

  Curious

  Louise L. Hay, Cheryl Richardson (2011). “You Can Create an Exceptional Life: Candid Conversations with Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson”, p.136, Hay House, Inc

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• There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, People, Laughing

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• As children everyone thinks their family is weird and they're upset by the weirdness of their own family.

  Stephen Fry

  Children, Thinking, Weirdness

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Pain, Joy, Lessons

  "Valentine's Day - Ashton Kutcher and Topher Grace interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind. Don't let anyone make you so upset that you become someone you don't even recognise.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Heart, Mean

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• Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

  Mason Cooley

  Philosophical, Doe, Modern

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• I'm less upset with politicians than the media. I feel like politicians, there is a certain, inherent - you know, the way I always explain it is, when you go to the zoo and a monkey throws its feces, it's a monkey. But, when the zookeeper is standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey... Somebody's got to be the zookeeper.

  Jon Stewart

  Zoos, Media, Monkeys

  "Jon Stewart: The Most Trusted Name In Fake News". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 4, 2010.

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• On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.

  Natasha Richardson

  Hurt, Pain, Father

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• It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

  Christina Stead

  Shopping, Towns, Would Be

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.532, The Miegunyah Press

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• Death must simply become the discreet but dignified exit of a peaceful person from a helpful society that is not torn, not even overly upset by the idea of a biological transition without significance, without pain or suffering, and ultimately without fear.

  Philippe Aries

  Death, Pain, Ideas

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• People are afraid that they're going to upset somebody on top, and so there's a real sense of, I've got to be quiet, I don't want to be fired.

  Nick Offerman

  Real, People, Want

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

  Denis Leary

  Real, Writing, Chance

  "Denis Leary Explains What's Funny About EMTs". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Avoid People and Situations That Upset You. Those things, people, situations, and experiences you dont like--avoid them. Stay away. Walk away. Do something else. Some might call this cowardly. I call it smart. The world is brimming with things, people, and experiences. We will never experience all of them if we live to be 10,000. So why not associate with the ones that naturally please you?

  Peter McWilliams

  Smart, People, Why Not

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• God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

  Oswald Chambers

  Worry, Way, Possibility

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.383, Discovery House

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• I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Wine, Glasses, Two

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• Osama bin Laden put out a new video. The timing of this video has some people upset, three days before we vote. It looks like he's trying to influence the election. And I'll tell you, it's not going to work. Americans know Osama bin Laden does not pick our president. The Supreme Court does.

  Bill Maher

  People, Trying, President

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• Have you seen the cover of Newsweek? They have Martha Stewart on the cover, but it's not actually Martha. It's a doctored photo. They put Martha's head on a slimmer woman's body. And Martha was very upset about this. She said, 'Hey, if I wanted my face on another woman's body, I'd stay in prison.'

  Jay Leno

  Hey, Body, Faces

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• Oliver North says he is very upset that John Walker could come back to this country and cash in on his celebrity status. He hates to see someone who did something wrong get rewarded by writing a book or getting a TV show out of it.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Hate, Book

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• The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

  Mason Cooley

  Perfect, Balance, Achieve

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• Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!

  Mason Cooley

  Cheer, Three, Variation

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• Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  People, Drunk, Emotion

  Mary Hunter Austin, Maxwell Aley (1925). “Everyman's genius”

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• Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

  Norm MacDonald

  Love, Men, Wind

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