#unpleasant

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention. ↗

— Pat Brown

#community #killer #lot #out #serial

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#ask #effectively #instinct #left #means

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#estate #knew #media #murdoch #people

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#fire #hammer #happens #i #me

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#change #takes #talking #then #truths

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#agreeable #appreciated #cold #continuity #continuous

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#mind #more #nothing #person #than

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past. ↗

— Heinz Fischer

#critically #even #examined #learned #lessons