#unpleasant

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

— Walter Bagehot

#mind #more #nothing #person #than

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried. ↗

— Charles Hamilton Houston

#problem #race #race problem #rather #refuses

With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

#end #god #guidance #help #history

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#dealing #double #eccentric #i #in the past

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable. ↗

— Carre Otis

#controversial #exposing #feel #judgment #making

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#certainly #challenges #different #food #shortage

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. ↗

— Robert Quine

#early #experience #i #into #lessons

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. ↗

— Laura Riding

#constant #create #end #even #give

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#human-nature #psychology #unpleasant-ideas #nature

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please. ↗

— Samuel Barber

#composer #football #forget #go #i