People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
John Dewey
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
[PNC was] going to try to do something in Washington, but everybody said it would be hot and unpleasant there this time of year, and probably nobody on the Corcoran mailing list would be in town.
Thomas Sokolowski
'Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
Self-discipline implies some unpleasant things to me, including staying away from chocolate and keeping my hands out of women's pants.
Oleg Kiselev
You'd be picking a … fight, though. Iran is a sophisticated country, with a very sophisticated leadership. It has a range of retaliatory options that are extremely unpleasant.
Cliff Kupchan
We have the unpleasant possibility that the cyclone could linger near the southeast United States through five days.
Richard Pasch
If you don't draw and think well, your art career will be short and unpleasant. The basics serve the digital end and give the kids a vastly superior portfolio when they leave here.
Charles Pyle
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis Kronenberger
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
Eric Hoffer
A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds, in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.
Caryl P. Haskins
This sounds like propaganda by the regime. The government usually makes promises about new laws, but then ? at the very last moment ? comes up with unpleasant surprises.
Nidal Mansour
He told us some unpleasant stories. His treatment wasn't very pleasant in the early stages.
Terry Hicks
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.
Jane Austen
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
Baltasar Gracian
Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.
Margaret Atwood
If we don't control access, we could have an unpleasant situation in the waiting area. Everybody would be converging down there. We understand the discomfort of waiting in the cold.
Brian Dolan
Overshadowing all has been the president's reckless, tawdry behavior, coupled with misleading statements that have undermined the dignity of the presidency, and brought about a divisive and unpleasant chapter in our history.
John Chafee
If you go there, it's pretty empty. It's unpleasant to go to frankly because it's so large.
Anna Kalifa
It may be unpleasant, but you can give a very hard signal which isn't going to hurt people as such but is going to at least give a chance of registering in the minds of the Iranian people that what their president is doing is unacceptable to the international community.
Michael Ancram
It is an unpleasant episode, but the IPO preparation process is not going to stop because of it.
Valery Nesterov
If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future.
Brendan Gill
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
As I sit here right now, I can't say how many games we'll win or what position we'll end up in. [Last season] was a very unpleasant taste in my mouth and the players' mouths. They're committed to getting better, but we'll see. We just want to be better than we were last year.
Isiah Thomas
I have known her pass the whole evening without mentioning a single book, or in fact anything unpleasant, at all.
Henry Reed
Local people, we tend to avoid anything unpleasant.
Craig Inouye
What I'm not interested in is having directors here who are anti-story tellers, and that's how I would group a lot of directors who subject audiences in Europe to unpleasant artistic experiences.
Peter Gelb
I'll say right now, I'll tell anybody that the smell of death is one of the most unpleasant odors that a human should ever have to breathe in.
Allen Miller
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
Peter McArthur
We do benefits for needy children that have unpleasant circumstances, and that's why we built this track and why we hold all these events.
Russell Stone
No matter how much you improve something that is basically an unpleasant experience, it's an unpleasant experience.
Joe Queenan
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.
Sarah Bernhardt
The songs are really personal. They're really honest, even if they're sometimes unpleasant. The lyrics evoke so many emotions. Our analogies are visual and the metaphors are direct. Corin and Carrie are singing about things they care about. I feel it.
Janet Weiss
Energy prices will have to fall substantially and growth will have to improve to erase the feeling that the growth/inflation mix will be unpleasant.
Richard Berner
Slow, very slow, with lots and lots of digging in pretty unpleasant conditions.
Kevin O'brien
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Most consumers are not even aware that natural cork causes cork taint. It's associated with a certain chemical that's naturally occurring. In some cases, it's extremely noticeable, and the wine can be extremely unpleasant. In other cases, it can result in the wine not being as fresh or fruity.
Malcolm Thompson
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Richard Bach
So you know mixed feelings is kind of an unpleasant experience to come upon something like that, but you also know that it brings closure to somebody who may be grieving for a lost one.
Heinz Wahl
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
That's unsustainable. There is an unpleasant adjustment in our future. We will have to adjust our lifestyles to our means. There will be a sharp recession if not a depression.
Clyde Prestowitz
I'm glad nobody got hurt, and it was just a little unpleasant. In a two-hour course, we only have so many days.
Gregory Maggs
I had one or two unpleasant occurrences. I don't need to get any more graphic than that.
Scot Roskelley
It's truly unpleasant to see a synagogue burned down, but this destruction was foretold. None of the Cabinet ministers had the illusion that the Palestinian Authority would want, and especially would be able, to save the synagogues from the mob.
Yossi Sarid
You should not go. Things will be very unpleasant for you if you go.
Rick Rashid
He conducted the attack quite well and I had an unpleasant position despite the extra pawn. Alexander just played better than me today.
Viswanathan Anand
I would not be surprised to see continued price increases at least in the short term. September could be an unpleasant month when it comes to fuel prices.
Sean Comey
September will probably be an extremely unpleasant month at the pump. This goes to show that even if you're far away from where the hurricane hit, there's a ripple effect.
Sean Comey
They have so many weapons at each position. We knew (Aldridge and Tucker) were unpleasant with their performance the last game. They had something to prove. They came out and played their tails off.
Curtis Jerrells
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
Marcel Proust
This long and unpleasant chapter in the university history has ended once and for all. We have learned some hard lessons from this experience, but we emerged from it with a stronger program and a renewed commitment to the highest standards of integrity.
Bill Martin
I just think hearing my voice would be unpleasant, ... When you write a book, there's the book and that's it. You don't need pages of commentary or the 300 pages you deleted. I think ultimately the movie has to speak for itself.
Todd Solondz
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.
Virginia Woolf
On the one hand, these are important, critical issues for the future of democracy in the world, and on the other, they're thorny and unpleasant to talk about. It's a massive brewing dispute.
John Palfrey
It looks like they died for $40. It's unpleasant, but sometimes you do crazy things.
Guy Lajeunesse
We have frequently gone into denial when faced with unpleasant, unpalatable facts and now we are hearing from governments in Africa that they are not going into denial but that they are facing up to a horrendous situation forthwith.
Bishop Desmond Tutu
There is no truth whatever in these allegations. Ashley Cole will not tolerate this kind of cowardly journalism or let it go unchallenged. It is disgraceful that he should be faced with this kind of unpleasant insinuation and innuendo.
Graham Shear
I lived in an apartment in New York City for over 17 years with a bathroom that you couldn't turn around in without sitting on the radiator. Steam radiators get quite hot and unpleasant if you come in contact with them.
Petra Perry
The bottom line is they [DYFS] don't like what the reports say, but our duty is to reveal this information no matter how unpleasant it is.
Eric Thompson
It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.
Eric Stoltz
It is the unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
Edward Heath
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