Discomfiting Quotes

#1. As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

Virginia Postrel

#2. There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you're determined to dislike for no good reason.

Gregory David Roberts

#3. Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

Tom Stoppard

#4. It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.

Cecily White

#5. Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.

Anthony Zerbe

#6. The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

James Lovegrove

#7. The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.

Eva Hoffman

#8. Now in my middle fifties, an irrelevant codger, I find it discomfiting to see this generation dancing to the music of apocalypse and carrying their psychic burdens in front of them like infants in arms.

Julie Schumacher

#9. Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#10. A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#11. Bonhoeffer's permanent legacy as a theologian has been to show that in the modern world, as in Josiah's and Huldah's Jerusalem, fostering the discomfiting yet life-giving practice of reading the Bible against ourselves is a major public responsibility of the Christian teacher and theologian.

Ellen F. Davis

#12. Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

Benjamin Moser

#13. Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible.

Amity Gaige

#14. It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.

Brittney Ryan

#15. I got to do a whole slew of TV movies playing the bad guy, including an episode of Smallville. That would never have happened if I hadn't done the Stand.

Corin Nemec

#16. I'd like to think that throughout my career whatever my current record is has 110% of my best.

Aaron Watson

#17. This had been his world and he had been happy there. For all the inconveniences and hardships of military life, for all that he had emerged from the army minus half his leg, he did not regret a day of the time he had spent serving.

J.K. Rowling

#18. Rioting over food: how could this be? Here was all this grain, food enough to feed half the world, sitting in piles at the train station, going to waste. Something was out of balance.

Timothy Egan

#19. Between what is and what could be?

Gloria Steinem

#20. I sat on the floor behind him, putting my legs on either side of his hips so that my calves were over the edge, and I rested my cheek on his bare back. He continued to play and I recognized the tune. Wild Horses by the Rolling Stones.

D.D. Prince

#21. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

#22. If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first.

Austin Kleon

#23. I would be an actress for the rest of my life just because it's really relaxing. Writing is hard work, and stand-up is so stressful before you get on stage, but acting is a complete ensemble experience.

Kristen Schaal

#24. If a ghost were to consider climbing in the window, or seeping through the plaster, he might think twice about facing Maria.

Alice Hoffman