Discomforting Quotes

#1. A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

Howard Whitley Eves

#2. The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt something discomforting and comforting all at once. I didn't want to be here, in this city, anymore.

Tablo

#4. The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

Paul Muldoon

#5. The thought of Peter and John Ambrose McClaren in the same space together again is discomforting. Where would I even look?

Jenny Han

#6. Discomforting, like finding a three-week-old sandwich behind your bed, when you swore you'd finished the darn thing.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Sinclair Lewis

#8. Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

Carol J. Adams

#9. Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

John C. Maxwell

#10. The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

C.S. Lewis

#11. The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

Viktor E. Frankl

#12. Shay is always insecure and that was a big turn off for me.

Jessica M

#13. I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#14. Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.

Maude Royden

#15. The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Janette Turner Hospital

#16. Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

Wendell Phillips

#17. Say what you will, but you're never prepared for the surprise attack.

Sarah Dessen

#18. Liquore just don't mix with love.

Loretta Lynn

#19. I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

Joe Hill

#20. Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Charles Bukowski

#21. The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.

David A. Siegel