If You Are Upset Quotes

#1. The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.
No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

Gabrielle Zevin

#2. If you are upset with another's words towards you; be cautious of your reactions, for you are only meant to be a sounding-board for his soul

Jeremy Aldana

#3. If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

William James

#4. I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.

Peter Greenaway

#5. I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

Wendy Cope

#6. If the entire cheerleading squad turns into mice, Robin, I will be very upset with you. Mortal adolescents are blind and cruel. You know that. You mustn't take revenge, no matter how you feel about the girl. Especially now. There are more worrisome things on the move.
-Ms Stacy

Julie Kagawa

#7. I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

Stephen Chbosky

#8. Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.
[Blog post of July 26, 2011]

Jim C. Hines

#9. If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#10. Approval isn't necessary. It's nice when you get it, but it's not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if I'd have listened to approval, I'd never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if there's validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.

Jared Leto

#11. If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.

Frederick Lenz

#12. If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Gore Vidal

#13. If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way.

Erica Durance

#14. you can decide to get eggs from the refrigerator without craving them - and without getting upset if there are none left.

Rick Hanson

#15. With my spyglass I can observe a woman who is reading on a terrace in the valley," I told her. "I wonder if the books she reads are calming or upsetting."
"How does the woman seem to you? Calm or upset?"
"Calm."
"Then she reads upsetting books.

Italo Calvino

#16. Remember that you are not obliged to meet anyone where they are emotionally, especially if where they are is toxic or unhinged. The more visibly upset you get, the more you perpetuate the negativity; the more rattled and distracted you are, the more you give the bullies what they want. Unless

Jennifer Romolini

#17. People don't really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots.
They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don't live up to their snap judgments.

Lilith Saintcrow

#18. I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#19. Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

George Hamilton

#20. Some people are upset to see you doing ordinary things. Those people, if they were a celebrity, they would have an entourage.

Joni Mitchell

#21. If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

Victoria Osteen

#22. First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

Jenji Kohan

#23. Grandmothers died. It was to be expected. You weren't even allowed to be that upset about it. Please don't let Frannie have died. Please don't let anyone have died. Nobody else in our family will

Liane Moriarty

#24. People are going to be upset in life no matter what we do, Bexley. Might as well go big or go home. (Jude)

Frankie Love

#25. If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push.

Mark W. Boyer

#26. It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.

Eric Davis

#27. Everything is your fault. You made me fall in love with you, and now I'm so upset I can't think or sleep or eat.

Julie Garwood