Quotes About Uncomfortable Conversations

#1. We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

Margaret Of Valois

#2. Difficult conversations are always uncomfortable. But with the right person, you can have those conversations.

Gina LaManna

#3. I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.

Larry Wall

#4. Mom once told me Aly had me wrapped around her little finger. She'd been wrong. Aly had held me in the palm of her hand.

A.L. Jackson

#5. The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice.

Fay Weldon

#6. The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.

Michael K. Simpson

#7. You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

R.L. Stine

#8. It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.

George Herbert

#9. In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly real while i was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left

John Knowles

#10. There was a cold wind out on the street. It picked up the dust, whirled it about and suddenly scattered it, flinging it down like black chaff. There was an implacable severity in the frost, in the branches that tapped together like bones, in the icy blue of the tram-lines.

Vasily Grossman

#11. I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets.

Lauren DeStefano

#12. What has this book got to do with Palaeoanthropology? The short answer is 'not one tiny bit'. But it has everything to do with stress, communication and change, especially for the modern Caveman.

Carl Rosier-Jones

#13. It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race ... Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

Mellody Hobson

#14. When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.

Ben Aaronovitch

#15. Difficult times are the greatest opportunities in disguise. When we face difficult times we have to put in determined work to get ourselves into joy. Difficult times are your greatest opportunity to practice yourself into joy!

Rhonda Byrne

#16. I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger chance than I would have if I stayed in the car and burned to death. Hell's bells, what I wouldn't give to have my shield bracelet. Or my old staff. I didn't even have an umbrella.

Jim Butcher

#17. Okay, there were a lot of uncomfortable conversations a person had to have in their life. When they broke up with someone, for one. When they fucked up and had to admit they were wrong, for another. But talking to a dude who had his balls cut off about his balls being cut off beat them all.

Kristen Ashley

#18. 'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Clint Eastwood

#19. A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Timothy Ferriss

#20. I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

John Gutfreund