Quotes About Unwelcome

#1. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals.

Mark Twain

#2. A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.

Dan Miller

#4. The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

Robin Sharma

#6. Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

Frank Sinatra

#7. I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

Fran Kranz

#8. A thin yellow curtain hung in front of the corner window as boney tree limbs tapped on the glass like an unwelcome visitor. Despite the tiny buds on the trees outside, the branch at this particular window was still bare.

Abby Slovin

#9. Laughter is a whip that keeps us in line. It's horrible to be laughed at against your will. Either you suppress unwelcome laughter or you start controlling it.

Keith Johnstone

#10. Your sarcasm is unwelcome here, Horseman," the Crowfather rasped at him. "Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.

Ari Marmell

#11. Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.

Michael Brooks

#12. Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

Anthony Lewis

#13. Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

David Ogilvy

#14. Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Warren Buffett

#15. We should have springs and rivers, not mines and treasure tunnels. Gold is an unwelcome visitor. It works against the acclimation of people to the land.

Tim Westover

#16. She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#17. School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.

John Taylor Gatto

#18. Sleep is your friend. Dreams are your unwelcome guests.

Anne Rice

#19. Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome

Steven Erikson

#20. Wage war against the weaker thoughts that have crept into the palace of your mind. They will see that they are unwanted and leave like unwelcome visitors.

Robin S. Sharma

#21. While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

Tim Bishop

#22. So my days go on, and grow to weeks and months. So will they grow to years, should life so long remain an unwelcome guest within me: for what is man without hope? and is not hope nigh dead within this weary breast?

Bram Stoker

#23. None of us lasts forever, do we? If I'm honest, seeing her like that was an unwelcome reminder of my own mortality. Of what I had been. Of what we all must become.

Jojo Moyes

#24. The drowsiness returns. It is unwelcome. I recognize it as the sort of fitful twilight which has come over me of late, a twilight where waking dreams are dreamed and sleep never comes.

Walker Percy

#25. I am afraid I interrupt your solitary ramble, my dear sister,' said he, as he joined her.
'You certainly do,' she replied with a smile; 'but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome.

Jane Austen

#26. The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#27. A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#28. Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan's true legacy, as I noted in 'The Nation' back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force.

Eric Alterman

#29. He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#30. I sincerely hoped I'd beaten the bedding enough that any unwelcome guests of the microscopic variety had gotten the word their invitation was revoked. Pancho

April White

#31. Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as ... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us ... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.

Yaroslav Trofimov

#32. Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

Deepak Chopra

#33. All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

#34. I'm going to carry you now," he told her, "so we can move even faster. I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.

Suzanne Brockmann

#35. Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

Cary Grant

#36. I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

Boy George

#37. Now to die of grief
would mean, I'm afraid, to die
belatedly, while latecomers
are unwelcome, particularly in the future ...

Joseph Brodsky

#38. Everything in the room seemed turned away from me in sullen resistance, averthing itself from my unwelcome return.

John Banville

#39. Nicholas had not seen such a look of unwelcome surprise on his captain's face since the time their former cook announced he had served the crew stewed rat instead of salted beef.

Alexandra Bracken

#40. A Washington summer is a physical being: a shaggy, slobbering beast; relentless, inescapable, forever panting its heavy, humid breath into the face of each citizen and pushing its weight against the wilting populace, demanding attention-a constant, unwelcome companion.

Jennifer Bort Yacovissi

#41. War at this time and in this place is unwelcome, unwise, and simply wrong.

Martin Sheen

#42. The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Edmund Gosse

#43. I hadn't known up to that moment that I had a surname that was recognizably Jewish, or that people named Marx would be unwelcome somewhere in the United States because of it.

Elinor Lipman

#44. Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies.

Truman Capote

#45. To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented.

Tom Robbins

#46. If you corner me, you are going to hear some unwelcome truths.

Mason Cooley

#47. Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

Eli Siegel

#48. There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

Jack McDevitt

#49. I am convinced now that nothing good is accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and making yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion.

Dale Carnegie

#50. In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ...

Andre Gide

#51. I tried not to think of this as an omen, but unwelcome thoughts enter my head all the time.

Abigail Thomas

#52. The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

Agnes Repplier

#53. A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because ... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.

William J. Clinton

#54. His head jerked up. He had one of the most startling and unwelcome thoughts of the last century.
Am I a boyfriend?
He growled and jerked the door open.

Thea Harrison

#55. The searing light of morning
Asks unwelcome questions,
Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

Scott Hastie

#56. It seemed strange to Kellan that the more people were crowded together, the less they were willing to acknowledge it; their interaction became a thing of unwelcome necessity and their gaze turned ever inward.

B.R. Crichton

#57. Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life

Joyce Carol Oates

#58. This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#59. It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.

Arlen Specter

#60. The silence was like an unwelcome child, pulling at our hair, running its fingers over our lips.

Kat Zhang

#61. No ideology can protect a son from the unwelcome inheritance of his father's ambitions.

Elizabeth Strout

#62. The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

Aidan Chambers

#63. Finding Louisa in her drawing-room was like discovering a kitten in the cupboard--not necessarily unwelcome, but still startling.

Steven Harper

#64. I never see problems. I always see challenges. By definition, a problem is something unwelcome or harmful, whereas a challenge is a contest. Contests can be won; and, I love winning.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#65. I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

Sarah Kay

#66. We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

Samuel Johnson

#67. Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

Germaine Greer

#68. He had enough experience in the business of prayer to recognize an answer when it showed up, though, however unwelcome.

Diana Gabaldon

#69. My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

Yohji Yamamoto

#70. You're sending my mind to unwelcome places, Taro.
Good. It can keep mine company.

Moira J. Moore

#71. Words can be terrible when the truth is unwelcome.

Amy Harmon

#72. All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

Niels Bohr

#73. What do you want then?
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.

Leigh Bardugo

#74. Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Semir Zeki

#75. All this careful conservatism, these shackled environments that barely edged beyond the laws of physics - they only guarded against the Inner Heckler, not these unwelcome sensations intruding from outside.

Peter Watts

#76. The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

Winifred Holtby

#77. Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Christopher Hitchens

#78. I try not to remember them but very often memories force themselves on my consciousness; they are like stubborn relatives who invite themselves over even when you've made it clear that they are unwelcome.

Palash Krishna Mehrotra

#79. Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

H. P. Blavatsky

#80. Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger.

Charles Stross

#81. What if I began to believe that the critique isn't just an unwelcome part of the art-making process but might actually make the art better?

Emily P. Freeman

#82. Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

Saint Francis De Sales

#83. When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

Julia Ward Howe

#84. My mind is like a pond without ripples. Your mind is full of waves because you feel separated from, and often threatened by, an unplanned, unwelcome occurrence. Your mind is like a pond into which someone has just dropped a boulder!

Dan Millman

#85. The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar ... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

Stephen King

#86. He'd forgotten how irritating company could be. Uninvited, unwelcome, persistent reminder of his own weaknesses. And

Steven Erikson

#87. It's shocking to note how close we play to unwelcome realizations, and yet how our ongoing ignorance makes so much of life possible.

Richard Ford

#88. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. At the same time, that does not mean we just flat out open our borders. We can't do that.

Nikki Haley

#89. If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

Kathleen Norris

#90. I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

Gail Carson Levine

#91. Wisdom did not belong to mortals, and those whom others called wise were only those who, through grim experience, had touched the very edges of unwelcome truths. For the wise, even joy was tinged with sorrow.

Steven Erikson

#92. Even the physical therapist, who until that day has been seen as an unwelcome tormentor, is pulled into the picture.

Adele Levine

#93. It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

Mark Twain

#94. Nobody ... likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.

Rowan Williams

#95. That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

Plautus

#96. Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)

Sylvia Plath

#97. It was becoming a habit that wasn't totally unwelcome.

Hadena James

#98. If we can accept whatever hand we've been dealt - no matter how unwelcome - the way to proceed eventually becomes clear.

Phil Jackson

#99. Albus Dumbledore didn't seem to realize that he had just arrived in a street where everything from his name to his boots was unwelcome.

J.K. Rowling

#100. With the company of just myself, my thoughts presented themselves like unwelcome houseguests.

Denise Grover Swank