Uncomfortable Truths Quotes

#1. The lesson is that the medium is not the message, that we must not ignore uncomfortable truths just because they come through an unimpressive messenger.

Timothy J. Keller

#2. It's not like me to brood on the past. I'm not comfortable with uncomfortable truths. I prefer to round off the edges and corners until I have something worth keeping.

Mark Lawrence

#3. He had always assumed gossip to be the malicious whispering of uncomfortable truths not the fabrication of absurdities. How was one to protect oneself against people making up things Was a life of careful impeccable behavior not enough in a world where inventions were passed around as fact

Helen Simonson

#4. Loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

Barack Obama

#5. Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

Julian Assange

#6. Two people should see a relationship as a constant opportunity to improve and be improved. When lovers teach each other uncomfortable truths, they are not giving up on love. They are trying to do something very true to love: which is to make their partners more loveable.

The School Of Life

#7. Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

John Green

#8. Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

Pablo Picasso

#9. If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

Buddy Guy

#10. That's the problem with revealing true truths. They make people uncomfortable. The truth should be grand and exotic, but mostly it isn't. Mostly it's uncomfortable.

Leslie Pietrzyk

#11. It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. To say that something happened supernaturally is not just to say 'We don't understand it' but to say 'We will never understand it, so don't even try.

Richard Dawkins

#13. In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

Al Alvarez

#14. Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization.

Joel Augustus Rogers

#15. But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

Felicity Jones

#16. I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.

Melina Marchetta