Unpleasant Ideas Quotes

#1. The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in contrasting the past and the present, the employment of mind and dissipation of unpleasant ideas which only reading could produce made her thankfully turn to a book.

Jane Austen

#2. An important part of becoming your best self is being very careful about your self-talk and self-stories.

Bryant McGill

#3. The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply unpleasant idea. If God wanted to forgive us our sins, why didn't he just forgive them? Why did he have to have his son tortured?

Richard Dawkins

#4. There is a blessedness surely to be believed,
and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

Jack Kerouac

#5. I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

Patti Smith

#6. There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. Virtue in a woman is like pepper in the soup. A little makes for a nice seasoning. But
overdo it, and no one wants very much of you.

Lisa Kleypas

#8. Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They're epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.

Virginia Heffernan

#11. The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem.

Bill Belichick

#12. I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.

Fred Couples

#13. It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

Sigmund Freud

#14. The predominant idea behind globalization, in its most virulent form, is an unpleasant kind of social Darwinism - that the world is for winners not losers, that only the successful count, that money is considerably more important than votes.

Anita Roddick

#15. It was not like him to think so much of the past.

Stephen King

#16. Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others.

Marvin J. Ashton

#17. In the first place, the ideas of people who are not intellectually free are always in a muddle, and it's extremely difficult to talk to them; and, secondly, they usually love no one, and have nothing to do with women, and their mysticism has an unpleasant effect on sensitive people. I

Anton Chekhov