Unpleasant Story Quotes

#1. Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

Thomas Malthus

#2. Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Hans Christian Andersen

#3. As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

David Blaine

#4. Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Tony Abbott

#5. He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from, and frankly it doesn't matter. Not right now. Histories and myths are renamed and reinvented eternally across the world. I can't speak to that. What I do know? This is your story.

Leanna Renee Hieber

#6. And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake!

Nina George

#7. There's something desirable about anything you're to as opposed to something you're not.

John Steinbeck

#8. When the first movie to show the anger people have about the war is a grade Z zombie movie, that tells you all you need to know about how afraid of ruffling anyone's feathers people in the movie business are today.

Joe Dante

#9. Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Steven Pinker

#10. Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.

Richard Killeen

#11. The healing power of love and relationships has been documented in an increasing number of well-designed scientific studies involving hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world.

Dean Ornish

#12. If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

Lemony Snicket

#13. For seventy years we have been brushing our teeth and yet they have not become clean, so is that thing for real or is it a falsity?

Dada Bhagwan

#14. She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

Patrick White