#unpleasant

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#fire #hammer #happens #i #me

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths. ↗

— John Stockwell

#attention #bowl #diverting #effective #military

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her. ↗

— John McCain

#barbara boxer #because #bitterly #boxer #experience

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#change #takes #talking #then #truths

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#mind #more #nothing #person #than

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#big #big head #cater #every #film

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#dealing #double #eccentric #i #in the past

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

#human-nature #psychology #unpleasant-ideas #nature

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#certainly #challenges #different #food #shortage

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience. ↗

— Keith Henson

#anyone #because #been #degrading #doing