The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.
While clothes with pictures andor writing on them are not entirely an invention of the modern age, they are an unpleasant indication of the general state of things. . . . I mean, be realistic. If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.
Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit
My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.
The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.
If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.
Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.
What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water!
Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.
Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.