I still have never met Harry Saltzman, and was told he is quite unpleasant.
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
To learn English you must begin by thrusting the jaw forward, almost clenching the teeth, and practically immbilizing the lips. In this way the English produce the series of unpleasant little mews of which their language consists.
This was an unpleasant trend. I didn’t want a lot of guys popping in and out of my bedroom. I wanted one who would stay.
Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
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?
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.
There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.
I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.
It's very, very hard to speak truth to power when the truth is unpleasant. I think it's one of the toughest things especially a young person has to do and the only way you can do it is if you're willing to walk out the door if he doesn't take your advice. Or if you're willing to walk out the door if he goes over the line.
When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.
Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.
Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.
