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  • Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
  • If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

    Loss   Order   Grace  
  • Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

    Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75
  • Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.

    Home   Australia   News  
  • A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

    Sleep   Naps   Lectures  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.3045, e-artnow
  • I’m going to carry you now,” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.

    Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.369, Ballantine Books
  • A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.

    People   Bombs   Done  
    "Clinton urges caution over Iraq as Bush is granted war powers". William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at a Labour Party conference in the UK, quoted in The Independent, October 3, 2002.
  • The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.

    House   Energy   Guests  
    FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 02, 2013
  • If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

    Scott Hahn (2009). “Signs of Life: 40 Catholic Customs and Their Biblical Roots”, p.91, Image
  • The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

    Dream   Wall   Reality  
    Stephen King (2016). “Insomnia”, p.221, Simon and Schuster
  • Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

    Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1565, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're playing a festival, people come to see music in general - so don't be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.

    Source: www.billboard.com
  • We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

    Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.81, Harvard University Press
  • We obviously don't want to cause problems for the Afghan government, President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan people. In fact, we want them to support our efforts on their behalf and not see us as unwelcome occupiers.

  • All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

    Curves   Vices   Rising  
  • Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

    Mean   Negative   Guests  
  • A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

    Wrinkles   Half   Faces  
  • The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

    Book   Answers   Helping  
  • School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.

  • I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

    Lonely   School   Teeth  
  • I think if there were to be a solution to the problem of free will, it would have to be a compatibilist one. Unfortunately, from that it does not follow that there is such a solution. Many philosophers find this an unwelcome message, and as often happens in philosophy, they punish the messenger by ascribing to him an entirely imaginary but untenable position.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings.

  • The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.

    Death   Grief   Men  
  • I know specifically me being somebody who has had most of my experiences within the black church, that's cultural... you gotta put on your church clothes when you got to church...and it's nothing wrong with that - that's absolutely fine! But I think what's happening to a new generation ,the hip hop generation, there's astigmatism, a feeling that I'm unwelcome.

    Source: thegospelguru.com
  • This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.230, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.

    Attitude   Real   Talking  
  • When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

    Light   Soul   Brain  
  • I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

    Trying   World   May  
    Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.
  • For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

    Heart   Men   People  
  • My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.

    Fashion   Eye   Simple  
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