Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

Grant Morrison

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

It was like a brother-to-brother relationship. It makes me upset to think about him.

It makes me upset to think of him.

John Green

Why is it upset? Shouldn't it be downset?

John Green

Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas.

Ted Nugent

If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot.

Melissa Rauch

There is always a reason. When I look back on things that really upset me at the moment, I can always see why it happened in retrospect.

Learned Hand

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

Learned Hand

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Marianne Williamson

We shouldn't use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.

Oswald Chambers

If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.

Kathleen Hanna

Obviously, we're really upset about the state of the election. It's horrifying, as everybody knows, that we could have a totally fascist president.

Klaus Schulze

When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.

Carmelo Anthony

I wanted to play. (But) it's nothing I can be upset about.

It upsets me so much that someone would come into our yard and vandalize.

Gerard Butler

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

George Sand

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Chrissy Teigen

We are human. Some days are harder than others. One day something will upset me more than it would have the day before.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

I don't think (Fox executives) were all that upset about the publicity.

Iyanla Vanzant

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

Mara Wilson

Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.

Louise Hay

I'm no longer curious about things that will upset me.

Andrea Yates

Andrea is more upset now than before because she is getting better and realizes what happened.

Eckhart Tolle

When you observe yourself reacting to what are minor things in your life, you will find that the mechanism is the same as when major things seem to go wrong in your life and there is upset.

Ellen Muth

There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works.

Kathy Reichs

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

Scott Eastwood

I don't want to talk about the vampire schedule. That's just gonna upset me.

Seth Godin

If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I’m going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara)