Upset famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.
-- Adam Lambert -
The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.
-- Adam Sandler -
The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.
-- Akif Pirincci -
I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
-- Albert Camus -
If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.
-- Albert Ellis -
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.
-- Alexandra Daddario -
C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.
-- Alexandra Potter -
My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.
-- Amy Winehouse -
We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.
-- Andrew Bernstein -
People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.
-- Andrew Greeley -
Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?
-- Andrew Napolitano -
Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
-- Andy Biersack -
Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.
-- Ann Coulter -
My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.
-- Ann Coulter -
My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
I've never had my heart broken. And I don't want to have my heart broken. I'm afraid of it. Even when I break someone else's heart, I'm really upset about it. And I'm not even feeling half of what they are...
-- Ashley Benson -
Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge. That does not confer upon us a freedom to ignore the knowledge we already have, to postpone action that it appears to demand at a given time. Who knows, asks Robert Browning, but the world may end tonight? True, but on available evidence most of us make ready to commute on the 8:30 next day.
-- Austin Bradford Hill -
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...
-- Barbara Pym -
I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
-- Barry McGuigan -
An ex-girlfriend once got upset when I told her that music is the most important thing in my life. It's more important than anyone else could ever be. I don't want to be overly dramatic and say it's the only thing that gets me up and keeps me going. But people in your life come and go. As you go through your life, you make friendships, you break friendships, you have relationships. Music is the one thing I've always been able to rely on.
-- Ben Gibbard -
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
-- Ben Stein -
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.
-- Bernhard Langer -
Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.
-- Bernie Mac -
Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.
-- Big Sean -
I recognize that I have a problem with my temper. For those times it has ever caused me to do anything that gave anyone understandable and justifiable reason to be upset, I am sincerely sorry.
-- Bobby Knight -
I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset.
-- Bon Scott -
Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.
-- Brent Runyon -
In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .
-- Brian Tracy -
For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.
-- Bruno of Cologne -
The more something upsets you, the more it is meant for you. When it no longer upsets you, it is no longer needed because the lesson is complete.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.
-- Byron Katie -
Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I still get mad. I still get upset. But I let it go more quickly.
-- Candy Crowley -
You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!
-- Carrie Fisher -
What an amazing day," Bree said, stretching in her seat. "Thanks to me and my weather charm." I said lightly. Robbie and Hunter both looked at me in alarm. "You didn't," Said Robbie. "You didn't," Said Hunter. I was enjoying this. "Maybe I did, maybe I didn't." Hunter looked upset. "You can't be serious!" Cahn't, I thought. Cahn too.
-- Cate Tiernan -
I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
-- Channing Tatum -
You are upset because one of your actors got on the wrong lane doing something with the wrong people. And you want to blame somebody else for it. And you got to dig up some poor-ass idiot that don't have the brain of a retarded spastican and make him a cult leader!
-- Charles Manson -
I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down. I'd probably join the revolution down south somewhere and try to save my life on the planet Earth. I might go to Libya. I might go see the Ayatollah. I might go to France, catch somebody in France I'm upset with.
-- Charles Manson -
I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.
-- Cheryl Rainfield -
Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.
-- Chetan Bhagat -
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
-- Chris Lilley -
One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.
-- Chris Ware -
The thing is, you don't even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who the f--- cares? Like if somebody tells me, 'Oh, you look curvier.' That should not be a diss. The fact is, we live in a time where that is a diss. It's horrible we can be like, 'You look so skinny,' and someone's like, 'Thank you!' That's horrible. That's equally as horrible to me. So the time we live in, it's upsetting.
-- Chrissy Teigen -
. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, I’m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, it’s unsettling.
-- Christopher Moore -
I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.
-- Colin Firth -
I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it.
-- Corbin Bleu -
Rush Limbaugh says if the health care bill passes, he will leave the country. The Democrats are upset, because if they knew that, they would have passed the bill years ago.
-- Craig Ferguson -
There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut off the Internet. Al Gore is strongly opposed to it. Not because he invented the Internet. Because he did. But because he just signed up for Match.com.
-- Craig Ferguson -
The idea of having Australians upset at me is just awful.
-- Craig Ferguson -
No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.
-- Curtis Sliwa -
When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.
-- Cynthia Lord -
Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".
-- Dale Carnegie -
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled! [People who get upset and worried at the first sign of misfortune are only making their situation worse and thereby doubling their troubles. Stay calm and happy. Cool and joyful heads are more likely to survive and prevail.]
-- Daniel Defoe -
I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
-- Daphne Guinness -
The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.
-- David Harvey -
I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.
-- David James -
He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.
-- David Levithan -
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.
-- David Suzuki -
I used to do some terrible things in the marshalling area to upset my rivals.
-- Dawn Fraser -
This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.
-- Deb Caletti -
I'm not afraid to upset people. But I am not as upset because I understand what I'm up against.
-- Denzel Washington -
We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.
-- Derek Landy -
There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.
-- Derren Brown -
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
-- Desmond Tutu -
If I'm traveling, I'll take a film camera and a digital camera because sometimes there are moments where, if you've lost it, or if coming back and it accidentally goes through the X-ray machine and it gets overexposed, you might have had a really important moment to you and you would be really upset that you didn't have a back-up.
-- Dianna Agron -
What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine’s death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn’t show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.
-- Dorothy Dunnett -
You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you
-- Eamon -
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
-- Earl Warren -
When the tides of life turn against you And the current upsets your boat, Don't waste those tears on what might have been, Just lie on your back and float.
-- Edward Norton -
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
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.
-- Ellen Muth -
I always have red nail polish on my nails, so if they ever discontinue the red polish I wear from OPI, I'd be really upset.
-- Emma Roberts -
To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.
-- Eric Shanteau -
You have to treat it like a fresh character. Sure, there are guidelines so that you don't upset people, but you have to find your own way,
-- Erica Durance -
I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!
-- Fernando Pessoa -
Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.
-- Ferruccio Lamborghini -
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.
-- François Lelord -
Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
-- Frank A. Clark -
It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.
-- Fred Wilson -
When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.
-- Freddie Highmore -
I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.
-- Freddie Highmore -
I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they’re achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.
-- Frederick Seidel -
The world will rightfully be upset over so much inhumanity, and a hate will burn that can never be extinguished. How long will this reign of terror continue?
-- Friedrich Kellner -
Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.
-- Garth Ennis -
On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.
-- George Clooney -
Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
-- George Hamilton -
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
-- George Iles -
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality.
-- Georges Bataille
