Uncomfortably Quotes

While the rise in core prices is a bit uncomfortably high, this stand-alone report is not evidence that soaring energy prices are feeding into other prices. - Sherry Cooper

We are uncomfortably teeter the line between being just sensitive enough to be attractive while remaining guarded enough to conceal the depth of our insecurities. - Kemmy Nola

The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close. - Marguerite Kelly

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion. - Jean Rhys

Sharp..but not uncomfortably sharp..like plasticine scissors. - Alex Turner

Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute. - Erich Heller

Oil is uncomfortably high; it is inflationary... If you are struggling a bit on the continent, as Germany is, you really do not want high input prices. - Hilary Cook

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can. - Richard Russo

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie. The rude shocks and uncomfortably constraining influences of life disappear among graceful women and poetical men; they are the most deceptive beings in creation; distrust and doubt cannot stand before them; they create what they imagine; if they do not lie to others, they do to their own hearts; for illusion is their element, fiction their vocation, and pleasures in appearance their happiness. Beware of grace in woman, and poetry in man -- weapons the more dangerous because the least dreaded! - Marquis De Custine

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. - James Rouse