Rug Quotations

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.

I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers. I was a great tumbler, so when he showed up at practice one day, I tried to impress him, but I ended up landing on my face! When I got off the ground, I had rug burn on my nose. I was in tears because it hurt so bad!

We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion.

I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

Meditation, especially for people who don't know very much about it and think it's this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and the dust comes flying out.

I like to think that Harry Cohn is having a somewhat difficult time sleeping in his grave thinking of a chick with a white shag rug taking over his space.

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinnacle, that was the moment. I never thought I would be there. And I keep having moments like that where you just stop and say, wait a minute - how is this still going up? I'm waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under me.

For too long the voice of Mr. Kennard has cried, but no one has listened. In order for the state to clear its past, we must lift up the rug and sweep the dust.

We think a good quality company with a long track record, like Compaq is going to find the right CEO and they're going to turn this boat around and it's going to be a lot higher than it is today. ... I think they've swept most of the bad news under the rug right now and we're looking at Compaq as really going forward.

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

On the surface, the base metals look strong, but there is a danger the rug could get pulled from underneath the market.

It feels like someone just pulled the rug out from under us. I'm still in shock. We're determined, though, to find another site as quickly as possible before time runs out.

We had our bags packed, ready to go back to Atlanta. And all of a sudden, the rug is pulled out from under you. It's unfortunate. You go out there, lay it on the line for six hours, and 18 innings. To go home for the winter on a game like that is a bad feeling.

We've kind of swept that under the rug a little bit, but it's still in the back of my head a little bit. If that happened again, especially here at Richmond, I think I might act a little differently. That's definitely behind us but I will react a little differently if that happens again this year.

That was timed to play well in the courtroom when they asked for more time, ... The rationale was to say, 'Gee, you can't pull the rug out now because we have a financing deal in the works.'

The real estate market has been one of the big successes in the economy for the last 10 years. I think this would help pull the rug out from under it. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

We still don't get the respect we deserve. It's all right, though. Hey, it's cool. For the last so-and-so years, we've been under the rug. They swept us under the rug and the last two years we went to the Finals.

We argued for weeks whether the rug should be square or round.

Whenever a network lacks confidence in a show's performance, they sweep it under the rug during sweeps.

Even though I'm skeptical that this kind of issue is going to pull the rug out from Al Gore, I think it's a plus for the Republicans to be able to talk about foreign policy, to talk about national security and to talk about the failure of the administration of Bill Clinton and Al Gore in this one area.

The tobacco buyout comes at no cost to the taxpayers, and remedies the action taken by the federal government that would otherwise have pulled the rug out from under generations of families who've grown this crop.

While we don't know how many fingerprint errors are caught in the lab and then swept under the rug or, worse, how many have still not been caught and may have resulted in a wrongful conviction we clearly need a full evaluation of the errors. The argument that fingerprints are infallible evidence is simply unacceptable.

It was this year or never. Even if I am mistaken I don't think Lyon will win the Champions League. That elimination in those conditions will pull the rug from under their feet.

We've had the playoff mentality for a while now where it's you've got to push it under the rug whether it's good or bad and move on to the next game.

This obviously shows a fair amount of disarray. They really went from bad to worse, from taking an ongoing bad policy decision and making us think they were going to do the right thing, then pulling the rug out from under a whole lot of hungry people.

After 31 years of service, they're going to pull the rug out? That's not going to happen.

As painful as it may sometimes be, we must not sweep these issues under the rug of embarrassment, silence and indifference,

This has been a planned separation. We weren't surprised. We didn't have the rug pulled out from under us. There's been a six-year trend to have the marathon stand on its own two feet.

I walked up to the customer, and said, 'I think I know what she wants,' ... They bought the rug and he never said another word about me not selling. He was born in America, but was an Armenian man from a different era. He adapted and accepted the idea of a daughter in a non-secretarial position, and he complimented me to everyone.

ask hard questions as to how this expensive feat can be achieved without pulling the financial rug out from under other priority conservation projects.

Chicago people are kind of fatalistic, but they continue to hope that somehow, some way the Cubs will shock even them and win it just one time. Their fatalism allows them to enjoy the team's success, knowing that one horrible thing will happen down the line to rip the rug out from underneath them.

Clearly, you don't want to sweep this under the rug and say it's insignificant, because it's not, ... Obviously, it puts on a spotlight to ensure discipline around compliance with processes and systems in place, and certainly, we'll continue to put our best foot forward for hiring.

The British and Americans have so much tied up with Museveni, I don't think they are about to pull the rug from under him.

The information relayed was disturbing to the African American community. These are threats we heard in the early 1960s. For them to be swept under the rug would be an insult to the black community and the state Department of Education.

The irony here is that we are a labor union, and our responsibility is to enforce the contract to protect the members, ... How can people look you in the eye and think that's what we are going to do if we are basically willing to pull the rug out from under our own employees?

This has the effect of pulling the rug out from under the administration in trying to forge an agreement on Kosovo,

It is unacceptable to pull the rug out from under hundreds of thousands of our neighbors living with HIV/AIDS and simply say your government is not there for you. We should be focusing on ways to improve these programs, not shoving them not the cutting room floor.

It's not something we brush under the rug and hope people do well. We're on it constantly.

We want to feel comfortable that the rug won't be pulled out from under us.

It's home, and it's going to be fun. It's going to be a good environment. I know the organization pretty well, ... But I'm sweeping all that other stuff under the rug and kind of focusing in on the game itself.