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Our unhappiness and conflict came not as a result of an unreceptive environment, but from believing the culture's 'born-gay' message and resigning ourselves to an unhappy life dominated by unwanted same-sex attractions.

I think he's in serious difficulty. I think a lot of people are unhappy with him.

I was getting to the point where I was very unhappy and I didn't want to be a part of it,

I think people are unhappy with what's happening,

I think he is the point man for the discontent with the Bush administration. There are many people who associate him with Bush policies, notably the war in Iraq, that they are very unhappy with.

I think it's amazingly ironic and callous he would be spending election night with a group of lobbyists. I don't think he understands how unhappy constituents are with what appears to be a trade of principle for power.

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

Those who are unhappy about the decision must have a major problem.

We have a lot of citizens that are very unhappy with this site and we have a lot of charter people who want to put it there without regard to what the citizens want. I would say we're just beginning a long a difficult process.

use scare tactics on the players. You have to realize that any one player, and there are a large number of unhappy players, can file an action in court or with an agency which will put everything into the public eye.

We're unhappy about it. The contractor failed to meet his schedule.

We're very unhappy with such moves by the administration at a time when border states are more concerned about immigration than they've been in a century.

When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

We haven't decided yet. We're trying to sort out our strategy. Clearly the people are very unhappy about this law.

We were unhappy with the first 18 minutes of the game, and we weren't reacting defensively the way we like to see them react. In the second half, we stepped it up defensively and were able to get out and run.

We've made a number of releases on the subject, and if it happens again, how we react will be another thing. If it's still going on at grounds, then we're going to be very disappointed and unhappy about it. But since Sydney we haven't had too many problems on the field, so we'll take each game as it goes.

We're a long way from being down and out. We've lost more than we would have liked. But as unhappy as I have been at times, we're a long way from sitting at the house come tournament time.

We don't have a choice. If we play them really good early, we've got a good shot. If we lose, we have nothing to be unhappy about, as long as the kids play hard.

People have the absolute right to be just as unhappy and miserable as they want to be.

A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

There are unhappy parents, students and staff. The only ones who are happy are the administration.

Most people don't relate to and can't generate concern for something they don't encounter personally or feel personally affected by. People have to have the palpable negatives in their lives dissected for them in ways that let them understand the root causes of unhealthy, unhappy conditions in their lives and then be allowed to really see and feel the positive alternatives.

If people believe the world is here to satisfy them, whenever they begin to encounter their limitations, they become unhappy.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

... there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.

If you're unhappy with the way you played, what's the point?

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

When I was 19, I was in a horrific car accident, and it taught me that at the end of our life, we ask all these questions. And my questions, I discovered, were: Did I really live my life? Did I love? Did I matter? And I was unhappy with the answers.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

I think that others can drive a creature to naughtiness, always accusing and blaming them. After a while it must make the creature unhappy and drive him...to be naughty, because nobody expects them to be good...

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—

The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

We didn't play real well in the third period, they kind of took it to us. It left a real sour taste in our mouth. The coaches and players were pretty unhappy and used that as something to kind of get us a little extra fired up.

We are glad to have a class in the computer room and unhappy if we can not.

To be unhappy is only half the misfortune to be pitied is misery complete

We're not unhappy about where we are. We're feeling good about our ability to attract a better field.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

Well, that's true... to me, communism is a... it's a graveyard of skulls, of very unhappy people, below the level of the top bureaucracy.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.

We don't go to school to learn, but to be soaked in the prejudices of our class, without which we should be useless and unhappy.

We are all carousers and loose women here; How unhappy we are together!

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

I’m happy when what I’m doing is helping people and unhappy when what I’m doing isn’t helping people.

Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realize how widespread envy was.

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then — we went on dancing.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

When you're playing a character who's cruel, look for the places where he's kind. When you're playing a character who is unhappy, look for the places where he has a glint of merriment.

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

We were very unhappy with our blocking and execution offensively (last week). I think our senior linemen stepped up this week and did a great job tonight.

Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

We said at the time we were very unhappy with that course of action.

There has to be a lot of communication between the contractor, the architect and the owner. If not, you end up with a lot of unhappy people.

A group of protesters who are very unhappy at the rapid expansion of Starbucks have been repeatedly smashing the windows of a Starbucks store in Maine. Customers say it's been really inconvenient because, several times now, they've had to use the Starbucks across the street.

I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

I actually liked the disolation of winter; it was the season when it was okay to be unhappy. If I were to ever kill myself, I thought it would be in the summer.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.