I’m solitary as a
I’m solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. Gail Carson Levine
Unwelcome
Ironically, tendency to ignore
Ironically, tendency to ignore inconvenient facts and unwelcome evidence is actually President Reagan’s true legacy, as I noted in ‘The Nation’ back in 2000, before the current right-wing mania for President Reagan gained its full force. Eric Alterman
She had a fierce
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty. Elizabeth Gaskell
Concealment is equated, unknowingly
Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves. Eli Siegel
The future comes like
The future comes like an unwelcome guest. Edmund Gosse
Trouble just seems to
Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded. Frank Sinatra
A half century of
A half century of living should put a good deal into a person’s face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin. Frances Parkinson Keyes
I wanted to be
I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business. Fran Kranz
The unwelcome November rain
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. F. Scott Fitzgerald
For in all the
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man’s house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. … Read more