Quotes About Intrusive

S]he had difficulty crediting it could really happen in her own lifetime. She knew this was exactly how people would feel just before the real apocalypse, that nearly everyone who'd faced some intrusive threat to their everyday existence – war, revolution, genocide, purges, disaster – had faced it with the firm conviction that things like this just didn't happen or didn't happen here or didn't happen to people like them.

You know when things get inside you and you can't stop going round and round the same piece of misery.

Measuring someone is borderline invasive. You have to touch them and record their physical presence in the world. It's a pretty specific way to understand someone.

thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away

We've just inserted catheters into your carotid artery and jugular vein," says the nurse. "Right now your blood is being replaced with a synthetic oxygen-rich solution.

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You can't believe the amount of speculation you get over your private life.

My wife thinks I'm too nosy. At least that's what she writes in her diary.

But unbidden and unwanted thoughts are the hardest to expel from one's mind.

unbidden and unwanted thoughts are the hardest to expel from one's mind.

Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren't part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They're a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that.

Grief is a sneaky thing, always coming and going like some guest you didn't invite and can't turn away.

Now that I'm in your mind, want to see some naked mental pictures of Jace?

Not really, but after that I think about how I could kill him while he slept if I really wanted to, and then I feel better.

Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts that trigger anxiety

Mass surveillance by the state is therefore inherently repressive, even in the unlikely case that it is not abused by vindictive officials to do things like gain private information about political opponents. Regardless of how surveillance is used or abused, the limits it imposes on freedom are intrinsic to its existence.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

Well, I like regulation as little as anybody else. It can be intrusive. It can be detailed. It can be bureaucratic. It can be unevenly administered. It can be unfair. But most regulations that we have for mutual funds and for banks are regulations that we earned. We did something wrong and we're paying a price for it.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.

Rightly understood, it is an all-embracing, intrusive question, and for this reason many prefer to dodge it or to proceed as if it were an abstract, theoretical question.

She didn't believe that. Didn't agree with it. But intrusive thoughts were trespassers. You didn't invite them in. But they broke in, anyway, whether they were true or false.

I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.