Quotes About Disruption

But liturgy is meant to be an interruption. It disrupts our reality and refocuses it on God. It reshapes our perceptions and lives with new rhythms, new holy days, a whole new story.

As French theologian Jacques Ellul once said, "Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

Hear the leaves applauding Hear the wind hurrahing Hear the surf guffawing The ways of old are dead The queen has lost her head

Can't stand war. Gets in the way of order and process and all the good things

Love didn't care about artificial boundaries. It laughed at the plans of Slayers and Theronai alike. Love did whatever the fuck it wanted, and turned the lives of everyone it touched upside down.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Good God, why had someone not told him? Why had Harry not mentioned it? Oh, by the way, my sister is remaining here indefinitely to ruin our peace.

It's distracting the boys, he says. You ponder what can be said that's enough of a fuck you. (The problem with fuck you's in this sort of place is that you habituate them; they lose their potency, and ergo must increase in outrageousness.) Finally you say, What makes you think I'm not wearing a bra, Mr. LeBump?

The earth started shaking.

God, Smith just as surely defenestrated Leviathan.

The traditional university will surely be gone in fifty years, swept away by technology.

And then, it arrived. Anxiety does not ask your permission. Anxiety does not come when expected. It's very rude. It barges in at the strangest moments, stopping all activity, focusing everything on itself. It sucks the air out of your lungs and scrambles the world. Her vision went spotty around the edges. The ringing in her ears swelled again. Her knees buckled.

Once threw a mug of tea at a policeman

Things around here have deviated from the usual

in a climate of constant technological change.