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Quotes About Disturbing

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.
~ Dave Chappelle
do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are]... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.
~ George Washington
Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?
~ Georgette Heyer
It's disturbing to observe how partisan politicians play games with federal programs that help working people survive and thrive.
~ Raphael Warnock
I'm thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It's appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes 'Catching Fire' while simultaneously promoting the Capitol's punitive forms of entertainment.
~ Suzanne Collins
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
~ Damien Hirst
I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles sunning themselves. Slightly disturbing if you thought about how many more were swimming around your toes, but also rather wonderful.
~ Mark Haddon
she told me that a friend of hers had heard of me and exclaimed "he's disturbing to read." now i like that – "disturbing to read: -- like popping pills or pushing the plunger down, like big knives and rusty razors. i'm fucking disturbing – let me disturb you too
~ Scott C. Holstad
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.
~ Jennifer Armintrout
Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying
~ Suzanne Collins
His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.
~ Keir Starmer
When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.
~ Marion Cotillard
Where one might expect horror, the supernatural, or traditional paroxysms of dread and fear, one discovers disturbing sadness . . .
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Medicine is, I have found, a strange and in many ways disturbing business.
~ Atul Gawande
I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks hungry in some dangerous way that can't be explained. She's always so nice and friendly. Exactly the disposition of a baby killer.
~ Augusten Burroughs
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I had a disturbing dream last night. Most disturbing. Would you like to hear it?" "Absolutely," lies Zeus, who has, in common with us all, a horror of hearing the details of anyone else's dreams.
~ Stephen Fry
The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time's great tower, everything was still happening.
~ Stephen King
Tied to my reading lamp was a single balloon. Filled with helium, it floated in a morning sunray which slanted in through one of the high windows. On it was a picture of my face, the eyes gone, blood running down from the ragged sockets, a scream distorting the mouth on the balloon's thin and bulging rubber skin. I looked at it and I screamed.
~ Stephen King
The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time's great tower, everything was still happening.
~ Stephen King
What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.
~ Lewis Black
Lady Ty looked at Fleet and they both giggled. I hoped that it was the alcohol because I didn't like the idea of the Goddess of the River Tyburn giggling—it was disturbing on so many levels.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Truth itself is a casualty as the result of a disturbing trend in academia to fully embrace postmodern moral relativism.
~ Ben Shapiro
After I retired, I spent a quarter of a century in the business, and when I retired and a new regime took over, Vince McMahon Jr. and that, and in the beginning I went back to help out. I color commentated with him, but then I started to see things that were disturbing to me.
~ Bruno Sammartino