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Quotes About Disturbance

A paixão é uma perturbação da tranquilidade da alma.
~ Rubem Alves
You have to do normal things or they don't go away. You have to reassure them. Or they just stand there staring at you, as if you're a car-crash, or pornography.
~ Rupert Thomson
Sometimes, I have a dared dream to myself that one day, history may even say that my voice--which disturbed the white man's smugness, and his arrogance, and his complacency--that my voice helped to save America from a grave, possibly even a fatal catastrophe.
~ Malcolm X
Disturbance comes only from within- from our own perceptions. Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist
~ Marcus Aurelius
11. When thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to thyself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
When you are disturbed by events and lose your serenity, quickly return to yourself and don't stay upset longer than the experience lasts; for you'll have more mastery over your inner harmony by continually returning to it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics aspired to the repression of all emotion, and the Epicureans to freedom from all disturbance; yet in the upshot the one has become a synonym of stubborn endurance, the other for unbridled licence.
~ Marcus Aurelius
It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgements
~ Marcus Aurelius
One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.
~ Bob Keeshan
Human beings are amazing at finding ways to waste their own time.
~ David Fincher
And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.
~ Enrique Iglesias
She was highly intelligent, with a gift for logical thought which many people found disturbing—especially men, who did not expect it or like it in a woman.
~ Anne Perry
from the classically executed lifelike bouquets, tempting you to reach for the petals that fell on a three-dimensional tablecloth, to a new and disturbing style in which the colors seemed to blaze with such intensity they destroyed the old lines, the old solidity, to make a vision like those states which I'm nearest my delirium and flowers grow before my eyes and crackle like the flames of lamps.
~ Anne Rice
Porque así es como lo llamarían los humanos. Fueron ellos quienes inventaron a Satán ¿no es así? Satánico no es más que el calificativo que dieron al comportamiento de aquellos que perturbaban el orden en el que querían vivir los hombres
~ Anne Rice
There is always an enormous temptation to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end.
~ Annie Dillard
Where did your art go while you were tweeting?
~ Seth Godin
Damn, I need eye bleach.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is not like Gloomy Sunday, with a second ending when the people are disturbed.
~ Emilie Autumn
Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?
~ Oswald Chambers
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
Ideas disturb the levelness of life
~ Susan Sontag
Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.
~ John F. Schumaker
He was intolerant of quiet," says Walter Map, "and did not hesitate to disturb almost half of Christendom.
~ John Guy
One of the first symptoms of depression, even before your mood drops to new lows, is sleep disturbance. Either you can't get up or you can't get to sleep or both.
~ John J. Ratey