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Quotes About Disturbance

When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.
~ Julian Barratt
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.
~ Iain Sinclair
We must always be disturbed by the truth.
~ Dogen
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness
~ Sigmund Freud
Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.
~ Sir Ronald A. Fisher
We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.
~ May Sarton
Z transatlantických hovorov ma ide rozhodiÃ…Â¥, lebo v pozadí po?ujem Å¡um oceánu a som celá nervózna, že nás po?úvajú ryby alebo ?o.
~ Meg Cabot
Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere -- in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be.
~ Meister Eckhart
For he mixes up unanswerable things with false conclusions, he is perpetually letting the cat out of the bag and exposing our tricks, putting a colour to our actions, disturbing us with our own memory, indecently revealing corners of the soul.
~ Belloc
Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.
~ Bernard Cornwell
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.
~ Hjalmar Branting
If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. 
~ Sun Tzu
Ese imperioso deseo de comenzar de nuevo, de borrar las cartas que el destino te ha repartido, es un sentimiento engañoso y perturbador.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Dentro dela há tudo menos silêncio.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Does this mean that even in a deep dreamless sleep, the mind is in some degree active - yet without us being aware of it? Thus the mind is not conscious of the mind? Have we a divided mind, then, or even two? And if it is disturbance that makes a man get up in his sleep and walk, then do the emotions persist even in sleep? But without awareness, this would suggest the emotions are merely a bodily expression like yawning or needing to make water.
~ Jude Morgan
Empaths tend to be light sleepers. A partner's snoring or thrashing around can easily disturb us. We may also need more sleep than our mates, and we get thrown off when our dream cycle is interrupted too.
~ Judith Orloff
Excuse me, but you're disturbing the other students," Mrs. Nicely, the library media specialist, said,
~ Julia DeVillers
Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Jack stopped cold. Where had THAT come from? From your conscience, a niggling little voice - probably his conscience - told him. Damn. He really needed to get a better night's sleep. His conscience was never this loud.
~ Julia Quinn
The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
~ Ezra Pound
The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.
~ Flora Rheta Schreiber
And that makes it okay?" "Yep. Because that's the balance." "And I, to keep within your metaphor, disturbed the balance?" "Exactly. That's the beauty of our system. It can be tweaked and twisted—Lord knows I do it all the time—but when you keep within it, right or wrong, it somehow works. When you don't, when you lose balance even with the best of intentions, it leads to chaos and catastrophe." "That
~ Harlan Coben
I just don't like my world disturbed without some warning.
~ Harper Lee
I just don't like my world disturbed without warning.
~ Harper Lee