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Quotes About Disturbance

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed.
~ Michael Leunig
I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?
~ Jeremy Sisto
If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.
~ Sun Tzu
So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
~ Michael Ondaatje
If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
~ Thomas Merton
The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When we are not realized, we are moving on the periphery, like a wheel and we are disturbed. But a realized soul is on the axis, which is silent. So he has the peace within himself.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
What is the late November doingWith the disturbance of the spring.
~ T. S. Eliot
He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.
~ Tana French
But when emotions enter the picture, our mind's selective attention can be less useful: we can avoid noticing something not because it's irrelevant but because it might disturb us.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
simply noting the disturbance may be enough to dislodge it from the mind.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
Their rule of thumb for classifying a state of mind was simple but profound: it depended on whether the mind state led to inner peace or disturbed the mind.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
At this level of mindfulness, it may help to use the method of naming—bringing to mind a single word that identifies the nature of the disturbance.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we've had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.
~ Taslima Nasrin
That rooster. That goddamned, big-mouthed cock. I
~ Tawny Taylor
We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.
~ Taylor Caldwell
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
~ Julius Caesar
Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art.
~ Adolf Loos
No, rebellion is what the Duke of Monmouth did, it is a petty disturbance, an aberration, predestined to fail. Revolution is like the wheeling of stars round the pole. It is driven by unseen powers, it is inexorable, it moves all things at once, and men of discrimination may understand it, predict it, benefit from it.
~ Neal Stephenson
Noise" includes any unwanted signal that contaminates the target of measurement.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm on a journey seeking personal enlightenment, and you are disturbing my aura of love.
~ Christine Feehan
Disorder in here harshing my mellow.
~ Christopher Moore
You understand how it is worked—they send their bullies into the country to provoke disturbances, and when the police put them down, that's an atrocity.
~ Upton Sinclair