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Quotes About Disturbance

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.
~ John Waters
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I hate it when someone turns on the light while I'm sleeping!
~ Unknown
A threat was to materialize, however, coming from a source I had never seen as a potential danger—that is, from Gilberte and myself. I should really have been disturbed by what reassured me, by what I took for happiness. In love, happiness is an abnormal state, capable of instantly conferring on the pettiest-seeming incident, which can occur at any moment, a degree of gravity that in other circumstances it would never have.
~ Marcel Proust
Sleep is divine but by no means stable; the slightest shock makes it volatile. A friend to habit, it is kept night after night in tis appointed place by habit, more steadfast than itself, protected from any possible disturbance; but if it is displaced, if it is no longer subjugated, it melts away like a vapour. It is like youth and love, never to be recaptured.
~ Marcel Proust
Bowlby concluded that in the first 24 months of life, children have an essential need to develop a bond with at least one adult caregiver—usually a parent, and most often the mother. Attachment is different from other relationships in that it is a strong and lasting emotional tie with one particular person, which, if disturbed, can have long-term effects on development.
~ Unknown
I expose myself to life, and from that, ideas come as a surprise. I totally dismiss the ones that are pleasant and easy. I'm only interested in the ones that really disturb me and that I get obsessed about. They're what bring me to new territory.
~ Marina Abramovic
War is just a damn nuisance.
~ Unknown
As soon as you cross your property line, you might as well write off the possibility of getting anything else done that day.
~ Mark Frauenfelder
Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--
~ David Nicholls, One Day
That you exist, is offense enough to arrest you.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
For fuck's sake, these humans are always in the way, trying to save me from stuff.
~ Martha Wells
leadership requires disturbing people—but at a rate they can absorb.
~ Unknown
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
~ Unknown
and beeping, obviously sure that I was either too stupid or too deaf to hear the racket.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
They disrupted the performance
~ Unknown
Squirrels no!
~ Unknown
A wanderer in darkness, she followed an eccentric orbit, each new disturbance angling her closer to some long-awaited rendezvous. She could only hope that when the moment came, she'd be wise enough to know it, and brave enough to act.
~ Unknown
Resistance loves keeping us busy with anything but the one thing that will most help us grow.
~ Matthew Kelly
Life - such as it is - always seems to get in the way
~ Megan McCafferty
I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.
~ Melina Marchetta
No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.
~ Michael Cadnum
Noise harms your body and boils your brain. The word "noise" derives from the Latin word nausea.
~ Michael Finkel
When a prophet is accepted and deified, his message is lost. The prophet is only useful so long as he is stoned as a public nuisance, calling us to repentance, disturbing our comfortable routines, breaking our respectable idols, shattering our sacred conventions."7 We will always have a love-hate relationship with the prophets.
~ Michael L. Brown