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Quotes About Disturbance

His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions.
~ Kate Chopin
Seasickness… is caused… by the disturbance… to the inner ear " he said. " You just need… to… look… at… the horizon…" His last words disappeared as he vomited violently over the side of the boat. "What's wrong " "Doctor Death is seasick.
~ Kate Forsyth
The thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Something has changed in the character of the younger generation in a way I do not fully understand, and certain aspects of this change are undeniably disturbing.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
My foggy brain slid away and— And I was still dressed in only my bra and panties. Well, at least it's a nice set of bra and panties. Yep, these were the thoughts going through my brain as I looked at a photo of a decapitated head on my bed.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
~ Alfred Adler
Well, it's sometimes the symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemicoelectrical activity of
~ William Peter Blatty
Silence that dreadful bell! it frights the isleFrom her propriety.
~ William Shakespeare
All hell shall stir for this.
~ William Shakespeare
Profesorul avea nevoie de pace, ceea ce nu însemna neap?rat t?cere complet?. De fapt, nu p?rea s?-l deranjeze când Radical alerga pe hol sau d?dea tare sonorul radioului. Avea nevoie de o liniÅŸte interioar? pe care s? n-o tulbure lumea de afar?.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
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
Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives
~ David Niven
Ecological disturbance causes diseases to emerge. Shake a tree, and things fall out.
~ David Quammen
Ecological disturbance causes diseases to emerge. Shake a tree, and things fall out. Nearly all zoonotic diseases result from infection by one of six kinds of pathogen: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protists (a group of
~ David Quammen
Word For The Day KERFUFFLE (kuhr FUF uhl) n. Disorder; uproar; confusion
~ Deb Baker
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.
~ Jean Cocteau
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Karma and hell and suffering aren't things in their own right but disturbances in this flimsy substance of false self. The problem isn't in the disturbing things but in the thing disturbed. The thing disturbed is the false thing and if it weren't there, there'd be nothing to be disturbed. Nothing to get pierced or burned or dried out. Nothing to be wounded or slain.
~ Jed McKenna
Death releases the energy into air. If a true catastrophe is looming, the disturbance becomes such that a sensitive individual may become highly troubled by it. He may be aware exactly when and where it will occur. He may see an aura around people who are soon to die. Or he may see images of the disaster beforehand...
~ Jed Rubenfeld
I was a sensitive and easily traumatized creature who would fall into fits of weeping at any disturbance in her force field.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
~ Alice Miller