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Quotes About Disturbance

Les gens qui ne sont pas indifférents à l'extrême beauté : ils la déteste très consciemment. Le très laid suscite parfois un peu de compassion ; le très beau irrite sans pitié. La clé du succès réside dans la vague joliesse qui ne dérange personne.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.
~ Brad Stone
Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.
~ Raymond Loewy
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
~ Émile Durkheim
Distraction is the primary spiritual problem in our day.
~ Richard J. Foster
It would be simpler than dealing with this sideshow.
~ Richard Kadrey
Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I am the only pest in this room!
~ Roald Dahl
I believe that's only because it's an unconventional idea. It breaks down our whole conditioned system. The first thing you learn in a logic class is the syllogism, "All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal." And to knock that one over really disturbs people and I find it fascinating that they are disturbed because I don't think they really want to die; they just don't want to think a new thought.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I don't laugh very much, he said, realizing the truth of the statement as he made it, this sudden bit of knowledge disturbing him.
~ Robert Cormier
Every time you disturb reality, nature has to balance it out. The black on your soul isn't evil, it's a promise to make up for what you have done. It's a mark, not a death sentence. And you can get rid of it given time.
~ Kim Harrison
It causeth unease. - Oh it doth, doth it?
~ L. Neil Smith
In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights.
~ Yoweri Museveni
Mankind aspires to comfort. To disturb life is to take the road of genuine desperation.
~ Yasmina Reza
Now... what I feel these in my brain is just like... some kind of foreign body... like having a very thin little eyelash in your eye. You feel generally okay, but that eye with the last in it-you can't get it off your mind for a second.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
~ Yiddish Proverb
Apparently the demented mouse also suffered from an eating disorder
~ Yukio Mishima
If mosquitoes buzzed in our ears and disturbed our sleep, we knew how to kill the mosquitoes; but if a thought buzzed in our mind and kept us awake at night, most of us did not know how to kill the thought.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
~ Li Peng
The things that disturb us at midnight are negligible at 9 a.m.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
He laid her hands, palms upward, against his face, and she sat looking down at his bent head, a little disturbed in her soul that he should fling away his principles and his convictions quite so heedlessly for her sake. Mr. Murray, for instance, seemed not to have altered his chosen course a single degree because of Eden. Of course Mr. Murray was a Yankee. Virginia men, she had heard, were more considerate.
~ Elswyth Thane
How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history—greater than the fall of empires—I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
~ Emil Cioran