Disturbing Quotes - Page 11

• 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

  Michael Moore

  Zero, Hate, Dark

  "In Defense of Zero Dark Thirty" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.

  John M. McHugh

  Troops, Care, Study

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• I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

  William Saroyan

  Laughing, People, Upset

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.

  Gene Wolfe

  Treatment, Disturbed, Persons

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.102, Macmillan

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• You're a mad scientist,' said Maggie, in what may well have been intended as a reassuring tone. 'We don't expect you to be nice. We just go to bed every night hoping you won't mutate us before we wake up.' Dr. Abbey blinked at her. 'That's...almost sweet. In a disturbing sort of a way.

  Mira Grant

  Sweet, Nice, Night

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• Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Years, House, Amusement

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Writing, Knack, Painting

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• These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Lds, Faithful

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• I can smell you, Ms. Lane," he said, even more softly. "The only blood on you is from your veins, not your womb." My head whipped to the left and I stared at him. Ok, that was one of the more disturbing things he'd ever said to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Blood, Smell, Veins

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.599, Dell

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• The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago; he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Boys, Long Ago, Expectations

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.8, Macmillan

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• She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.

  Abbi Glines

  Laughing, House, Touching

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• How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Important, Belief, Illusion

  Hanif Kureishi (2010). “Intimacy”, p.83, Faber & Faber

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• He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

  Melina Marchetta

  Ideas, Mum, No Idea

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• I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Vacuums, Cracks, Behavior

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

  Roger Ebert

  Needs, News, World

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• It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Weed, Garden, Roots

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.314, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The disturbing video taken by Keith Lamont Scott`s wife showing the moment her husband was killed by police in Charlotte provides a sobering window into the high level of compliance that people of color feel they need to maintain in their interactions with police.

  Chris Hayes

  Husband, Taken, Color

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.

  David Eddings

  Arms, Majesty, Beloved

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• We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Existentialism, Episodes, Regard

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.299, Oxford University Press

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• "Levi will kill me the minute he sees me, and I don't trust Madeline. There's something in her eyes..." "I believe that's integrity and dedication in her job." "Yeah. It's disturbing."

  Rachel Vincent

  Jobs, Integrity, Believe

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

  Elia Kazan

  People, Disgusting

  Elia Kazan, Jeff Young (1999). “Kazan: the master director discusses his films : interviews with Elia Kazan”, Newmarket Pr

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• Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter are not the problem, they are symptomatic of a much more disturbing assault on critical thought, if not rational thinking itself.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Talking, Bills

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious, profane, scatological, flat-brained, grade-school offensiveness.

  Jim Goad

  School, People, Method

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

  Glenn Beck

  America, Nationalism

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works now, and it's heart-breaking to see people make the same mistakes. They're looking at a complicated world, but they just keep blaming immigrants, and it's really disturbing that people haven't got past that.

  Moby

  Mistake, Heart, Past

  Source: thequietus.com

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