Disturbed Quotes - Page 13

• Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Disease, Chiropractic, Entity

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• If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

  Epictetus

  Men, Thinking, Blame

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• So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

  Michael Ondaatje

  War, Yellow, Nurse

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.178, Vintage

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• We must always be disturbed by the truth.

  Dogen

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• It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rocks, Law, Snakes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4043, Delphi Classics

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• I remember the stink of the liverwurst.
  How I was put on a platter and laid
  between the mayonnaise and the bacon.
  The rhythm of the refrigerator
  had been disturbed.

  Anne Sexton

  Mayonnaise, Remember, Eating

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the experience of getting an audience a little bit tense and shocking them with a jump scare, and then moving on it can be cheap and easy. The harder thing is to get them unnerved and disturbed in a growing way. That starts off easy and increases all the way through the picture.

  C. Robert Cargill

  Moving, Thinking, Scare

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• Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job,and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.

  Alice S Rossi

  Jobs, Men, People

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• In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am perfectly aware of the gross ridicule to which I may subject myself by alluding to this particular; but I have lived too long, and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world's mockery.

  Lydia M. Child

  Color, Law, Long

  "An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VIII, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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• Nuclear man is the man who realizes that his creative powers hold the potential for self-destruction. He sees that in this nuclear age vast new industrial complexes enable man to produce in one hour that which he labored over for years in the past, but he also realizes that these same industries have disturbed the ecological balance and, through air and noise pollution, have contaminated his own milieu.

  Henri Nouwen

  Past, Men, Air

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  Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

  Ray Lewis

  Comfort, Comfort Zone, Zone

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• Sensuality does not understand why everyone else is so disturbed by her. As a young girl, she was often scolded for going barefoot.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Girl, Doe, Barefoot

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• If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish, faulty, or shameful specimens of humanity. They will regard us as judges from whom they wish to hide, and they will interpret everything we say as further proof of their unworthiness. If we view them as innocent, or at least merely ignorant, they will gain understanding from their experiences, and they will continue to regard us as wise partners.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Wise, Children, Stupid

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Simple, Years

  Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.214, tredition

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• According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  People, Four, Statistics

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• If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Attitude, Humble

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• The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed.

  Winston Churchill

  Loyalty, Mistake, Sleep

  'The Second World War' vol. 2 (1949) ch. 1

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• 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

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Two

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• That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Peace, War

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• The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the Aetherial Lights [stars] are to be shifted, so that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to the authority of the Holy Writ which many time: confirms the stability of the Earth (as we shall discuss more fully elsewhere).

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Science, Light

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• For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Policy Making, World

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• The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that it is quiet. Its quietness makes it seem perfect. The ripples are like the slates of a blind of a shutter through which we see imperfectly what is perfect. Though that other world can be seen only momentarily, it looks everlasting. As the ripples become more agitated, the window darkens and the other world is hidden.the surface of the river is like a living soul, which is easy to disturb, is often disturbed, but, growing calm, shows what it was, is, and will be.

  Wendell Berry

  Thinking, Other Worlds, Rivers

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• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Men, Space

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.71, Image

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• Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

  Mother Teresa (1985). “Mother Teresa: Contemplative in the Heart of the World”

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