Disturbing Quotes - Page 3

• A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

  Georges Braque

  Painting

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• I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

  Edward Hopper

  Vision, Elements, Replacements

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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• That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Command Not, Evil

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• Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same.
  
  We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems.
  
  On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Kindness, Compassion

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• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Writing, People, Serial Killer

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• I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Writing, People, World

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• When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

  Marion Cotillard

  Vacation, Video, Spending Time

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• The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

  Dave Chappelle

  Language

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• Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

  David Bowie

  Challenges, Music And Life, Life Is

  FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

  Rick Baker

  Cheer, People, Kind

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• When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. Sometimes it will break. At other times, it will simply die off. Then, there are those times when for no reason, it will simply fall apart. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let it go.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Fall, Mind

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 17, 2011

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• The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.

  Wilbur Smith

  Country, Boys, Opportunity

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• Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

  Matt Taibbi

  Christian, Views, Economic

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• Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Ifs, Sensations

  Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Two, Numbers

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• I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

  Derrick Jensen

  Disrespect, Culture, Arbitrary

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.19, Seven Stories Press

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• Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

  Julius Lester

  Simple, Silence, Sound

  Julius Lester (2005). “The Autobiography of God: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

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• There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

  David Bohm

  Block, Differences, People

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• Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Genuine faith is the isolating force in our lives that creates tension wherever we go. To put it another way, faith is the unbalancing force in our lives that is the fruit of God's disturbing presence.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Thinking, World, Way

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.54, Harper Collins

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• I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Thinking, Use

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Smile, Steps, Santa

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

  Umberto Eco

  Lying, Book, Reflection

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• Syncretism can be disturbing to people. They have often been taught, "You have to have solid faith and must be sure of your religion," and so on. They fear that they might be threatened by these new developments and mergings. So you get a backlash against it.

  Ninian Smart

  People, Development, Might

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Morning, Sarcasm, Boys

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• I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Reality, People

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