Disturbing Quotes - Page 9

• I am aware of what you're talking about with FEMA camps. What is particularly disturbing about that is they are going to be on former military bases. A ton of people have expressed their concerns that what they're building are prison camps.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Military, Talking

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• Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Fun, Business, Mean

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• Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both ... at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Nature, Science, Men

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• I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Religious, Medicine, Political

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• Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Dirt, Made

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (more than 150 Works)”, p.1722, e-artnow

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• There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing.

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, Kids, Political

  "Site of Norway Massacre ‘Sounds like the Hitler Youth’". Interview with Glen Levy, newsfeed.time.com. July 26, 2011.

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• It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

  James Dobson

  Powerful, Moving, Film

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• Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.

  Rick Bragg

  Men, People, Hatred

  Rick Bragg (2010). “Ava's Man”, p.35, Vintage

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• Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being gay and Christian across denominations is at once timely, smart, poignant, disturbing, inspiring, and maddening. It's essential reading for anyone who cares about the rights of the LGBTQ community to be treated as equal citizens at every level, including the religious-which means it should be essential reading for everybody.

  Donna Freitas

  Christian, Religious, Attitude

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• What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.

  Henri

  Art, Men, Brain

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• We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Interesting, Missing

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.16, Penguin

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• Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday.

  Italo Calvino

  Yesterday, Self, House

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• Colour is uncontainable. It effortlessly reveals the limits of language and evades our best attempts to impose a rational order on it To work with colour is to become acutely aware of the insufficiency of language and theory – which is both disturbing and pleasurable.

  David Batchelor

  Order, Limits, Language

  Gary Hume, Adrian Searle, David Batchelor, British Council (1999). “Gary Hume: British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale, 13 June-7 Novermer 1999”

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• I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

  Bianca Jagger

  Media, Want, Forget

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• The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.

  David Duke

  Block, Media, Ku Klux Klan

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• I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth about their subjective feelings about photography and mostly I think it's disturbing. I think they're fooling themselves very often. They're just talking, they're not saying anything.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Thinking, Talking

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• The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

  James Madison

  Passion, Interesting, Decision

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.248, Coventry House Publishing

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• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  Jack Dee

  Swimming, Feet, Bricks

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• You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

  James Earl Jones

  Ideas, Singing, Church

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• What thoughts are so important that it is worth holding on to them even when they make you miserable? Why are you holding on? You are in charge of your thoughts and feelings. If you are willing to search for the reason that you can't let go of disturbing thoughts, you can learn about yourself and restore your own peace of mind.

  Bernie Siegel

  Letting Go, Feelings, Mind

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• I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

  John Tuzo Wilson

  Science, Scientist, Enjoy

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• The administration has a disturbing pattern of behavior when it comes to budgeting not only for the ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan but also for military requirements not directly related to these conflicts.

  Russ Feingold

  Military, Iraq, Administration

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• It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

  Helen Garner

  Echoes, Age, Looks

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• We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

  Tom Freston

  Ideas, World, Levels

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• It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.

  Rene Dubos

  Health, Civilization, Facts

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