Consternation Quotes

• Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Groups, Causes

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• Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

  Tim Gunn

  Frustration, Levels, Might

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

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• The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

  Sheryl Crow

  Song, Video, Looks

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• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Laughter, Taken

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

  Wendell Willkie

  Change, Views, Europe

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• Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the flavor that I grew up with. I enjoy saying some things with a Southern accent.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  People, Southern, Flavor

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• Each week we usually have one person who's never done the show before. Last year we had close to 60 who'd never done the show before. We're constantly booking new people, sometimes to the consternation of people who live here who do the show regularly.

  Scott Aukerman

  Years, People, Done

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not consent to it, while my father's doctor could not help my father to die when my farther asked for it? My consternation brought me to moral philosophy and a life-long search for an answer to the question when and why we should, and when we shouldn't, kill.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Father, Philosophy, Doctors

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.

  Tim Gunn

  Regret, Stress, Advice

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• Keep your eye on the end of the course. Victory is secured already. Do not let the hurdles cause thee consternation. Stay in the running. Verily, I am at thy side. According to each day shall thy strength be; and the race is not to the swift, but the obedient shall receive the prize.

  Frances J Roberts

  Running, Eye, Race

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

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• Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

  Edward Young

  Men, Good Man, Guilt

  Edward Young (1813). “The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park”

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• Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.

  Gottlob Frege

  Loss, Discovery, Serious

  "From Frege to Godel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931". Book edited by J. van Heijenoort, "Letter to Bertrand Russel" (1902), 1967.

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• One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

  Djuna Barnes

  Pain, Eye, Men

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

  Orson Scott Card

  Girl, Wise, Powerful

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.484, Macmillan

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• My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval." I stared at him. "You made a *joke*." "I have heard this kind of thing may happen.

  Robin McKinley

  Morning, Vampire, Doe

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• It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

  Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay

  Usa, Causes, Democrat

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• Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

  John McCain

  Europe, United States, Causes

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lots of consternation and nervousness and anger. Famously, piñata makers started making piñatas of Donald Trump, even before he won the Republican nomination. There was this sense that, here's a person who's rising in the polls because he's insulting us, because he's created this scapegoated image of us as the people responsible for the decline of the United States.

  Hector Tobar

  Long, People, Community

  Source: www.slate.com

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• No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.

  Lionel Tiger

  Mean, Men, Emotional

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• I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.

  Ed Helms

  Editors, Understanding, Cameras

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through Mexico. I mean, the danger that they're put in, the sexual assaults that are occurring - I mean, all of this is a great consternation, I think, for any of us. But when they come here and then they're dumped on our cities and our counties and our state is expected to pick up the costs, there's a point in time where you say, 'Quit giving these individuals incentives to come up and then be resettled in the United States'. That's the real issue for me.

  Rick Perry

  Real, Mean, Kids

  "Perry sets the record straight on illegal immigrant kids: The President of the United States must deal with this". www.foxnews.com. May 08, 2012.

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