Disturbed Quotes - Page 14

• I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!

  Pope Francis

  People, Politician, Lord

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

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• Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Purple, Blue, Vibrations

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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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• 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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• The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

  Michael Ramsey

  Comforting, Church, Duty

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• My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Teacher

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• He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.

  David Guterson

  People, Way, Veteran

  David Guterson (2009). “Snow Falling on Cedars”, p.25, A&C Black

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• Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Attitude, Humor

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• Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Book, Irritation, People

  "A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Told for the First Time".

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• Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Book, Losing, Difficult

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.56, Diversion Books

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• When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake,
  I disturbed its surface with countless circles.
  But when I reached the depths,
  I became very still.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lakes, Circles, Depth

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• The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Ice, Breathing, Surfing

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.59, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Eye, Giving, Soul

  "The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov (Book One, Chapter "Nikanor Ivanovich's Dream"), 1967.

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• There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is well. Subconsciously, we tend to give the preference to 'social peace,' though it be only apparent, because our lives and possessions seem then secure. Actually, human beings acquiesce too easily in evil conditions; they rebel far too little and too seldom. There is nothing noble about acquiescence in a cramped life or mere submission to superior force.

  A. J. Muste

  Thinking, Evil, Giving

  "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.

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• We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Calamity

  John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education”

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• If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Learning, Self

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.292, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Hate, Mistake

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• The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

  Tennessee Williams

  Artist, Creative, Age

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

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• I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Real, Understanding

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• I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed at my comrades' failure to rise above narrow caste interests which are alien to the interests of society at large. Yes, the theatre can play an enormous part in the transformation of the whole of existence.

  Vsevolod Meyerhold

  Destiny, Play, Theatre

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• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Mind, Dawn

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Attitude, Anger

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• When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.

  Ajahn Chah

  Thinking, Meditation, Suffering

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• I saw a man pursuing the horizon

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Horizon, Saws

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.53, Courier Dover Publications

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• The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Hate, Patriotism

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