Disturbing Things Quotes

• As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

  Edward Blake

  Judging, Done, I Can

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• Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

  Noto

  Stronger, Sound, Would Be

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• I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

  Dick Cavett

  Loss, Losing, Problem

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.77, Macmillan

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• One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question

  Thabo Mbeki

  Views, People, Facts

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• I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

  Joan Baez

  War, Jail, Trying

  Pop Chronicles interview, 1967.

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

  Kate Chopin

  Tangled, Soul, Murmuring

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.34

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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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• One of the most disturbing things I heard was that women's issues weren't "hot." Which is so ironic, because women are constantly being judged on some "hot" level. The conversation is not hot enough for them to do anything about. We have to make it hot, make them feel the fire. Until then, a lot of them aren't going to do anything.

  Patricia Arquette

  Fire, Issues, Ironic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• But I've never met a racist yet who thinks he's a racist. That's always the disturbing thing about when we begin to look at ourselves.

  Norman Jewison

  Thinking, Looks, Racist

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• No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

  Hannah Arendt

  Oysters, Matter, Taste

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• For those orderly folks who have life all neatly arranged in their heads, who do more accepting than questioning, unschooling is a disturbing thing.

  Sandra Dodd

  Order, Accepting, Questioning

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• I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Want, Mysterious

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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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• 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 can smell you, Ms. Lane," he said, even more softly. "The only blood on you is from your veins, not your womb." My head whipped to the left and I stared at him. Ok, that was one of the more disturbing things he'd ever said to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Blood, Smell, Veins

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.599, Dell

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