Best Disturbance Words
139 Disturbance quotes by 124 unique authors
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere,…
— Freeman Dyson
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I have detected disturbances in the wash.' 'The wash?' 'The space-time wash.' 'Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we…
— Douglas Adams
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The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
— Roland Barthes
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The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than…
— Herbert Marcuse
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The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere,…
— Wilhelm Reich
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When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total…
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of…
— Alan Lightman
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She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear,…
— Anais Nin
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As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A…
— Stephen Hawking
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When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold,…
— Anthony Powell
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The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than…
— Flora Rheta Schreiber
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When I haven't been kissed in a long time, I create civil disturbances, then insult the cops who show up, till one of them grabs…
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.
— Sextus Empiricus
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Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd…
— Albert Ellis
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The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath…
— Emile Durkheim
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For the jihadists, Muslim women who embrace Western mores, and wear tight jeans or mini skirts, are hated symbols of corruption that need to be…
— Mustafa Akyol
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be…
— Barry McGee
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My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow…
— John Cleveland
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I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
— Andrew Taylor Still
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If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition…
— Sigmund Freud
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Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent…
— Bill Bryson
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