Disturbs Quotes
84 quotes by 79 authors
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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.
— Judith Orloff
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
— Georges Braque
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Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
— John Cage
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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which…
— Leo Tolstoy
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For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
— William Cowper
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My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they…
— Louise Bourgeois
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A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but…
— Louise Bourgeois
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the…
— M. King Hubbert
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For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.
— Hafez
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What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
— Epictetus
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What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things
— Epictetus
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
— Loren Eiseley
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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs…
— Adolf Loos
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We think we can – as normal people generally do – put up with a certain amount of unanalyzed unconscious material as long as it…
— Roberto Assagioli
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Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve…
— George Elliott Clarke
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Because God is a God of mercy and His mercy endures forever, you can trust that he will have mercy on you (See: 1 Chronicles…
— Stormie Omartian
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Overcoming complacency is crucial at the start of any change process, and it often requires a little bit of surprise, something that grabs attention at…
— John P. Kotter
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