Jarring Quotes
27 Jarring quotes by 25 unique authors
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No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform…
— Alan Bullock
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The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing…
— Naomi Klein
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A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which…
— Tim Cahill
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The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in…
— Carter Burwell
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Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion.
— Harold Bridgwood Walker
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His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the…
— Irving Stone
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When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring.
— Poppy Montgomery
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who…
— Famke Janssen
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.
— Omar Khayyam
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The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is just as important,…
— Jonathan Gottschall
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Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy…
— John Dryden
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From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The…
— John Dryden
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My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
— Unknown Author
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Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle…
— Steven Spielberg
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There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.
— Christopher Walken
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until…
— Winston Churchill
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Those who were so long imprisoned in ice and darkness seem to find the sunlight jarring, painful. The longer I walk around with this grief…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't…
— Sidney Poitier
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In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the…
— Suzanne Collins
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As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.”…
— Tina Fey
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I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and…
— Kim Cattrall
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You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you…
— Robert Gottlieb
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When neighbours interact with each other, it is only natural that sometimes they will run into problems of some kind or another. As long as…
— Li Keqiang
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The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.
— Jonathan Katz
Who Wrote These Jarring Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 Jarring Quotes as follows: