Troubling Quotes
122 quotes by 116 authors
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
— Aphra Behn
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The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.
— Hillary Clinton
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound…
— Ambrose Bierce
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When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often…
— Byron Katie
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In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a…
— George W. Bush
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The latest developments in Iraq are deeply troubling, but as the United States considers military and diplomatic responses to the actions of the Islamic State…
— Sean Patrick Maloney
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Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more…
— Claire Smith
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It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in…
— Michael Emerson
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When something is troubling me, people know about it
— Rachael Leigh Cook
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I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.
— Seiji Maehara
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The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Love shook my heart/ Like the wind on the mountain/ Troubling the oak-trees
— Sappho
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Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In…
— Anthony Romero
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An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past
— Pierre Corneille
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I used to be a conservative, and I watch these debates and I’m wondering, I don’t think I’ve changed, but it’s a little troubling sometimes…
— Jeb Bush
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Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling,…
— Judith Butler
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A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.
— David Geffen
Who Wrote These Troubling Quotes
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