Troubling Quotes

122 Troubling quotes by 115 unique authors

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At… — Skeet Ulrich
The problem with much of the debate over this issue is that we confuse two separate matters: immigration policy (how many people we admit) and… — Tom Tancredo
That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If… — Rachel Hartman
Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself. — Joanne Harris
I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
repose, v.i. To cease from troubling. — Ambrose Bierce
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense… — Loren Eiseley
We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's… — Pierre Pettigrew
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers. — Jared Bernstein
He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher. — Elaine Pagels
For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just… — Lyndon B. Johnson
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences. — Jamais Cascio
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put… — George William Russell
What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. — Barney Frank
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled… — Jeffrey Kluger
A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly… — Charles Kuralt
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. — D. H. Lawrence
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence… — Henri Matisse
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. — Harold Prince
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. — Gary Ross
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. — Francis Thompson
What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of… — Douglas Adams
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for… — John Updike
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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