Top 1200 Disturbing Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.

I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth; no one has yet dis-invented the business cycle, and probably no one will; and what Schumpeter famously called the 'gales of creative destruction' still roar mightily from time to time. To lament these things is ultimately to lament the bracing blast of freedom itself.

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.

It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

If someone was walking round in a T-shirt with Sarah Lancashire on it, I'd find that very disturbing.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it's disturbing.

The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.

Grown people know that they do not always know the why of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Hence the irritation they show when children keep on demanding to know if a thing is so and how the grown folks got the proof of it. It is so troublesome because it is disturbing to the pigeonhole way of life.

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

I loved 'Breaking Bonaduce.' I was amazed it made it on TV. It was so raw, so disturbing.

There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

Were our spirits hardy we would be able to meet the most disturbing situation with peace and rest.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

FDR's job results were, to put it politely, disturbing.

How many people could embrace such disturbing imagery?

I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth about their subjective feelings about photography and mostly I think it's disturbing. I think they're fooling themselves very often. They're just talking, they're not saying anything.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to deeper maturity and a deeper discourse. May it be so.

What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.

If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

There's something profoundly disturbing about watching an old guy eat a sandwich.

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.

It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit.

In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

Debt collection is a market with real, persistent, and disturbing problems.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

We don't like it when the president doesn't even say 'Islamic terror.' It's very disturbing.

He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally.

We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of their lungs about what we liked and what we didn't like. It was disturbing to the status quo. It really shook things up. And those in power didn't know what to make of us, but they knew that we had to be silenced, stopped in any way from expressing our outrage.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories were about all the pleasant things in life. Since we know our troubles are always coming we want to see in our fiction examples of how others have dealt with them.

Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?

One of the most disturbing things I heard was that women's issues weren't "hot." Which is so ironic, because women are constantly being judged on some "hot" level. The conversation is not hot enough for them to do anything about. We have to make it hot, make them feel the fire. Until then, a lot of them aren't going to do anything.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

There's one disturbing notion throughout India that light skin is more attractive than dark.