#disturb

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 him. Thus he loves the house and hates art. ↗

— Adolf Loos

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The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position. ↗

— Josh McDowell

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The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#balancing #cling #competing #disturbed #economy

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

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I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #between #disturbance #done #energy

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again. ↗

— Robert Musil

#attention #days #developed #disturbed #emotionally

Nature is under control but not disturbed. ↗

— Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands

#disturbed #nature #under

That made me feel very disturbed, because it never seemed to be about how much hard work was involved. Ever. It was about... 'hazel eyes'. It does help if you can brush that stuff off. ↗

— Julia Ormond

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The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#back #bang #behave #being #come