What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, whom, snoring, she disturbs.
Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.
Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.
Anything that seriously disturbs human society is absolutely not allowed to exist.
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
[The] whirlwind fife-and-drum of the storm bends the salt marsh grass, disturbs stars in the sky and the star on the steeple; it is a privilege to see so much confusion.
If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.
The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.
Everything disturbs an absent lover.
Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.
Co-mingling really disturbs a lot of the purists, who want to see the historical and cultural divides instead of the meshing.
If you separate from. . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future. . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.
