Perturbing Quotes

#1. Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

Larry Wall

#2. [ ... ] at any rate there is nothing in the world more dreary, damping, and obscurely perturbing than to come out of a cinema in the afternoon to a noisy world.

Patrick Hamilton

#3. It should be noted that my mother has a long history of being disturbingly unperturbed by what normal people deem perturbing. Certain things simply don't strike her as worthy of a sit-down.

Sloane Crosley

#4. Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

Siegfried Lenz

#5. To the non-Swiss ear it sounds as if the speaker is construing made-up words from the oddest rhythms and the queerest clipped consonants and the most perturbing arrangement of gaping, rangy vowels.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#6. Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#7. we grow up when we have to, not when we're ready.

Isabel Curtis

#8. Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

John Owen

#9. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

Abraham Maslow

#10. It is religion which has made modern Europe what she is by its stability amid the ruin of nations, by adapting itself to circumstances, to times, and places, without ever abating an iota of its unshaken principles.

Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

#11. If you care about animals, there is one and only one choice: go vegan. Can you choose not to be vegan? Sure. You can choose not to care.

Gary L. Francione

#12. I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Alan Alda

#13. It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.

Sean Bean

#14. A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast.

George Friedman

#15. If you have an offense against me, do you know you can't repent of my sin? You can only plead your own personal pardon at the throne of God.

Johnny Hunt

#16. Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

Will Rogers

#17. It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

Miles Davis

#18. Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

Oscar Wilde

#19. Damn. That face is a definite work of art. You need to make sure you frame it between your legs every chance you get.

K. Bromberg

#20. It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country ...

Alan Lightman

#21. Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.

Dan Wells