Organized Christianity that fails
Organized Christianity that fails to make a disturbance is dead. G. Campbell Morgan
Disturbance
The air is annoyingly
The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke … Read more
The artist dreams of
The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he’d intended. Eric Maisel
The pleasant life is
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of a luxurious table. On the contrary, it is produced by sober reasoning which examines the motives for every choice and avoidance, driving away beliefs which are the source of mental disturbances. … Read more
It is odd enough
It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood. Elizabeth Gaskell
…though one can be
…though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Elizabeth Bowen
This is a strange,
This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance! Eleanor Roosevelt
Only when a disputed
Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code. Edward Jenks
[A] science fiction story
[A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced. Edmund Crispin
While I was girl
While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really…motivated by psychological disturbance. Edie Sedgwick