Troubling Quotes - page 3

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher. (Elaine Pagels)
I think the arc of history is long, and it bends toward justice. And I think that's what the 'Star Wars' message is. You know, the dark side is in the human heart. And chaos is very troubling for an individual or for a culture, which can lead you to authoritarian leaders. But the arc of history is on the right side. I believe that. View quote
Cass Sunstein
Iran's continued drive to develop nuclear capabilities, including troubling enrichment activities and past work on weaponization documented by the IAEA, and its continued support to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and other terrorist organizations make clear that the regime in Tehran is a very grave threat to all of us. View quote
Leon Panetta
I think I can understand El Serruchito's dismay. Imagine troubling yourself to attend some infant's funeral, only to find dashed your modest poetic hopes. View quote
David Woodard
Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation. View quote
Adam Schiff
Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling. View quote
Doris Kearns Goodwin
There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they're safe. But if you look at Walt Disney's original films, at the time and in the context, they weren't safe. They were really dark and troubling. View quote
Henry Selick
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. View quote
Harold Prince
Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people. View quote
Irving Kirsch
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing. View quote
Israel Horovitz
It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies. (Jeffrey Kluger)
As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care. View quote
John Barrasso
Of all the fictions we heard last week in Tampa, the one I find most troubling is this: If we all just go our own way, our nation will be stronger for it. Because if we sever the threads that connect us, the only people who will go far are those who are already ahead. View quote
Julian Castro
To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences. View quote
Jamais Cascio
If Senator Kerry understands the nature of this threat and the need to take on terror, then he should immediately repudiate these troubling comments, and stop all efforts on behalf of his surrogates to blame America for these attacks. View quote
Marc Racicot
It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both. View quote
Michael Emerson
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me. View quote
Patty Griffin
When something is troubling me, people know about it. View quote
Rachael Leigh
I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go. View quote
Shiv Khera
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. View quote
Samuel E. Morison
Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling. (Yukiya Amano)
Your record raises troubling questions about whether you appreciate the checks and balances in our Constitution -- the careful efforts of our Founding Fathers to protect us from a government or a president determined to seize too much power over our lives. View quote
Samuel Alito
We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. View quote
Jack Valenti
It's mournful and troubling in a way that goes beyond ordinary movie manipulation. It burns clean. View quote
Stephanie Zacharek
REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling. View quote
Ambrose Bierce