“[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge — John Locke Copy Share Image
The sad part is that all we're trying to do is not feel that underlying uneasiness. The sadder part is that we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit… — James Madison Copy Share Image
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
