But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be… — Seth Shostak 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
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
