Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost… — Kenny Rogers 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
Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving. — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“An uneasy feeling came over me when I thought about saying goodbye to him today. I didn’t know what this was, but… — Jamie Schlosser Copy Share Image
I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal… — Annie Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
“In spite of the momentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Aware of her uneasy gaze straying to his rampant arousal, Sebastian shot her a scornful glance. “Pay it no mind,” he said,… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“When I read these words I saw at once a connection to my own work. Anything good that I have written has,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed,… — Henry Thomas Buckle 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
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
If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Gradually, the night stumbled as if stunned and wandering aimlessly into an overcast day -- limped through the wilderland of transition as… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
“Dream Song 55" Peter's not friendly. He gives me sideways looks. The architecture is far from reassuring. I feel uneasy. A pity,—the… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“As the bartender struck a match to light her cigarette, she put her hand on his wrist to steady it. Travis saw… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“This way to the widge. Edwin started. Heavens! Up till now, she realized, she had carefully avoided forming in her mind any… — Judith Ivory Copy Share Image
“Why were his eyes so uneasy? Why was he looking at the table and the floor, but never into her face? It… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“I began to feel slightly uneasy. You know I am not used to such ceremonies, and there was something ominous in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Sorry,’ he said with a cautious dip of the head. The stranger’s eyes flicked down to the badge pinned on his vest,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
