An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
“I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“habitual irritable and uneasy aversion for any stranger who approached or attempted to approach him.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented. — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's love - that's infatuation. — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51) — Pema Chodron 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
“I recognized the tokens of the time, because I had lived through just such another uneasy season, when every day was tainted… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The deeper the difficulty in fulfilling a dream, the brighter the outcome of its fulfillment and the sweeter the celebration thereof. Persist… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
“Rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin 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
“Ted had the uneasy sense that the child was spinning them out as a way of filling the time, distracting them both… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Zia turned toward us, her expression grim. “I will show you to your quarters. In the morning, your testing begins. We will… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't… — Frank Capra 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
“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
“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
“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
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
