Uneasy Quotes

147 quotes by 133 authors

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. — Josh Billings
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin. — Mel Brooks
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of. — Marina Abramovic
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we… — Jimmy Carter
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great… — George Eliot
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may crowd the headlines,… — Robert Redford
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart… — Washington Irving
The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living. — Margaret Laurence
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic,… — Joan Didion
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by… — Samuel Johnson
Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease. — Edward P. Jones
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. — Mason Cooley
From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and… — Carl Hiaasen
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He… — John Milton
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the Eastâ€™s exuberant vision of the West, the Westâ€™s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up… — M. John Harrison

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