Uneasy Quotes

147 quotes by 133 authors

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. — Paul Davies
Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in… — Loren Eiseley
It is not only visitors to the zoo who are fascinated but uneasy in the presence of chimpanzees; the same is true of scientists. The… — Frans de Waal
The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There… — Akif Pirincci
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for… — Clark Kerr
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. — Jock Sturges
You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence. — Spider Robinson
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have… — Samuel Johnson
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is… — Charles Sanders Peirce
We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love. — Edward Dahlberg
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. — Abraham Lincoln
I do not believe that I'm sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds… — Aung San Suu Kyi
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor
On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the… — Joshua Slocum
Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in… — Andy Roddick
Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel… — Dalai Lama
For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very… — Athol Fugard
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are… — Arianna Huffington
Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform… — Simon Cameron

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