Uneasy Quotes

147 Uneasy quotes by 132 unique authors

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
Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I… — Pete Townshend
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see. — Andrew Jackson
Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to… — Martin Luther
Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system… — Arthur Balfour
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy. — Miguel de Cervantes

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