Unrest Quotes
88 quotes by 82 authors
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious…
— Felix Adler
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new…
— Carson McCullers
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I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one…
— Kent McCord
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To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking…
— Dalai Lama
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
— Karl A. Menninger
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The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites…
— William O. Douglas
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is…
— Milton Friedman
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine…
— Sterling Hayden
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
— Le Corbusier
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Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another…
— Sigmund Freud
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All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Unrest is the mark of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This…
— Bob Proctor
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We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest…
— Wayne LaPierre
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It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but…
— Flora Thompson
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Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the…
— William J. Clinton
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The price of oil is rising because of all the unrest in the Middle East. And the unrest in Wisconsin is causing the price of…
— Jay Leno
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No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that keeps…
— Martha Graham
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It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period…
— Bille August
Who Wrote These Unrest Quotes
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