Unsettle Quotes

22 quotes by 18 authors

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by… — J. G. Ballard
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card… — Steve Valentine
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love… — Zhuangzi
A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyoneâ€™s skin, a word of… — Oscar Romero
Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any… — Rudyard Kipling
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even… — Rabih Alameddine
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed by the tastes… — Helen Vendler
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Given a blank we canâ€™t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those… — Heather McHugh
Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker… — Hannah More
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and… — Phyllis McGinley
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame… — Robert M. Hutchins
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. — P.G. Wodehouse
I unsettle all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All… — P.G. Wodehouse
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... — Marguerite Yourcenar
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. — Marilynne Robinson
How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the… — Emile M. Cioran

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