Unsettle Quotes
22 quotes by 18 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin, a word of…
— Oscar Romero
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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
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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
— Félix J. Palma
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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
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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
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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
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Given a blank we can’t help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those…
— Heather McHugh
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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
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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
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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
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I unsettle all things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul...
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Unsettle Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 22 Unsettle Quotes as follows: