Unsettled Quotes
50 quotes by 49 authors
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Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending…
— Ugo Betti
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If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step…
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
— Edward Lear
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The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray…
— Eric Maisel
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The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in…
— Alison Moyet
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He…
— Walter Lippmann
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)
— Pema Chodron
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It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it
— Henry Miller
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Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my…
— Craig Silvey
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It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like…
— Cassandra Clare
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Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for gently…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted…
— Lucy Christopher
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Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
— Isaac Asimov
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Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take their place. A…
— Margaret H'Doubler
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Something about John Cleese was always very unsettled, I felt. There was always something else he wanted to do. He seemed constantly driven by this…
— Michael Palin
Who Wrote These Unsettled Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 50 Unsettled Quotes, led by these top contributors: