Craving Quote by Jennifer Egan

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

— Jennifer Egan

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another thing……

— Henry David Thoreau

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed…

— Louise Wilson

“Unease squirmed in my gut like a pile of worms in an occupied coffin.”

— A.J. Rose

“Guests arrived carrying more than luggage. They brought frustration, uncertainty, exhaustion.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure…

— Eckhart Tolle

“For myself the delay may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit…

— George Washington

Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of…

— George Packer

That kind of unease, that melancholy, is of course partly my interpretation, but partly, I think, it's something that's really there [in America] as…

— Peter van Agtmael

“Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning,…

— Rick Bass

You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them.

— Jean-Paul Sartre