Uneasy Quotes - Page 5

• Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

  Harold Town

  Party, Guests, Painting

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• Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Eye, Done, Tests

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• An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

  Chinua Achebe

  Okonkwo, Dry Bones, Things Fall Apart Important

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Oct 28, 2014

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• I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ambition, People, Giving

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• Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.

  Kim Basinger

  Stills, Unforgiving

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• One of the elements of photography is, just by nature, journalistic. It's some kind of documentation. The most successful pictures to me are with an interesting looking girl. They're not being provocative. They're just presenting their drugs to you, showing you what they take. There's a good-looking girl, but here's this thing about her that's not so cool. It makes you feel a little uneasy.

  Richard Kern

  Girl, Photography, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Police, Poor

  "OSCARS Q&A: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 30, 2012.

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• I have an abiding interest in how ordinary people produce knowledge, and what it means for individuals to know the world. I thought I'd be a theoretical physicist because I love physicists' views of the world - I find general relativity and quantum theory thrilling - but I have always felt uneasy with the idea of an Ultimate Truth. One of the functions of science is to help us instrumentally; it helps us to build things like microchips and GPS satellites. But another function of science in the modern world is to help us feel "at home in the universe".

  Margaret Wertheim

  Mean, Home, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; He hath bidden me; they cannot burden Him.

  Joseph Hall

  Care, Burden, Vain

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• I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, People, Needs

  "Steve Jobs live from D8". Live blog, www.engadget.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Dream, Home

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices.

  Joan Didion

  Loss, Absence, Natural

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.89, Zola Books

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• Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  People, Waiting, Purpose

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• The sum of all that makes a just man happy
  Consists in the well choosing of his wife:
  And there, well to discharge it, does require
  Equality of years, of birth, of fortune;
  For beauty being poor, and not cried up
  By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither.
  And wealth, when there's such difference in years,
  And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Years, Differences

  Thomas Dekker, Philip Massinger (2010). “Elizabethan Drama II”, p.875, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

  James Hervey

  Wise, Wisdom, Doe

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.117

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• The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Interesting, Silence, Topics

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.3, Grove Press

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• Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

  John Cage

  Music, Strong, Ears

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• The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

  Randall Jarrell

  Dark, World, Succeed

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• I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.

  Annie Gottlieb

  Thinking, Animal, Rights

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• Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Regret, Looks, Way

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

  Samuel Johnson

  Change, Knowing, Causes

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.12

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• For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

  Paul Johnson

  Intellectual, Tests, Jew

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• All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

  William Law

  Ambition, Pride, Envy

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.153, Paulist Press

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• Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other people telling me what to do. This is probably a reaction against people telling me what to do when I was a kid. I won't join any group, espouse a cause against some other people.

  Frank Capra

  Kids, People, Groups

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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