Uneasy Quotes

• I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Fame

• The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

  

  Will Self
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Curious

• People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

  

  Thomas More
  • Circumstances
  • Confusion
  • Desperate

• I have a feeling that makes me very uneasy that the Department of Homeland Security is dysfunctional

  

  Chris Shays
  • Uneasy
  • Dysfunctional
  • Department Of Homeland Security

• That's my talent, I make people feel uneasy.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Talent
  • Uneasy

• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Courage
  • Leadership
  • Lying

• Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Lovers
  • Industrious
  • Uneasy

• The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Sleep
  • Army

• Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Life
  • Mystery
  • Baffled

• 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
  • Ridiculous
  • Pencils
  • Closing

• Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

  

  Michael Chabon
  • Moments
  • Written
  • Composition

• The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies and nebulae, and thinking they were not as wide as the distances between people. In the study Claudia sensed them, in the sparks and crackles on the screen. In the prison, Attia dreamt of them, She sat curled on the hard chair, Rix repacking his hidden pockets obsessively with coins and glass discs and hidden handkerchiefs. A single spark flickered deep in the coin Keiro spun and caught, spun and caught.

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Study
  • Distance
  • Impossible

• You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • People
  • Lying
  • Track

• I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Mind

• I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • People
  • Feels
  • Aspect