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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. -- William Shenstone
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. -- Tom Barrett
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. -- Coco Chanel
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. -- Ambrose Bierce
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God. -- Henry Martyn
I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic. -- Victor Serge
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil. -- Lydia Sigourney
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality. -- Georges Bataille
Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence. -- Norm MacDonald
The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness. -- Marcus Aurelius
The only thing I don't like is the uneasiness of dealing with the airlines. Everything, except getting from point A to point B, I still find immensely pleasurable. -- Verne Lundquist
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards. -- Barbara Tuchman
Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made. -- Arthur Nersesian
The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life. -- Pema Chodron
You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. -- Aleister Crowley
By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do. -- William Hazlitt
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system. -- William Booth
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations. -- Pope John Paul II
True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness. -- Ludwig von Mises
Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison. -- Blaise Pascal
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. -- William Hazlitt
To the great majority of white Americans, the Negro problem has distinctly negative connotations. It suggests something difficult to settle and equally difficult to leave alone. It is embarrassing. It makes for moral uneasiness. -- Gunnar Myrdal
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer. -- Paul Engle
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions. -- Joyce Meyer
What uneasiness lies in being loved. -- Osamu Dazai
Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security. -- Selena Roberts
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Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder. -- Hildegard Hamm-Brucher
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. -- Ben Shahn
We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge -- John Locke
A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor. -- Ugo Betti
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. -- Charles Peguy
This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles. -- Haruki Murakami
The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. -- William Hazlitt
I Like this quote I dislike this quote Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. -- Tom Barrett
I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained. -- Arthur Balfour
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals. -- Joseph Addison
The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account -- James Madison
Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness. -- Catharine Beecher
Religion, declares the modern man, is consciousness of our highest social values. Nothing could be further from the truth. True religion is a profound uneasiness about our highest social values. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness. -- Caroline Kettlewell

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