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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. -- William Shakespeare
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best. -- Jessica Savitch
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. -- Josh Billings
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. -- Germaine Greer
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me. -- Anatole France
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. -- Jonathan Swift
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. -- George Eliot
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. -- Samuel Johnson
In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public. -- Andrei Sakharov
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown. -- Howard E. Koch
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. -- Noel Coward
If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream. -- J. G. Ballard
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier? -- John Steinbeck
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion. -- Jock Sturges
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence -- Bertrand Russell
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
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. -- Joan Didion
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. -- Nong Duc Manh
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self. -- George Eliot
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent. -- Joan Didion
I do not believe that I'm sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I'm demanding returns for my investments. I chose to walk on this journey, because I solely believed in it and wholeheartedly decided to do so, and I'm willing and able to pay for the consequences... -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive. -- Arianna Huffington
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. -- Robert Gottlieb
When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin. -- Mel Brooks
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of. -- Marina Abramovic
We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us? -- David Foster Wallace
We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means. -- Charles Spurgeon
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others. -- Amy Grant
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate. -- Noah Feldman
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
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance. -- Clark Kerr
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. -- Orville Wright
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly. -- Julia Child
There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated. -- Jennifer Ehle
As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me. -- Jamie Foxx
Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling. -- Andy Roddick
Beauty and fear make uneasy companions -- Cornelia Funke
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy. -- Miguel de Cervantes
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth. -- Mark Twain
My training makes me uneasy with a happy mystery. -- Jonathan Rottenberg
What is it about silence that makes people uneasy? -- Morrie Schwartz
You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see. -- Andrew Jackson
We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The person that I like is someone that I am uneasy about... -- Yukiru Sugisaki
an uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death -- Suman Pokhrel
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. -- Jonathan Swift
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. -- Paul Haggis
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb -- Chinua Achebe
Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. -- Mason Cooley
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. -- Alexander Pope
Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving. -- Kim Basinger
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia. -- Abraham Lincoln
The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place. -- Samuel Johnson
In the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices. -- Joan Didion
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. -- Randall Jarrell
Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease. -- Edward P. Jones
The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living. -- Margaret Laurence
I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention. -- Sade Adu
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. -- Joan Didion
We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love. -- Edward Dahlberg
People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence. -- J. L. Carr
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. -- Franz Kafka
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history. -- Eleanor Antin
Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented. -- A. E. Hotchner
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. -- Robert Breault
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy. -- Paul Johnson
Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos. -- George Eliot
Whenever there's a nude scene, it's always uneasy. You're not in the comfort of your own home with your significant other. -- Laura Prepon
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. -- Antony Beevor
You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence. -- Spider Robinson
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
A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit. -- David Sedaris
Well, I guess my unease with that is... I'm always a little uneasy with that phrase - smooth jazz, as opposed to what? -- David Sanborn
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
...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion. -- Benjamin Franklin
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. -- Samuel Johnson
Listening to liberals invoke the sanctity of "science" to promote their crackpot ideas creates the same uneasy feeling as listening to Bill Clinton cite Scripture. -- Ann Coulter
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
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most. -- Wendell Phillips
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence. -- Brand Blanshard
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
I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long. -- Brenda Perlin
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
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
The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it. -- Martin Luther
I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting. -- Richard Branson
Pakistan could be uneasy on the position of Indian military. But both the countries should take a bold decision, breaking from their past, to transform their relationship. -- Simon Cameron
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love. -- George Eliot
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw. -- Jonathan Swift
I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment. -- Sonia Johnson
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
Adrian's new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we'd just established in Palm Springs was about to shatter. Dimitri Belikov had arrived. -- Richelle Mead
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like. -- Edward Gorey
Yet when one suspects that a man knows something about life that one hasn't heard before one is uneasy until one has found out what he has to say. -- Frederick Pollock
Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince. -- Mark Haddon
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind. -- John Tillotson
Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided. -- Luc de Clapiers
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
With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy. -- Carrie Brownstein
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
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
and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all. -- Jaclyn Moriarty
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. -- John Woolman
Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State). -- Noam Chomsky
The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state. -- Louis O. Kelso
To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state. -- Marcel Proust
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us. -- Samuel Johnson
On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture. -- Christopher Eccleston
Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously. -- Emily Giffin
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle. -- John Milton
A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already. -- David Crockett
Our microeconomic indicators are stable and it gives me reason to believe that we will calmly and steadily pass this uneasy period in our economy, which has already no doubt adapted to the current situation. -- Vladimir Putin
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands. -- Nong Duc Manh

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