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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed. -- Barton Gellman
Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert. -- Criss Jami
We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America") -- Wendell Berry
The more unsettling the more I feel at home. -- Kat Dennings
You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country. -- Sara Paretsky
It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa. -- John Oliver
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? -- Tom Hayden
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. -- Marlon Brando
It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans. -- Mikko Hypponen
To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it. -- Linda Blair
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. -- Edith Wharton
Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person. -- Stacy Schiff
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake. -- Dana Spiotta
'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens? -- William Shatner
The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though. -- Kit Harington
In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?' -- Tom Stoppard
Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable. -- Matt Berninger
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them. -- Amity Shlaes
If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences I've had, that need to be transformed. -- Lilith Saintcrow
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch. -- Bill Bryson
There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peaceful. It's not peaceful. It's the most personal thing you can do, is die, and you feel almost like you're invading someone's most personal moment by being there. -- George Clooney
President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration should substitute for actual competence. -- Ben Shapiro
What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' -- David R. Brower
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure. -- Greil Marcus
You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me. -- Edward Norton
For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked. -- Regina Brett
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling. -- Walter Goodman
There's something unsettling about being continually sold something. -- Stanley Donwood
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them. -- Nikki Gemmell
A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary. -- Lisa Schwarzbaum
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. -- Anthony Giddens
You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling. -- Patrice Leconte
Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long. -- Karl Albrecht
Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be. -- Slade Combs
It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it. -- Mike May
The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling. -- Tom Hiddleston
Chaos is hateful. That indeterminate nature of war brings a really unsettling atmosphere to life. -- Herbert
Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'. -- Michael Sandel
It's extremely disturbing and unsettling that Sony has taken digital rights management to this level of deceit. -- Mark Russinovich
The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential -- Margaret Way
It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares. -- Patricia Briggs
It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters. -- Sarah Dessen
Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. -- Sylvia Plath
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The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. -- John Hickenlooper
Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes. -- Roosh V
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies. -- Stephen King
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side. -- Robert Greene
The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies." -- Stephen King
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory. -- Patricia Hampl
ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn't sure when or where it was going to end. -- Ishmael Beah
When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters. -- Don Kardong
Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom. -- Sergio De La Pava
I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling. -- Stephen King
I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way. -- Bear McCreary
Ethan Allen was convinced that every planet out there has its own intelligent extraterrestrials. And this, as you can imagine, is a radical, inspiring, but very unsettling, idea. -- Matthew Stewart
House of Leaves is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but its also about recovering from fear. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling. -- Bryan Fuller
House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling. -- Gotz Aly
It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe... -- Laurie R. King
Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed. -- Khaled Hosseini
I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking. -- Judy Dater
Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words. -- Thomas Moore
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things. -- Nick Harkaway
You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual. -- John Lithgow
Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced. -- Roger Williams
. . . You seem upset, Charlie. Is something wrong? Charlie: No, no, Iâ??m okay, I just had to take directions from a mute beaver in a fez to get here, itâ??s unsettling. -- Christopher Moore
As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us. -- Gareth Ellis
If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity. -- Martha Beck
There's no question that Donald Trump has said things that are very unsettling. I mean, whether it's comparing Mexicans to rapists, demonizing Muslim Americans, excoriating the federal judge who was handling the case. -- Donna Brazile
Magnus did not like to go near the Hotel Dumont if he could help it. It was decrepit and unsettling, it held bad memories, and it also occasionally held his evil former lady love. -- Cassandra Clare
The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open. -- Susan Hill

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