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Quotes About Uneasy

Awkward is a state of being.
~ Alexandra Petri
I'm the most awkward man alive.
~ Greg Mottola
I'm a bit awkward.
~ Karla Crome
But I feel a sense of peace when I'm working. Happiness, almost. It's when I'm not working I feel uneasy.
~ Ã…sa Larsson
When I walked outside of my room for the first time since being placed into self-isolation for breaking the Covid-19 protocols, I heard the cameras clicking with every single step I took. The whole spectacle made me feel uneasy.
~ Jofra Archer
The double row of berths yawned black, like graves tenanted by uneasy corpses.
~ Joseph Conrad
He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him, and no one ever said anything.
~ Joseph Heller
In her behavior Mrs. S——was youthful and loud-talking which made us uneasy, for children are not comfortable when adults behave as if they are not adults. Often it seemed that Mrs. S——was winking at us as if there was some joke between her and us, unexplained.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
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
It was to a moribund horse, and Mr. Sidlow, describing the treatment to date, announced that he had been pushing raw onions up the horse's rectum; he couldn't understand why it was so uneasy on its legs. Siegfried had pointed out that if he were to insert a raw onion in Mr. Sidlow's rectum, he, Mr. Sidlow, would undoubtedly be uneasy on his legs.
~ James Herriot
I'm surprisingly squeamish.
~ Samin Nosrat
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
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
In the spring of 1844, a good many white people in Manchester County remained uneasy about news from other places about slave "restlessness" that had gone on a few years before. In the North, people called it slave uprisings, but in much of Virginia the word uprisings had an abolitionist undertone and was felt to be too strong for what many slaveowners preferred to characterize as "a family squabble," instigated by unknowns not part of the family.
~ Edward P. Jones
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
~ Alexander Pope
I not only felt uneasy about the way the news media portrayed us in Vietnam, I felt unsure that our government and our own people supported us.
~ Richard R. Burns
Power makes good people uneasy rather than joyful or boastful. That's why good people so rarely rise to power.
~ Rick Riordan
Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.
~ Kate Bernheimer
Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin.
~ Kelly Link
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
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, Middlemarch
That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.
~ Joan Fontaine
The fact is, and there's no denying it, realism... is supposed to make one uneasy.
~ Robert D. Kaplan
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