Uneasy Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Confused, Balance, Sake

  Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• La compasión no es natural en el hombre. Los niños siempre son crueles. Los salvajes siempre son crueles. La piedad se adquiere y mejora con el cultivo de la razón. Podemos tener sensaciones desagradables al ver a una criatura en apuros, sin compasión; porque no tenemos compasión a menos que deseemos aliviarla.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Men, Compassion

  "Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales".

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• Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

  M. John Harrison

  Sueño, Ciudades, París

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• Su lanza, a la altura de la cual el pino más alto, que en las colinas noruegas parece ser el mástil de algún gran almirante, no es más que una vara, con la que camina para sostener sus inquietos pasos sobre la marga ardiente.

  John Milton

  Apoyo, Pasos, Quema

  Paraíso Perdido' (1667) bk. 1, l. 292

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• 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

  País, Escribir, Pensar

  Fuente: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Company, Persons

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• So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago in this world, seven barons - these men and women - rose up and formed the new society. It's a feudal world, a part feudal barons and part warlord and part mob boss and they each control a huge resource so that there's an uneasy alliance, but they all need each other.

  Alfred Gough

  Dark, Men, Years

  Fuente: www.indiewire.com

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• Toda la vida de Cristo fue una continua Pasión; otros mueren mártires, pero Cristo nació mártir. Encontró un Gólgota incluso en Belén, donde nació; porque para su ternura entonces las pajas eran casi tan afiladas como las espinas después, y el pesebre tan intranquilo al principio como su cruz al final. Su nacimiento y su muerte no fueron sino un acto continuo, y su Navidad y su Viernes Santo no son sino la tarde y la mañana de un mismo día. Y así como su nacimiento es su muerte, toda acción y todo pasaje que nos manifiesta a Cristo es su nacimiento, pues Epifanía es manifestación.

  John Donne

  Viernes, Mañana, Pasión

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• Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.

  Charles Stross

  Mistake, Block, Sweat

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. 2 th Of July de 2012.

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• Me sentía incómodo por tomar las decisiones rápidas de siempre y me preguntaba si cada decisión debía ratificarse formalmente y constar en acta en una reunión del consejo.

  Richard Branson

  Decisión, Juntas, Hecho

  Richard Branson (1999). "Perder mi virginidad: cómo he sobrevivido, me he divertido y he hecho una fortuna haciendo negocios a mi manera", Crown Business

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• A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Party, Goal, Political

  Robert O. Paxton (2011). “The Anatomy of Fascism”, p.372, Penguin UK

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• Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Looks, Half, World

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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

  Running, Loss, Sky

  Joan Didion (1968). "Caminando hacia Belén"

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• Look, I asked you here for a reason. Much as I hate to admit it, vampire, we have something in common. " "Totally awesome hair?" Simon suggested, but his heart wasn't really in it either. Something about the look on Jace's face was making him increasingly uneasy. Simon was caught off guard. "Clary?" "Clary, " Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Heart, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2010). "Cassandra Clare: Serie El instrumento mortal (3 libros): Ciudad de Huesos; Ciudad de Cenizas; Ciudad de Cristal", p.819, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Sleep, Army, Reflection

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.243

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• Think anything like that at her again, and I'll kill you here and now." Madigan's scoff was uneasy. "Any attack on me -" "Is the same as an attack on the United States itself," Bones finished, still in that deadly calm manner. "Heard you the first time - and didn't give a shite then, either.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, Giving, Firsts

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• 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

  Spring, Doors, Research

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.268, Penguin

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• El conductor se bajó sonriendo. Parecía tener unos diecisiete o dieciocho años y, por un segundo, tuve la inquietante sensación de que era Luke, mi viejo enemigo. Tenía el mismo pelo arenoso y el mismo aspecto de chico de campo. Pero no era Luke. El conductor del Maserati llevaba vaqueros, mocasines y una camiseta sin mangas. "Vaya", murmuró Thalia. Apolo está bueno". "Es el dios del sol", dije. "No me refería a eso.

  Rick Riordan

  Pelo, Jeans, Guy

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• Una noche, un amigo me prestó un libro de cuentos de Franz Kafka. Volví a la pensión donde me alojaba y empecé a leer La metamorfosis. La primera línea casi me tira de la cama. Estaba tan sorprendido. La primera línea dice: "Cuando Gregor Samsa se despertó aquella mañana de sueños inquietantes, se encontró transformado en su cama en un insecto gigantesco. . . ." Cuando leí la línea pensé que no sabía que a nadie se le permitiera escribir cosas así. Si lo hubiera sabido, habría empezado a escribir hace mucho tiempo. Así que empecé inmediatamente a escribir relatos cortos.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sueño, Mañana, Libro

  "Gabriel García Márquez, El arte de la ficción nº 69". Entrevista con Peter H. Stone, www.theparisreview.org. 1981.

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• She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct.

  Haruki Murakami

  Personal Opinions, Talking, People

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• I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't yet developed their style and their writer's persona and are easily pushed off the course.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Writing, Practice, People

  "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with the uneasy relationship between what I was doing and what I believed in - or what I saw as an uneasy relationship between those two things.

  Melissa Febos

  Two, Creating, Stories

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.

  Laurie Foos

  Mother, Writing, Thinking

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke up from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic insect" (or beetle or cockroach, depending on the translation). I have to have that first line before I can go further.

  Laurie Foos

  Dream, Cockroaches, Gone

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

  Eleanor Antin

  Photography, Dubious, Fiction

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