Unsettled Quotes

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

I live quite an unsettled life.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman... the markets could be very unsettled.