Unsteadiness Quotes & Sayings

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You never win the silver, you only lose the gold — Shahrukh Khan

He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward into stability and then retreated into insubstantial uncertainty. An oscillation, each phase lasting a few seconds and then blurring off into its opposite, a fairly regular variability as if an organic pulsation underlay the structure. As if, he thought, it's alive. — Philip K. Dick

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with. — Gerry Mulligan

I think my mom did everything pretty close to perfect, and I want to be the cool mom that the kids run home to. — Miley Cyrus

Who are you? What do you want? Who are you? Her voice was light and fast and intense and her mouth trembled. She seemed to be on the narrow edge of emotional disaster, holding herself in check with the greatest effort. And about her was a rich and heavy scent of brandy, and an unsteadiness, the eyes too swift and not exactly in focus. — John D. MacDonald

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession. — Gloria Steinem

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there. — Juan Enriquez

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. — Andre Gide

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America. — Al Roker

But kept eyeing Percy as though they were imagining him in a doggie bag. — Rick Riordan

Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage. — Dada Bhagwan

Each pedestrian could see no halo but his or her own, which never deserted the head-shadow, whatever its vulgar unsteadiness might be; but adhered to it, and persistently beautified it; till the erratic motions seemed an inherent part of the irradiation, and the fumes of their breathing a component of the night's mist; and the spirit of the scene, and of the moonlight, and of Nature, seemed harmoniously to mingle with the spirit of wine. — Thomas Hardy

We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike. — Maya Angelou

Everyone deserves someone they don't have to explain themselves to. — Tanya Byrne

And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Youth's scorn and its revolt against the established order, youth's readiness for everything that is heroic, whether it is self-sacrifice or crime, its fiery seriousness and its unsteadiness - all this is nothing but its fluttering attempts to fly. — Robert Musil

The doubts ached in my bones like the deadening crawl of an icy night, and my gun trembled from my unsteady arm. — Katherine McIntyre

I was the balance to his unsteadiness. He was the courage to my fear. — Vi Keeland

Demanding immediate results is an aspect of unsteadiness of mind or laziness. — Matthieu Ricard

Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious. — Piet Mondrian

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible. — Glen Mazzara

I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it. — J.J. Abrams

He could not show his feelings. People told him he was unemotional: but he knew he was at the mercy of his emotions: an accidental kindness touched him so much that sometimes he did not venture to speak in order not to betray the unsteadiness of his will — W. Somerset Maugham

Later, when they sat down and went over the figures closely, they found an interesting pattern. Adamowski had received fifty-one percent of the votes, cast by white persons. But the enormous black vote had given Daley his victory. The people who were trapped in the ghetto slums and the nightmarish public housing projects, the people who had the worst school system and were most often degraded by the Police Department, the people who received the fewest campaign promises and who were ignored as part of the campaign trail, had given him his third term. They had done it quietly, asking for nothing in return. Exactly what they got. — Mike Royko