It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.
When people are unsettled, loyal ministers arise.
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions are old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.
It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
In whatever you do, if you leave a sense of incompleteness, then Creation cannot resent you, ghosts and spirits cannot harm you. If you insist on fulfillment in your work and perfection in achievement, you will become either inwardly deranged or outwardly unsettled.
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.
Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.
I live quite an unsettled life.
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.
The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
Perfect Scepticismeis a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laughed at, then seriously opposed. For when aman is so fugitive and unsettled that he will not stand to the verdict of his own Faculties, one can no more fasten any thing upon him, than he can write in the water, or tye knots in the wind.
