A Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Ivy Compton-Burnett
English - Novelist
June 5, 1884 - August 27, 1969

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.

Francoise Sagan

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

George Crabbe

Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and ill at ease in a world of existences, because to exist is an act, not a thing.

Etienne Gilson

I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military.

Mitch Hedberg

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

George Herbert

A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed assistant scoutmaster whose total experience outdoors probably consists of two overnight hikes and a weekend in the Catskills. But we have just had that confrontation. The one who goes by Pritchard's book is Sid's wife, and I am wary. It is not my expedition. I am a guest here.

Wallace Stegner

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

Martine Franck

I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.

Kitty Kelley

The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from the status quo of the world. All the holy people, whose lives fill this book, show readers how to let the grace of God in the sacraments create their lives anew.

Stephen J. Binz

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

Hilaire Belloc

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

Indira Gandhi

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

John Lydon

I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.

Neil Nitin Mukesh

Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?

Alexandre Dumas

People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing here and where am I going? Those sort of basic questions. Even without picking up a book or anything. If they just ask themselves that sincerely, in the quiet of the night, the door will open.

George Harrison

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