. . . in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.
Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere. . . terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.
The strange thing about the apocalypse is that it's uneven. For some people, it goes one way and for others another way, so that there's always this shifting relation to the narrative of the disaster. Sometimes apocalypses are just structural fictions, and sometimes they're real. Sometimes a narrative requires an end - the fact that the beginning was always leading somewhere becomes clear at the end. There's an idea that we're always in the middle, but we posit this apocalyptic end in order to also be able to project into the past or the beginning. I think that's true and false.
People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. But it wasn't like that. He could just never see anything coming, and as he lay on the solid, uneven ground with Hassan pressing too hard on his forehead, Colin Singleton's distance from his glasses made him realize the problem: myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All
The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.
The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
Dwight Eisenhower has been underestimated, which may relate to his advanced age in office, his somewhat uneven communications skills, and his failure to present a forward-looking vision on the rising issue of civil rights.
Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek — tender and calloused.
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
I just went to the doctor today, I got a chest X-ray of my lungs and discovered that my breasts are uneven.
Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots.
Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what is heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.
Uneven numbers are the gods' delight.
