Unless Quotes
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Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
— Thomas Merton
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We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us…
— Thomas Merton
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Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
— Ugo Betti
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All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.
— Jane Fonda
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The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
— Jim Harrison
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
— Mark Strand
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and…
— Lord Acton
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You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.
— Horace Mann
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I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.
— Edward Dahlberg
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If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless…
— Scott Caan
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection.…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not…
— Lionel Trilling
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Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
— Marvin Olasky
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Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of…
— William Blackstone
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Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but…
— Peter O'Toole
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It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean…
— George Wald
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I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
— Julian Barnes
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... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it…
— Charles Bukowski
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
— Eddie Van Halen
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People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
— Don DeLillo
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