Unless Quotes
5260 quotes by 3232 authors
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There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
— Plautus
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You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books…
— Pearl S. Buck
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The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should…
— Winston Churchill
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even…
— Nikki Giovanni
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The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a…
— Eric Hoffer
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The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not…
— George Orwell
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You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you,…
— Truman Capote
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Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.
— George Carlin
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
— Samuel Johnson
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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We cannot unthink unless we are insane.
— Arthur Koestler
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Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in…
— Phillips Brooks
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Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and…
— Dalai Lama
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