Unless Quotes
5260 quotes by 3413 authors
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The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled…
— Susanna Clarke
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Going round and around inside a dryer can be fatal, whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.
— Cassandra Clare
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The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But,…
— Alan Moore
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What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already,…
— N.D. Wilson
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Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and…
— Jane Austen
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Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to…
— Dale Carnegie
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In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who…
— John Stuart Mill
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Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They…
— Rick Riordan
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For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have…
— James C. Collins
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Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
— Jasper Fforde
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No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in…
— Margaret Atwood
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There are things you won't know unless you try to find out. it's possible to notice things without seeming to. You're not a kid who…
— Kazuya Minekura
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Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch…
— Kazuya Minekura
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If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably…
— Joe Bageant
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In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
— Flannery O'Connor
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And it is clear to Evan, now: the difference between what is and what has been done; the present and the past. He sees that…
— Garth Stein
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Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a…
— Christopher Hitchens
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