Unlike Quotes
903 Unlike quotes by 768 unique authors
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The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over…
— Eric Hoffer
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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers,…
— Arthur Koestler
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One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat]…
— Claude Monet
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It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values…
— Richard Hofstadter
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A lot can happen in a week - just read any Bible, .. On the seventh day, Election Day, unlike the Bible, we can't rest.
— Michael Bloomberg
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The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
— Gloria Estefan
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Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.
— Arthur Laurents
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Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.
— Michael Kimmelman
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We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have…
— Rachel Carson
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Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.
— Luther Burbank
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Women do not help each other attain enlightenment because in the description of the world they've been given, unlike that of men, it's every woman…
— Frederick Lenz
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Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.
— Robert Draper
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You would have thought that as you got older the voice would tend to deteriorate in some ways, but I always look at somebody like…
— Todd Rundgren
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Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make…
— Burton Silverman
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Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. … What makes me different from the ‘nazis’ are basically three things; unlike them…
— Varg Vikernes
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We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or…
— Alan Cohen
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Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.
— Criss Jami
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Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect…
— Wilfrid Sheed
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Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals…
— Paul Valery
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The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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