Unruly Quotes
55 quotes by 52 authors
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
— Alexander Hamilton
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The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she…
— David Finkelstein
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Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
— Roger L'Estrange
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
— Edward Kasner
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God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways…
— Pope Francis
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At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man -- beautiful, really -- with black unruly hair, large sensitive eyes fringed by…
— Janet Leigh
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But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture…
— Yaron Brook
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I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
— Rivka Galchen
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Hope is a very unruly emotion.
— Gloria Steinem
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Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep…
— Polybius
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I…
— Dick Cavett
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It is clear that God is saying, 'I gave man dominion over the earth, but he lost it. Now I desire mature sons and daughters…
— Pat Robertson
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Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/
— Daniel Goleman
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If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if…
— Mencius
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Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.
— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
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I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would…
— Angela Cartwright
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Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their…
— Renzo Novatore
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