Words matter. These are the best Unless Quotes from famous people such as John Millington Synge, Abraham Lincoln, Franz Kafka, Morgan Brittany, B. R. Ambedkar, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
I generally don’t like to talk too much about the character unless I feel stuck or in some trouble.
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?
I have never had a dietician and I never will, unless I get a disease.
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
LA’s a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don’t take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody’s giving each other catty looks.
The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.
I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn’t made money with it.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.
No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That’s fair enough, isn’t it? Unless you’re a cowboy, of course.
The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.
No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you’re doing.
One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
I strongly believe that you can’t win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. If you don’t have a winning culture inside, it’s hard to compete in the very tough world outside.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
If you’re asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.
I am not anybody’s fan – unless you’re talking about Rajinikanth.
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and organization, he cuts his hair. If I were organizing in an orthodox Jewish community, I would not walk in there eating a ham sandwich unless I wanted to be rejected so I could have an excuse to cop out.
You can’t even begin to understand biology, you can’t understand life, unless you understand what it’s all there for, how it arose – and that means evolution.
I can’t make a movie unless I believe in the themes behind it. I mean, that’s the first question I ask myself, always, is, ‘What is this movie about?’
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can’t be grown up unless you’re moaning about your job.
It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the ’60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the political and the civil rights, we wouldn’t go anywhere.
You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won’t stay unless they see real career options.
Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn’t just the ’40s, either. In the ’30s and in the ’50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you’re going do unless you’re faced with it.
The State thrives on war – unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed – expands on it, glories in it.
There is no need for me continuing unless I’m able to improve.
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for – because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night – or any other time, for that matter – unless they were dressed to the nines.
The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won’t understand that if we don’t protect those habitats, we’ll eventually destroy ourselves.
You can’t win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them – you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.
Coming into the business, you’d pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don’t get wise, but you don’t get wise unless you age.
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.
Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.
No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it’s something really spectacular, don’t tweet me your breakfast, I don’t care.
The frustrating part of it is that you’re generally known for what you did last. I’ve had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn’t see unless you’re at a film festival or you’re into that kind of movie.
If you’re going to go for a thing, there’s no point unless you’re going all the way.
Most men, even egotistic actors, always shy away from dancing with me. Other dancers report the same trouble. They probably figure that I would be mentally comparing them with Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly. So I go to parties and usually just sit – unless George Burns is there – and then I have a ball.
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
