Top 555 Unless Quotes

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.
Samuel Johnson
Less is more, unless you’re Al Gore.
Unknown
The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
Alfred Stieglitz
O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden
Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you’ve done one. Even when you’re not on call, you still are working, learning lines, doing appearances, just tense.
Michael Learned
They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is ‘unless they’re Harrison Ford.’
Ryan Gosling
Unless you do an Archie and Edith Bunker, there’s not much left In TV for husband-wife conversation.
Bob Crane
The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.
Colin Powell
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
Roger Mudd
I will never retire unless I have to.
Dolly Parton
Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.
Adam Schiff
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
David Hockney
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there’s a major explosion.
Jim Harrison
You don’t notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.
Drew Curtis
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
Grover Cleveland
I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.
John Wesley
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry
Everyone’s had an interesting life. Unless they’re interested in business or something.
Leonora Carrington
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.
Henry Van Dyke
It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy… unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy – alas, America!
John Paul Jones
Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.
Petro Poroshenko
‘Senior Citizen’ and ‘Silver Surfer’ are the new euphemisms. Unless you’re a female presenter on TV, in which case you’re ready for the knacker’s yard at 35.
Terry Wogan
In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.
Knut Hamsun
Viewers can’t expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let’s face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by ‘beefing’.
Bill Bixby
I don’t think there’s much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there’s some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don’t bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun.
Peter Singer
It’s difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you’re bad. To play a nice guy is harder – unless you are a very nice person like me of course.
James D’arcy
It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.
Maysoon Zayid
Acting careers don’t come out fully formed – not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
John Boyega
It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
Paul Auster
An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.
Hedi Slimane
I’m not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don’t really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.
Anjelica Huston
With the war and everything that’s going on, unless you’re Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!
Robbie Williams
I’ve learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it’s not, really. It’s pretending that it’s a band.
Jimmy Chamberlin
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
Bill Gates
Nobody has a completely happy life, unless you’re completely imbecilic. Life is mostly pretty awful.
Sheila Hancock
I didn’t know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I’d never killed a character before.
Rick Moody
You don’t contest shots without expending energy. You don’t get deflections – unless you walk into one every now and then – without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.
Draymond Green
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl Marx
Every sport has to set itself up for long-term growth and unless you engage with a wider audience and have numbers coming into your sport globally, you’re not quite there.
Abhinav Bindra
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they’re female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that’s leaving their house.
Dylan Moran
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
Alexander Hamilton
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark Powell
I Googled myself, and I saw some nice things and some not-so-nice things. I’ve learned that that stuff isn’t real, and it doesn’t exist unless you look at it.
Lily James
It’s not about what the speaker wants. It’s not about necessarily what I want. There’s two other principles involved here. It’s what the constituents in my district want, and they didn’t want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget.
Tim Huelskamp
What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can’t do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt… Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn’t going to be any United States.
Chesty Puller
I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they’re divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?
Josh Homme
For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou
You’re not really ready to live unless you know what you’re willing to die for.
Rick Warren
You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.
Bob Hope
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome
I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
Agnes Varda
I think that's the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and

I think that’s the main threat in Bosnia and Rwanda and Zaire. There doesn’t seem to be much willingness to engage these problems unless they directly affect national security interests.
John Pomfret
Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
Richard J. Daley
If you have children, you cannot feed them forever with flags for breakfast and cartridges for lunch. You need something more substantial. Unless you educate your children and spend less money on conflicts, unless you develop your science, technology and industry, you don’t have a future.
Shimon Peres
I like light green, sometimes red is fun to look at, not a fan of yellow, unless it’s in a rainbow or on a coffee mug or on a happy face.
Chris Kattan