Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
I don’t often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.
Roosevelt’s strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.
I don’t feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there’s something that I really did do. I believe I’m just ordinary. And I’d like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I’m prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they’re bad.
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.
I am a social democrat – I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice – but… you can’t do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
I don’t go out unless I’m working. My quality time is when I’m doing nothing.
I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig through my work and see.
You don’t get any better unless you’re around guys who know more than you.
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won’t go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time’s up.
It’s only words… unless they’re true.
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that’s why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.
But now I really don’t want to work unless I really, really care about a project.
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
All babies are ugly unless they’re your baby.
I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
After all, a job isn’t worth doing unless you enjoy it.
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.
Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Unless you’re flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what’s on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.
Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.
Because of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any money doing it.
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
There’s no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you – unless your potion is hard work.
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director’s interests and the actors’ interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.
It’s easy to get a loan unless you need it.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
The golden child may be the oldest one, unless it’s the youngest. It may be the toughest one, unless it’s the most sensitive. It’s not even necessary that Mom and Dad have the same favorite – and typically they don’t.
I’m not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn’t do too well because the record company wouldn’t promote it.
As an actor, you may do things that aren’t politically correct. Unless you’re an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don’t do the good, bad, and the ugly, we’re not going to progress.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth’s climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Saying ‘I’m wrong’ is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound change within ourselves, because we need to realize it’s simply human nature and that everyone makes mistakes.
I think sequels should be earned and we won’t do it unless the script is better than the first one.
Unless you have bad times, you can’t appreciate the good times.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
