Quotes of Unruly - somelinesforyou

“ For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. ”

- Felix Frankfurter

“ Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. ”

- Dorothy L. Sayers

“ Hope is a very unruly emotion. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place. ”

- Elwyn Brooks White

“ Being in the closet, I saw being homosexual as a deliberate choice. It's got nothing to do with choice or the will, but I was being defiant about it. ”

- Thom Gunn

“ I'm a fairly undisciplined writer. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ The rains in Washington on the day that Pope John Paul II died were unusually ferocious, as if the heavens were weeping with uncontrollable sadness. ”

- Suzanne Fields

“ I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated. ”

- Chris Patten

“ Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. ”

- Joshua Loth Liebman

“ These people are incorrigible. And since none of them could graduate anyway, you are all expurgated. You are dismissed! You are out of here forever! I wish you well. ”

- Joe Clark

“ I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me. ”

- Unknown

“ Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment. ”

- William Shenstone

“ Of all animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. ”

- Plato

“ I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ”

- Richard Avedon

“ Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. ”

- Sophocles

“ In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.". ”

- Pauline Kael

“ There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind. ”

- Buddha

“ The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“ The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. ”

- Edgar Watson Howe

“ Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. ”

- Plato

“ Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. ”

- Alfred Jarry

“ An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. ”

- Ernest Jones

“ 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 will. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? ”

- John Donne

“ Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, / And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. ”

- Bible

“ Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: / But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. ”

- Bible
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