Unruly Quotes

• When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself.

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

  Men, Firsts

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.142, Macmillan

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• 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

  Love, Running, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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• If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Track, Rebellious, Cunning

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• The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Silence, Soul, Poison

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Hope is a very unruly emotion.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Hope, Badass

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

  Desmond Tutu

  Father, Lying, Voice

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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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

  Crazy, Leader, Mind

  Rivka Galchen (2008). “Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.

  George Whitefield

  Men

  George Whitefield (1771). “Letters of George Whitefield, for the Period 1734-1742”, p.28, Banner of Truth

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

  Ernest Jones

  Dark, Men, Enemy

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• Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

  Victoria Legrand

  Play, Sound

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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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

  Funny, Dog, Discipline

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2010). “The Hidden Life of Dogs”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

  James, son of Zebedee

  Men, Evil, Poison

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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 that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Love You

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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 will.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Men, Order

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• The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

  Edward Kasner

  Teaching, Math, Infinite

  Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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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 wild and virgin thoughts…planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.

  Renzo Novatore

  Limits, Planning, Heroic

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• What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Biblical, Wind

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• When my dreams showed signs
  of becoming
  politically correct
  no unruly images
  escaping beyond borders
  ...
  then I began to wonder

  Adrienne Rich

  Dream, Escaping, Political

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.

  Walter E. Williams

  Cancer, Doctors, Waiting Rooms

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.273, Hoover Institution Press

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• When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Hair, Unity

  FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Jul 12, 2011

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• In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Parent, Today

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Powerful, Men

  "Radio and Television Report to the Nation on the Situation at the University of Mississippi". September 30, 1962.

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• Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Sophie, Fool, Busy

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

  George Thorogood

  Friendship, Jobs, Cutting

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