Unwritten Quotes

• The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Graduation, Hands, Stills

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• You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

  John Perry Barlow

  Order, Culture, Our Society

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• There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Funny, Success, Giving

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• There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

  Jodi Picoult

  Awards, Schism

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview With Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Women, Law, Political

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• Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

  Italo Calvino

  Reading, Stories, Today

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.156, Random House

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• People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.

  Joe Strummer

  Mean, People, World

  "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten". Documentary, Biography, Music, 2007.

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• The future's unwritten. It's what we make of it.

  Doc Brown

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• If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Law, Doe, Levels

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.21, Macmillan

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• There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Law, Cities, Constitution

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• The future isn't just unwritten, it's unsearched.

  Bruce Sterling

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• Whatever hath been written shall remain,
  Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
  The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
  Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thee, Authorship, Pondering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.917, Delphi Classics

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• No one else can feel it for you
  Only you can let it in
  No one else, no one else
  Can speak the words on your lips
  Drench yourself in words unspoken
  Live your life with arms wide open
  Today is where your book begins
  The rest is still unwritten.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Life, Book, Arms

  "Unwritten". Song by Natasha Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois, Wayne Rodrigues, 2004.

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• A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

  Kurt Huber

  Punishment, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Power, Men, Enemy Of Progress

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• I can't constantly be trying to write the unwritten song, the song that the 15-year-old girl needs. I need to write the song that I need.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• Look in; and learn the wrong, and right,
  From your own soul's unwritten laws.
  And when you question, or demur,
  Let Love be your Interpreter.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Life, Love Is, Law

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1116, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

  Dick Gregory

  Law, White, Black

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• Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Beautiful, Art, Science

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• If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

  John Green

  Mom, Guy, Secret

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.77, Penguin

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• Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Church, Letters

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• It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

  Christopher Lasch

  Law, Support, Wages

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• There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.

  Spike Lee

  Character, Law, Perfect

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• It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Annoyed, Want, Mates

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

  Marco Rubio

  Simple, Ideas, Alternatives

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