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Hope is a very unruly emotion. -- Gloria Steinem
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
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
It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show. -- Ziggy Marley
I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly - in a good way! -- Angela Cartwright
Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention. -- Hillary Clinton
Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child? -- Marisa Silver
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. -- James, son of Zebedee
Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding. -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. -- Erma Bombeck
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. -- Edwidge Danticat
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.' -- David Finkelstein
The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times; His fits when he is neither sick nor well, Though no distress be near him but his own Unmanageable thoughts. -- William Wordsworth
Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly magic; luckily for readers, she chooses to use her powers for good. -- Anne Ursu
The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting. -- Brian Christian
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble. -- Catherynne M. Valente
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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
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
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death. -- Polybius
If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within. -- Mencius
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In Hollywood, a normal-size body is unruly. -- Roxane Gay
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. -- James Newman
My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. -- Frank Miller
It is a truth universally acknowledged that from puberty onwards, the female body is disgusting and unruly and must be tamed, trimmed and tinted to within an inch of its life before it can be allowed to roam freely in the public eye. -- Stella Young
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern. -- Ian Rankin
The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. -- Jeremy Renner
For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination. -- Anthony Marra
Busy old fool, unruly Sophie -- Diana Wynne Jones
All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob. -- Douglas Jardine
No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself. -- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. -- Edward Kasner
The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul. -- Edgar Lee Masters
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex. -- Dick Cavett
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant... -- Alexander Hamilton
It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men. -- George Whitefield
The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. -- Dorothy Gallagher
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. -- Ernest Jones
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. -- Ernest Jones
Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/ -- Daniel Goleman
The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members. -- Katherine Anne Porter
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. -- Rivka Galchen
When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders ... then I began to wonder -- Adrienne Rich
Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play. -- Victoria Legrand
They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job. -- George Thorogood
What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing. -- Max Muller
[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with her children:] Have you tried infanticide? -- Joan Crawford
People always ask my mom what I did as a kid. My mom says, "He wasn't a bad kid. He was never an unruly kid, always listened and obeyed." -- Larry the Cable Guy
God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking. -- Pope Francis
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies. -- Eugene Hutz
The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that was associated with the unruly ignorance of an urban mob. -- Lewis H. Lapham
We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear. -- Tim Gunn

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