Top 96 Unruly Quotes
#1. In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#2. How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual ... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of.
Suzanna Hupp
#3. Even now, standing in the same room with Torin made him feel like a child, gave him a peculiar urge to be unruly. He
Marissa Meyer
#4. He's tall with broad shoulders, the kind I'd like to run my hands across and glide down his strong arms. His dark hair is unruly in contrast to his businesslike attire ...
Georgia Cates
#5. Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.
Hillary Clinton
#6. My unruly hair used to feel like an extension of my personality...full of life and bucking all attempts to be controlled."
Hybrid Angel (Part 1)
Nickie Williams
#7. 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
#8. Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/
Daniel Goleman
#9. Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding.
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
#10. The weather in this land was quite unruly, and if you couldn't appreciate the many shades of gray, you had no business living in it.
Alden Garrat Warrior Heart
Dee Farrell
#11. The door opens and my new neighbor is a vampire. He's nearly a foot taller than me. Unruly ink-black hair, and a face made of knife angles. If I were obnoxious, I might use the term shockingly attractive . Or terrifyingly handsome . Holy mother of balls would also be an option.
Eva Morgan
#12. 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
#14. What would many happy citizens and trustworthy officials have become but unruly, stormy innovators and dreamers of useless dreams, if not for the effort of their schools?
Hermann Hesse
#15. 8But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Anonymous
#16. 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
#17. And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin.
Gary Paulsen
#18. But Father Time is real. And, in truth, he cannot age. Beneath the unruly beard and cascading hair - signs of life, not death - his body is lean, his skin unwrinkled, immune to the very thing he lords over.
Mitch Albom
#19. It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.
George Whitefield
#20. The tongue may be an unruly member
But silence poisons the soul.
Edgar Lee Masters
#21. The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.
Ian McEwan
#22. The diversity of voices, issues, approaches, and processes required to make feminism work as an inclusive social movement is precisely the kind of knotty, unruly insurrection that just can't be smoothed into a neat brand.
Andi Zeisler
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. It is a quintessential example of the whirling kinetics that drive a Keaton film, in which not just the medium but the human body- the permutations of the sinews, the shock of the limbs -seems infinitely elastic, an unruly instument to be wilded with a cheeky kind of grace.
Edward McPherson
#27. Remember this, she thought. The way the light caught in his unruly hair, the love in his brown eyes, the chapped lips that had kissed her only an hour ago, in the darkness.
Kristin Hannah
#28. Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child?
Marisa Silver
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. English loves to stay out all night dancing with other languages, all decked out in sparkling prepositions and irregular verbs. It is unruly and will not obey - just when you think you have it in hand, it lets down its hair along with a hundred nonsensical exceptions.
Catherynne M Valente
#32. The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.
James Newman
#33. 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
#34. But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.
Yaron Brook
#35. Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant ...
Alexander Hamilton
#36. Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.
Baltasar Gracian
#37. You control an unruly dog with a chain ... or a cage. Never underestimate fear" - Heinrich gestured angrily at Roosevelt - "or the men who would capitalize on it to get what they want." "You are such a pessimist. This is America. Nothing like that could ever happen here.
Larry Correia
#38. 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
#39. They're mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries.
Arundhati Roy
#41. The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
Dick Cavett
#43. Because some things should never be forgotten." He smoothed the girl's unruly hair. "Not if we hope to live better lives." *
John Hart
#44. With a sinking heart, I realize that the man in bed with me is too large and unruly to be my boyfriend. What have I done?
Amy Avanzino
#45. When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
Erma Bombeck
#46. I've heard that when citizens are unruly, there's usually a good reason for it.
Marissa Meyer
#47. When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
Edwidge Danticat
#48. After a moment he reached out and brushed the unruly red hair back from his face, like a mother would with a sleeping child. Then he began to sing softly, the tune lilting and strange, almost a lullaby:
Patrick Rothfuss
#49. I will not feed him to a tree, as is done in the Unseelie Court with unruly children," Mark promised.
Cassandra Clare
#50. Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Ernest Jones
#51. Hard it is to train the mind, which goes where it likes and does what it wants. An unruly mind suffers and causes suffering whatever it does. But a well-trained mind brings health and happiness.
Anonymous
#53. When my dreams showed signs
of becoming
politically correct
no unruly images
escaping beyond borders
...
then I began to wonder
Adrienne Rich
#54. I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
Rivka Galchen
#55. Memories are unruly things by nature. Some come when called, but most do exactly as they please, vanishing when you need them and popping up when you'd much rather they didn't.
Rachel Bach
#56. Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#57. 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
#58. He was creating the first letters of the Slavonic alphabet. He started with rounded letters, but the Slavonic language was so wild that the ink could not hold it, and so he made a second alphabet of barred letters and caged the unruly language in them like a bird.
Milorad Pavic
#59. At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man
beautiful, really
with black unruly hair, large sensitive eyes fringed by long dark lashes, a full sensuous mouth
and an irresistible personality. His name was Tony Curtis.
Janet Leigh
#60. All of ye, weapons down!" he yelled. Even the most unruly of dwarves would have at least acknowledged the order, if not followed it. He did not wish to sound racist, but non-dwarves were often very uncivilized.
Patrick Weekes
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Pirate's unruly mop has been tenderly coaxed into a hairstyle as neat as biological circumstances will allow.
Fredrik Backman
#64. One who controls his unruly passions is able to apply with discipline his polite ones.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#65. Like He did with Joshua, the Lord will meet your needs and cover your inadequacies with His power. There is no obstacle so big God can't help you overcome it. Not your finances. Not your schedule. Not your messy house. Not your unruly kids. Not your singleness.
Jennifer Maggio
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson - one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job - about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies.
George Will
#69. I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.
Maureen Corrigan
#70. They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
George Thorogood
#72. 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
#73. The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.
Dorothy Gallagher
#74. 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
#75. Love isn't an obedient whim. It's an unruly force. And it answers to no one.
Chelsea Fine
#76. The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner's manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world's most unruly, passionate and
energetic people safe, prosperous and free.
P. J. O'Rourke
#77. Smartass Disciple: Master, why do some people so stubborn and unruly ?
Master of Stupidity: Only when you want them do according to your wish.
Toba Beta
#78. We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation.
Hermann Hesse
#79. Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.
Victoria Legrand
#80. 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
#81. Our society's love affair with mechanical devices that respond at a button-touch ill prepares us to deal with the unruly organic mind that dwells within. Anything that does not comply must be broken or poorly designed, people now suppose, including their hearts.
Thomas Lewis
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
Katherine Anne Porter
#86. New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.
Elizabeth Winder
#87. What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
Shawn Conners
#88. Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.
Joanne Harris
#89. Others point to data showing that even as toddlers, 40 percent of American two-year-olds watch TV for at least three hours a day - hours they are not interacting with people who can help them learn to get along better. The more TV they watch, the more unruly they are by school age.
Daniel Goleman
#90. I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.
Toni Morrison
#91. In Hollywood, a normal-size body is unruly.
Roxane Gay
#92. 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
#93. [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
#94. '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
#95. (we had added an unruly pug somewhere along the way)
Duff McKagan
#96. Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Roger L'Estrange
