All Quotes

Unlike the fast-paced world of racing, there is nothing rushed about growing grapes. They take their time lazily basking in the summer sun, and come fall, as I watch them impatiently, waiting for that perfect balance needed to harvest, I swear they call out to me, 'What's the hurry?'
‐‐ Scott Pruett

Unlike the federal government, most states don't have the option of running a deficit.
‐‐ Marcia Angell

Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.
‐‐ Andrew Marr

Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of neurons, and neuroscientists still argue whether specific types of neurons are unique to humans. But there is no disputing that neurons are only about 10 percent of the cells in the human brain.
‐‐ Thomas R. Insel

Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.
‐‐ Robert Harris

Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
‐‐ Hans Jonas

Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.
‐‐ David Novak

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Unlike the LeBrons and A-Rods of the world, anointed as special from pre-K, Matt Leinart exudes an approachability rarely seen in superstars. It's why kids on the autograph line chat him up like a buddy with whom they could stay up late playing Xbox.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
‐‐ Lytton Strachey

Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
‐‐ Mamata Banerjee

Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
‐‐ Hamdi Ulukaya

Unlike the phone system, which is engineered around an application, the Internet layered model allows you to, in essence, separate applications from infrastructure.
‐‐ Michael K. Powell

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.
‐‐ Richard V. Allen

Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
‐‐ Garth Nix

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

Unlike the traditional athlete, I've got to do more than just engage in my sport to put food on the table. When I'm done running, it's straight to the office.
‐‐ Dean Karnazes

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.
‐‐ George Ayittey

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.
‐‐ John M. McHugh

Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.
‐‐ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Unlike us, machines do not have a 'nature' consistent across vast reaches of time. They are, at least to begin with, whatever we set in motion - with an inbuilt tendency towards the exponential.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield

Unlike with any other art form, filmmakers have this unique web of festivals. There are hundreds. It is a democratic system in which you submit films, and if they are good enough, they play. The only barrier to entry is the submission fee.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference.
‐‐ John Prendergast

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.
‐‐ John Whiting

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
‐‐ Peace Pilgrim

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.
‐‐ Ann McLane Kuster

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists.
‐‐ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.
‐‐ Sean Brady

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
‐‐ Edward Gibbon

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
‐‐ John Stuart Mill

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every comfort and privilege that is not incompatible with the continued existence of the relations between them.
‐‐ Roger B. Taney

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!
‐‐ Eliot Ness