I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Ezra Pound

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George H. W. Bush

My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
Jackie Collins

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
George Halas

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Barbra Streisand

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
Edwin Land

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
George Herbert

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Samuel Johnson

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Tacitus

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
Jim Harrison

God will not move unless I say it. Why? because He has made us coworkers with Him. He set things up that way.
Benny Hinn

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.
Terry Pratchett

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Sean Hannity

I just had a baby. I'm not going to work unless it's something really special and meaningful, because I can't imagine missing all that time with my daughter.
Gwyneth Paltrow

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.
Pete Rose

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
Ramakrishna

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Walter Lippmann

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
Nicolas de Chamfort

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.
Graham Chapman