Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.
Steven Runciman

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
Amelie Mauresmo

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.
Paul Kane

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.
Thomas Harrison

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
Daniel Akaka

Unlike most other children, - especially unlike those of today - who are eager to become men and women as speedily as possible, I had a terror of growing up, which became more and more accentuated as I grew older.
Pierre Loti

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
Christopher Dawson

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.
Les Brown

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
Stanislav Grof

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Mason Cooley

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
Georg Baselitz

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

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

We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.
Gerard Arpey

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
Robert Byrd