56 Unattended Quotes

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Famous Unattended Quotes

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. — Lao Tzu

No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. — Tilopa

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. — Lao Tzu

The unspoken word never does harm. - Lajos Kossuth

The unspoken word never does harm. — Lajos Kossuth

...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly. — Chinua Achebe

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful. — Elizabeth Bishop

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. — Henry J. Kaiser

If something goes without saying, let it. — Michael Easter

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. — Fay Weldon

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. — Unknown

The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. — Anne Bancroft

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf. — Charlaine Harris

No one dare disturb the sound of silence... — Paul Simon

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas. — Beatrice Warde

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Short Unattended Quotes

  • Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. — Cher
  • Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended. — Evan Esar
  • Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended. — Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions. — Laurie R. King
  • Left unattended, problems only intensify. — Mary Kay Ash
  • An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat. — Guy Finley

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More Unattended Quotes

For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts — T. S. Eliot

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine. — Rick Larsen

I feel a complete protection on my pilgrimage. God is my shield. There are no accidents in the Divine Plan nor does God leave us unattended. No one walks so safely as those who walk humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith. — Peace Pilgrim

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says. — Suzanne Collins

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended. — Harold Town

Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm. — Anthony Shadid

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran

Neighbors are far better acoustic analyzers for determining the quality of their life versus any acoustic instrument left unattended by an expert. — Stephen Ambrose

Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles. — Yochai Benkler

Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, it is that we are empowered-in every present moment-to effortlessly dismiss any dark thought or feeling that, left unattended, diminishes our happiness. — Guy Finley

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun. — Anna Julia Cooper

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. — Ruth Ozeki

Turning pot handles the other way around on the stove, making sure you talk with your family and kids directly about fire safety and about kitchen safety, keeping your tree at least three feet from a heater or any kind of lights or flames, making sure that candles aren't left unattended. It's all things that we should know and we think about initially, but during the holidays, in the commotion it seems to get kind of lost. — Charlie Barnett

One of the biggest things for me was driving two hours to the location everyday, and then having to lug out two carts of equipment alone, and I always had to consider - I was shooting on a beach - I'm like, "Okay, bring out the props first that no one will steal," because I have to leave it unattended for a couple minutes while I grab my second cart of things. — Kirsten Lepore

This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul. — Lawrence Block

The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain. — Aristotle

The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor. — Haruki Murakami

Bobby and I were married in 1954 and by now we know that anger does not mean "I don't love you" or "I want a divorce." It means, "I am wounded and in need of love, and I feel safe telling you about it because you are my family." Sometimes our behavior with each other is no different from the cry of an unattended baby. — Bernie Siegel

Katniss Everdeen, you have caused a spark, wich left unattended, may cause a spark that could cause a whole rebelion — Suzanne Collins

What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended. — William Shakespeare

Meanwhile it's got stormy, the tattered fog even thicker, chasing across my path. Three people are sitting in a glassy tourist cafe between clouds and clouds, protected by glass from all sides. Since I don't see any waiters, it crosses my mind that corpses have been sitting there for weeks, statuesque. All this time the cafe has been unattended, for sure. Just how long have they been sitting here, petrified like this? — Werner Herzog

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