In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.) — Rainbow Rowell
Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law. — Ambrose
Our lives are written in disappearing ink. — Michelle Cliff
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. — John Perry Barlow
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
The only rule is that there are no rules. — Del Close
The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules. — Gary Gygax
Obey the principles without being bound by them. — Bruce Lee
In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories — Sol Stein
Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary. — Pierre Boulez
If something goes without saying, let it. — Michael Easter
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield
People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world. — Joe Strummer
Nobody tells you what you can and can't do. — Dan Brown
Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business. — Sallie Krawcheck
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. — Dietrich FischerDieskau
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. — Rob Sheffield
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten — Richard Bach
The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. — Carl Jung
Unwritten Image Quotes
Unwritten Rules Quotes
For many people, the unwritten rules of sidewalk choreography now include this: If what I’m reading or watching on my phone is sufficiently interesting to me, it’s entirely up to you to get out of my way. — Oliver Burkeman
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. — Bo Bennett
There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product. — Peter Lynch
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. — Robert Foster Bennett
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it. — Ron Wood
When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules. — Paul Mooney
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it. — Ronnie Wood
Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it. — Noel Coward
One of the unwritten rules in a presidential news conference is that he'll answer questions. If he chooses not to, there's not much you can do about it other than make yourself look like an idiot screaming, which to me is counterproductive. — Gwen Ifill
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood. — Yasmin Mogahed
I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. — Ahmad Shamloo
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say. — Mitch Albom
Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture. — Shirin Neshat
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? — Doug Coupland
Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love. It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening. — William R. Bradford
enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them. — Emily Carr
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood. — Alexandra Adornetto
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. — Arabic Proverbs
Unseen Quotes
I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life. — Hildegard of Bingen
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. — Edward Bernays
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen. — George Jean Nathan
It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature. — Ibn Arabi
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. — Anaxagoras
My grief lies all within,
And these external manners of lament
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence in the tortured soul. — William Shakespeare
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. — Kenneth Grahame
There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet. — J. R. R. Tolkien
I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where they two mutually inspire each other to live– if I’ m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love. — Hayao Miyazaki
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. — Spike Lee
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. — Kurt Huber
In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction. — Anthony Hope
One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation. — Anna Julia Cooper
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. — Nadine Gordimer
What is the little one thinking about?
Very wonderful things, no doubt;
Unwritten history!
Unfathomed mystery!
Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
As if his head were as full of kinks
And curious riddles as any sphinx! — J. G. Holland
I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me. — Fernando Pessoa
I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? — Rebecca West
The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians. — Shirley Chisholm
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield
Whatever hath been written shall remain,
Nor be erased nor written o'er again;
The unwritten only still belongs to thee:
Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that? — Miguel Syjuco
If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service. — Jonathan Carroll
There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. — Jodi Picoult
Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten. — Agnes Repplier
I'm up to my ears in unwritten words. — J. D. Salinger
For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart. — Pericles
Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought. — Emily Haines
The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield
There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend. — Marion Barry
There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law. — Diogenes Laertius
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.' — Aristotle
There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper. — Adam Rapp
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