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Quotes About Unruly

Cats are the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there
~ Stephen King
he's a menace to society
~ Gordon Korman
She imagined what it was like to be a big, hairy animal, cock flopping as you walked, like a careless, unruly advertisement
~ Gregory Benford
This one swears like a trooper-- he's a bad boy.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Books know no limits or borders, they create longings and unexpected passions, they pose more questions than answers. They represent the unruly world, filled with contradictions and complications, a world that threatens the totalitarian mindset by being beyond its control.
~ Azar Nafisi
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
~ Ernest Jones
His black-to-gray beard was unruly enough to nest beetle larvae, his hair curled like something out of a bad production of Godspell.
~ Harlan Coben
Words at night were feral things.
~ Joy Williams
Vespa stepped in without saying hello. He still looked natty, still wearing a blazer that seemed to have been tailored by the gods, but the rest of him looked strangely unruly. His hair was always unkempt—that was his look—but there is a fine line between unkempt and not touched at all. It had crossed that line. His eyes were red. The lines around his mouth were deeper, more pronounced.
~ Harlan Coben
And heart's frosty discipline Exact as a snowflake. But here–a burgeoning Unruly enough to pitch her five queenly wits Into vulgar motley– A treason not to be borne. Let idiots Reel giddy in bedlam spring: She withdrew neatly. And round her house she set Such a barricade of barb and check Against mutinous weather As no mere insurgent man could hope to break With curse, fist, threat Or love, either. – Spinster
~ Sylvia Plath
He had proved beyond any reasonable doubt that gods and devils were simply myth and superstition, but deep in his unruly peasant heart ("My father was a village apothecary and my mother was a goatherd's daughter. Can you imagine?") he believed...And belief, like love and sleep, is something you can't do anything about. You can't make it come if you want it, and you can't make it go if you don't.
~ K.J. Parker
Curiosity is unruly. It doesn't like rules, or, at least, it assumes that all rules are provisional, subject to the laceration of a smart question nobody has yet thought to ask. It disdains the approved pathways, preferring diversions, unplanned excursions, impulsive left turns. In short, curiosity is deviant.
~ Brene Brown
political correctness. The history of this concept is as wild and unruly as the conversations about it have become. At this point, the term is so loaded that I think it makes more sense to talk about inclusive language.
~ Brene Brown
She felt wild and unruly, determined and free.
~ Scott Stabile
Sometimes t feels like I live in a circus and all the animals are loose.
~ Terry Ryan
I am madness maddened! That wild
~ Herman Melville
The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life.
~ Ian Mcewan
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
~ Scott Caan
I was a troublemaker.
~ Oksana Masters
I was kind of a troublemaker, believe it or not.
~ Grace Potter
I would say that I'm a hot mess all the time.
~ Adam Rippon
I've always had really messy hair.
~ Ed Sheeran
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly strikingSometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.
~ George Herbert