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New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic. — Elizabeth Winder

With a sinking heart, I realize that the man in bed with me is too large and unruly to be my boyfriend. What have I done? — Amy Avanzino

Love isn't an obedient whim. It's an unruly force. And it answers to no one. — Chelsea Fine

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing. — Shawn Conners

The novel is too capacious, inclusive, unruly, and personal for perfection. Too long, sometimes too much like life. — Ian McEwan

People always ask my mom what I did as a kid. My mom says, "He wasn't a bad kid. He was never an unruly kid, always listened and obeyed." — Larry The Cable Guy

In Hollywood, a normal-size body is unruly. — Roxane Gay

Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play. — Victoria Legrand

I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers. — Maureen Corrigan

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange

My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away ... literally. — Becca Fitzpatrick

We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation. — Hermann Hesse

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job. — George Thorogood

(we had added an unruly pug somewhere along the way) — Duff McKagan

Pirate's unruly mop has been tenderly coaxed into a hairstyle as neat as biological circumstances will allow. — Fredrik Backman

Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention. — Hillary Clinton

Why did people try to shush trouble away as if it were an unruly child? — Marisa Silver

It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men. — George Whitefield

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

In an empire as unruly as Rome, it is quite easy to get away with something as thespian as murder. — Katlyn Charlesworth

Even now, standing in the same room with Torin made him feel like a child, gave him a peculiar urge to be unruly. He — Marissa Meyer

The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. — Dorothy Gallagher

8But no man can tame the tongue. It is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. — Anonymous

Dogs who chase cars evidently see them as large, unruly ungulates badly in need of discipline and shepherding. — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Hope is a very unruly emotion. — Gloria Steinem

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members. — Katherine Anne Porter

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant ... — Alexander Hamilton

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. — James Newman

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. — Rivka Galchen

My unruly hair used to feel like an extension of my personality...full of life and bucking all attempts to be controlled."
Hybrid Angel (Part 1) — Nickie Williams

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him. — Ernest Jones

The tongue may be an unruly member
But silence poisons the soul. — Edgar Lee Masters

Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/ — Daniel Goleman

The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex. — Dick Cavett

Because some things should never be forgotten." He smoothed the girl's unruly hair. "Not if we hope to live better lives." * — John Hart

All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob. — Douglas Jardine

I will not feed him to a tree, as is done in the Unseelie Court with unruly children," Mark promised. — Cassandra Clare

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie — Diana Wynne Jones

I've heard that when citizens are unruly, there's usually a good reason for it. — Marissa Meyer

No man can rule the unruly until he first rules himself. — Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out. — Erma Bombeck

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? — John Donne

One who controls his unruly passions is able to apply with discipline his polite ones. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted. — Baltasar Gracian

Smartass Disciple: Master, why do some people so stubborn and unruly ?
Master of Stupidity: Only when you want them do according to your wish. — Toba Beta

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos which we tamper with at our peril. — Logan Pearsall Smith

When my dreams showed signs
of becoming
politically correct
no unruly images
escaping beyond borders
...
then I began to wonder — Adrienne Rich

And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin. — Gary Paulsen

Unruly geeks change the world — Alexandra Robbins