#unless

Sanctions and negotiations can be very ineffective, and indeed foolish, unless the people you are talking with and negotiating with and trying to reach agreements with are people who can be trusted to keep their word. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#foolish #indeed #ineffective #keep #negotiating

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks. ↗

— Samuel West

#books #discover #doing #exist #fill

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#disagree #evil #existence #genuine #himself

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#count #declare #had #hadn #hobby

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. ↗

— Victoria de los Angeles

#baroque #french #german #i #i do

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#arrived #been #exactly #fact #glamorous

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. ↗

— Armand Assante

#great #i #i do #intimacy #people

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. ↗

— David Attenborough

#animal #care #conservation #going #people

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#christian #christian right #humanism #movements #reacting

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me. ↗

— Paul Auster

#because #break #circle #difficult #extremely