U Quotes
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“Unless something challenges you, you cannot grow.”
“Unless something happens that we can't predict, I don't think a lot will happen”
“Unless something real cool comes along, I will probably be doing features, so long as I can make a living doing that. Otherwise, I will do another show.”
“Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul.”
“Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.”
“Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.”
“Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.”
“Unless subjected to constant discipline the mental processes of the common sign types are apt to be scattered or non-eventuating. There is a distinct tendency to carry along unfinished business and to procrastinate in decision. If left to its own disorder, the mind may deteriorate into a tumbling ground for whimsies.”
Source: Psychoanalyzing the Twelve Zodiacal Types
“Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and originates in needs and necessities inseparable from life itself, as serving no purpose at all and the result of mere chance. Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional; but misfortune in general is the rule.
I know of no greater absurdity than that propounded by most systems of philosophy in declaring evil to be negative in its character. Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.”
“Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will be 'preaching to the choir'.”
“Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.”
“Unless the Bible is first taught to our own hearts, then we have no basis from which to teach it to others at all.”
“Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“Unless the chairman decides to sack me, I won't be quitting.”
“Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.”
“Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.”
“Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.”
“Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed.”
“Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Unless the desire to be independent is present, the chance of survival is limited.”
“Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.”
Source: Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life
“Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.”
“unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.”
“Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning—much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes (even) business sense.”
“Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes business sense.”
“Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.”
“Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1930–1993
“Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself.”
“Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.”
“Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.”
“Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.”
“Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed the very environment it is itself sustained by.”
Source: Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action
“Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.”
“Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry.”
Source: Dawn of Wonder
“Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city, the guard keeps watch in vain.”
Source: The Holy Bible: King James Version
“Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“Unless the masculine and feminine worlds are governed by the sensual world, they can never be balanced.”
“Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.”
“Unless the object of the singer’s affection is a vampire, surely what Hart means is unphotogenic. Only vampires are unphotographable, but affectionate ‘-enic’ rhymes are hard to come by.”
Source: Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes
“Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.”
“Unless the peace that follows recognizes that the whole world is one neighborhood and does justice to the whole human race, the germs of another world war will remain as a constant threat to mankind.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1943, Volume 12
“Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.”
“Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.”
“Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.”
Source: The Wandering Fire: Book Two of the The Fionavar Tapestry
“Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.”
“Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government”
Source: The Future of Industrial Man
“Unless the quest to make big changes is present, the chance of overcoming big challenges is obstructive.”
“Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.”