U Quotes
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“Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.”
“Unless your mind is renewed, you've got to stop speaking out of it.”
“Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is entering into a totally different dimension - the dimension of the mysterious and the miraculous. Now it is becoming religious, sacred, it is no longer profane.”
“Unless your smile is sincere, showing your teeth will not convince people that you are smiling!”
“Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.”
“Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.”
Source: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
“Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?”
“Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.”
“Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.”
“Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.”
“Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.”
Source: The contemporary Bauman
“Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He advised them and advised the head of Howard University to create a good law school. And that inspired Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall in their path-breaking work on behalf of desegregation.”
“Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way.”
“Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.”
“unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.”
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
Man's life is independent.
He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.”
Source: Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.”
“Unlike a Eugenie or a Jackie, but quite like her ancestor the Sun King, Marie Antoinette helped invent fashion as a high-stakes political game - one that she played in dead earnest, and with deadly results. A winner-take-all affair, her program of singular sartorial defiance implicated not just her autonomy and her prestige, but her crown and, eventually, her life.”
Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
“Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”
“Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.”
“Unlike a lot of British directors, I hadn't done any theater. But, I had a great mentor who said, "What you're looking for is exactly the same thing you've done in your documentaries, which is moments of emotional truth.”
“Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.”
“Unlike a lot of other game companies that, once they launch a game, downsize their teams radically, our plan is to keep the team together and continue to focus on building content.”
“Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.”
“Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.”
“Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.”
Source: Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
“Unlike a painting or a sculpture, food is an impermanent, fleeting art form. A momentary artistic offering, the enjoyment of which necessitates its destruction.”
Source: The Plantpower Way: Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for The Whole Family: A Cookbook
“Unlike a precious diamond whose form, luster and beauty never change over decades, relationships are altered by the evolution of traversing life. These alterations within us include both the ascension and diminution of physical and mental capabilities.”
“Unlike a project, we will not be able to bring people to completion. That is God’s job. Our job is to do our part by joining in with the Creator bringing his creation forward, helping it become a part of his incredible world.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy
“Unlike a snake or a bear, a dead nigger could not be skinned for profit and was not worth his own dead weight in coin.”
Source: Beloved
“Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.”
“Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.”
“Unlike abortion nobody gets hurt when gays marry but it does have deep implications for what kind of society we want to be. Therefore, individual states should decide the question.”
“Unlike alcohol, cigarettes and other vices; technology knows no age limits.”
“Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.”
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time.”
“Unlike Americans, who value egalitarian relationships, the Chinese recognize the hierarchical nature of relationships that have uneven power dynamics. Since it is easy for those with power to become paternalistic or patronizing when they serve others, we must learn Christ's humility and self-emptying. As we fill our different roles, we need to fulfill our responsibilities with love and a humbleness to serve. This Chinese understanding of humility serves as a helpful counterbalance to American approaches to urban ministry and development. As guests in any community, we need to approach our neighbors empty of expectations and plans. Instead, we must become reliant on the people of peace whom God sends out. When doing ministry, our joy and strength cannot be based on our own success or power. We receive these gifts only when being guests of the King and recognizing our limitations while in exile.”
Source: At Home In Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors
“Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.”
Source: The World of Tibetan Buddhism: An Overview of Its Philosophy and Practice
“Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.”
Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.”
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.”
“Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
“Unlike any other empirical object in Nature, the mind's presence is immediately apparent to itself, but opaque to all external observers.”
Source: Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
“Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.”
Source: A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
“Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.”
“Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .”
“Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.”
“Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.”
Source: I Never Played the Game
“Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.”
“Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.”
Source: About Looking