U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.”
“Unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.”
“Unmanaged” deconstructs the discipline of management and makes the compelling case that knowledge workers perform much more effectively for “Humble Gardeners” than “Angry Ranchers.” With decades of experience working with hundreds of professional service firms, Jack Skeels presents a convincing case for how the chronically misunderstood agile framework can produce transformational results.”
“Unmanaged is one of those rare books that helps you see that the answers to your most pressing organizational problems are the opposite of what you thought they were.”
Source: The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
“UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.”
“Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable.”
“UNMERCIFUL
My body was a useless entity.
In your presence, it betrayed me.
Like dangerous waters beckoning
In their mystifying beauty.
Their tantalizing fluidity caressed my body
As I resisted taking the plunge.
My body betrayed me,
Ignored me like a preoccupied stranger
With a will of its own.
And, I cruelly learned,
I could control what happened
Only if you were merciful.
But, watching you,
Listening to you,
Was not merciful.
It was a torturous joy.”
Source: Awake with the Songbirds
“Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“Unmet desires are the source of most of the conflict and many of the struggles in our lives. When we don’t get what we want, or when and how we want it, life can get pretty ugly.”
Source: Epic Grace: Chronicles of a Recovering Idiot
“Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.”
“Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations
“Unmistakably, the wild land of the Lake District acted for good upon Coleridge. As he moved between the crags and cataracts, over the fells and the moors, and through the pathless wilds, a sense of joy - joy, the 'beautiful and beauty-making power' as he had longingly called it during the dark spring of 1802 - began to seep back into him. Walking over soft mossy ground on the slopes of Red Pike - 'a dolphin-shaped Peak of a deep red' that rises to the south-west of Buttermere - he gave 'many a hop, skip, & jump'. Up on the mountains that year, he found not the 'Darkness & Dimness & a bewildering Shame, and Pain that is utterly Lord over us' which had characterised his depression, but instead, a 'fantastic Pleasure, that draws the Soul along swimming through the air in many shapes, even as a Flight of Starlings in a Wind!”
Source: The Wild Places
“Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana
“Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.”
“Unmoderated content consumption is as dangerous as the consumption of sewage water.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“Unmoderated intellect often is an impediment to character.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Unmolested and with grass to eat, a tortoise can live eighty years. Their populations have plummeted in the Mojave in recent years, victims of a perfect storm of drought, sprawl development, solar energy projects, off-road vehicle enthusiasts (who crush them under their wheels), poaching, vandals with pistols (who use them for target practice), and, not least, livestock grazing.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“Unmoor the boat, we could go…downriver...
History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities surface towards us and then sink away and some we hook out and others we ignore. And as the pattern changes so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time that returns everything, changes everything. ..a bundle of abandoned clothes. The end of one identity and the beginning of another. …History is a madman's museum. I think I understand some of this, But it’s all subject to the tide. Unmoor the boat. Part miracle part madness. My life is a series of set sails and shipwrecks. I run aground I cut loose, the rim is dangerously near the waterline. I feel like a saint in a coracle. Head thrown back, sun on my throat. Unmoor the boat.”
“Unmoored
I set myself abound,
Like a new ship standing against the ocean;
The waves set free
By land of long imprisonment—
Alone.”
Source: The Willow Song
“Unmute yourself,” I demanded. “I. Am. Not. Muted.” Did he ever sound pissed!”
Source: Dreamfever
“Unn was strong in her lonely position in the schoolyard, not lost and pathetic. Siss used her power to win over the group and was successful; all the same she had the feeling that Unn over there was the stronger, even though she did nothing and had no support. She was losing to Unn, and perhaps the group saw it this way, too?”
Source: The Ice Palace
“Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!”
“Unnamed She:
I sustain all who seek out my shade and feed all who gather my dates. I am the Life-Giving Tree!
An icon, crafted from hands that praised me long ago. Place me in your sacred spaces.
I am the Pillar
Trace my triangle of life
I am the Life-Giving Tree
Asherah:
I am the Word and in the beginning was my lullaby. My song soothed the crying babe of Creation.
I am the Life-Sustaining Tree. All are welcome in my shade. All can be fed from the fruit of my branches. All can be soothed from the breeze rushing through my leaves.
I am the beginning
I am the creatrix
I am the eternal Tree of Life
Featured in Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree.”
“UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.”
“Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.”
“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.”
“Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”
“Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.”
“Unnaturally high radiation levels increases aggression in people”
“Unnecessary aggression is not justice or strength it is human weakness and desire.”
“Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.”
“Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.”
Source: The good word & other words
“Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost.”
“Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.”
Source: Leviathan
“Unnecessary noise is the most cruel abuse of care which can be inflicted on either the sick or the well.”
“Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.”
Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace
“Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”
“Unnecessary silence upon emotions and exigency is an act of self-immolation of your rights and ways.”
“Unnerved, Summerset moved quickly to the communication center. "Roarke, the lieutenant has just come in from outside. She wore no outer gear. She looks very bad."
"Where is she?"
"She's heading up. Roarke, I insulted her and...she apologized to me. Something must be done.”
Source: Conspiracy in Death
“Unnerved, the nerve, you're nervous, nervous that I'm right.”
“Unngh,' the Minotaur says.
What he means is that every past is littered and scarred. What he means is that the present moment is the only moment that pulses, that breathes. What he means is that he himself is capable of great tenderness but has also done great harm. The Minotaur knows that sometimes mercy requires expedience. Haste. Sometimes it can't be about how much a thing hurts.”
Source: The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time
“Unni said that there are thousands of Human Sentiments and many of them have not been named in any language. He said every person has at least one emotion that only he or she feels and no one else in the world can even imagine the feeling. 'Even you, Thoma, among the many things you feel there is one that only you can achieve and no other person in the world.”
Source: The Illicit Happiness Of Other People
“Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.”
“Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland”
“Uno aprende a levantarse de sus propias caídas, ponerse tiritas y cortar el sangrado; de nada sirve que te digan lo que tienes que hacer,”
Source: La abuela
“Uno che ha ragione non ha niente da raccontare. Quelli che hanno delle cose da raccontare sono quelli che hanno torto. 'Siccome tutti i posti dalla parte della ragione erano occupati, ci siamo seduti dalla parte del torto', deve aver detto nel secolo scorso un commediografo tedesco. E perché tutti noi, lettori di Delitto e Castigo, siamo solidali con Raskolnikov? Perché facciamo il tifo per lui e nessuno si dispiace per la vecchia usuraia? Perché la letteratura, il romanzo, è sempre dalla parte del torto. Non nasce nelle corti, nasce nelle piazze dei saltimbanchi, nelle case dei malati, dei cialtroni, degli zingari, dei ladri, dei truffatori, dei briganti, [...], dei mostri, degli idioti.”
Source: Sanguina ancora. L'incredibile vita di Fëdor M. Dostojevskij
“UNO CON EL SOL PONIENTE
El viento, la tierra, el polvo
El cielo, el sol, los cielos
Nos dan forma
Nos dan percepción –
Aquí y ahora
Instilando pasión y poesía
Mito y astrología
En nuestras Almas
Con una visión
Para que crezcamos,
Moldeando sabiduría
en las profundidades de nuestra Alma
Cuándo llegará el tiempo
Para que nosotros compartamos
Todo lo que sabemos
Infinito Ser
Ven a mí
Háblame
Nosotros somos Uno.”
“Uno crece, cambia, evoluciona, pero el deseo de tranquilidad, de inmensa paz, de sentirse protegido y seguro en un abrazo, no pasa nunca.”
“Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido condicionado para creerlas.... La gente cree en Dios porque ha sido condicionada para creer en Dios.”
Source: Mundo feliz / Las puertas de la percepción / Cielo e infierno