U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Until 1986, developing games was a mere hobby for me. Back then, I didn't know that game designers existed, because the designers' names didn't appear on the boxes.”
“Until 1988, one year of imprisonment had been the maximum for possession of any amount of any drug.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Until 25, I was a master of all and carried a dream to be a famous guy in at least one of em’. It was that sudden realization when I turned 26 that I had to narrow the list down, pick one and struggle for the same again, for then, it must start again and I wondered how could the destiny compensate me for the ‘Master of all’ efforts & struggles I have had. Clueless, answer-less, feeling-less and motionless.”
“Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.”
“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.”
“Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.”
“Until a child is excited about doing more work and taking responsibility, he doesn't have a growth mindset”
“Until a child that has issues with learning is diagnosed by "an expert" as having a learning disability, nothing is wrong with that child except that his motivation and feelings about the said "learning" is inadequate.”
“Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was like stepping into the pages of a book -- a book alive with color and fragrance, filth and chaos -- and the blue-haired girl moved through it all like a fairy through a story, the light treating her differently than it did others, the air seemed to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place was a story about her.”
Source: Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“Until a few months ago, Sam had expressed what I'd always thought of as a regular, brotherly amount of concern for my safety. The past few months, though, he'd become bizarrely nervous. Last week he'd even started encouraging me to carry a sharp wooden stick in my purse if I planned to be out at night.
That's the point where I'd decided he was being ridiculous.
SAM: You don't know who could be out there, Ame
SAM: There could be murderers, muggers, thieves following you home
SAM: Even, you know
SAM: Vampires
I burst out laughing.
AMELIA: Thieves?
AMELIA: Vampires?????
AMELIA: You're playing too much
Baldur's Gate 3”
Source: My Vampire Plus-One
“Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.”
“Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.”
Source: U and I: A True Story
“Until a great awakening moment comes, we lead our lives in utter ignorance. We agonize over our existence and circumstances. We refuse to see what we can do to make this world a better place.
The ‘what’s-in-it-for-me’ assessment is always louder compared to
‘what/how-can-I-contribute?’. And then the moment comes. And we start living a Life of Purpose – selflessly. That’s when – and how – we discover true Happiness!”
“Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.”
Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
“Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.”
Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more
“Until a man is free from the shackles of hatred that binds his soul, he will forever be a slave to his own emotions... An alien to the world of kindness”
“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
“Until a man love God, can he love his neighbour.”
“Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.”
Source: The Law of Success
“Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.”
Source: Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss
“Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.”
Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success
“Until a radical change takes place and we wipe out all nationalities, all ideologies, all religious divisions, and establish a global relationship - psychologically first, inwardly before organizing the outer - we shall go on with wars.”
“Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.”
“Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.”
“Until a team of monkeys have made the round trip to Mars and returned in good health, there is no manned mission to Mars.”
“Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?”
“Until a tragedy touches you, you will never be able to fully understand what life really is!”
“Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.”
“Until a we consider all things that comes into our lives and take preeminence above Christ as idols, we have not yet come close to knowing Him, with a glimpse of His glory, every other thing looses their space in our lives for Christ”
“Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.”
“Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.”
“Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.
We need to Rethink Innovation”
“Until African-Americans and Hispanics can get serious, not just about area studies, which are important, but also about science and technology, they're not going to generate that wealth and that job within those communities. And that has absolutely devastating consequences for the places where people live, for the jobs and for the wealth.”
“Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.”
“Until all of us are free, none of us are free.”
Source: Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown
“Until all of us are free, none of us is free.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.
Progress the process, in order to process, progress. This shall be the responsibility of those who are for the light of universal innovation, as opposed to the benefactors of sectarian division.”
“Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.”
“Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.”
Source: Lesbian nation: the feminist solution
“Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.”
“Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.”
“Until Americans stop getting distracted by the Republicans v/s Democrats melodrama, America will move forward towards war, empire & eventually collapse.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
Source: The Crucible
“Until an overflowing pot is emptied, nothing else can be added to it. If you keep holding onto the sorrows of the past, how and where will you make room for the happiness and joy of the present?”
Source: अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]
“Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.”
“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Until artadhyan (the adverse internal state being that results in hurting oneself) and raudradhyan (the adverse internal state of being that hurts oneself and others) come to an end, one has not Known anything at all. Until then, one should say, "I do not Know anything at all, only the Gnani Purush Knows.”
Source: Harmony in Marriage
“Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.”
“Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.”