U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.”
“Until they arrived, while everyone else was transitioning to winter, putting on coats and sweaters, I was going to stick with my summer dress and my usual work blazer. Dressed in the dazzling flowers of some tropical island adrift in an ocean of deep pink, there I sat, in a season and place all my own.”
Source: Diary of a Void
“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
“Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.”
Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes
“Until they come up with an independent woman who's on an adventure of her own, I don't think I'm interested.”
“Until they do, I ignore them. Action over words.”
“Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.”
“Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black.”
Source: CASH: Die Autobiografie von Johnny Cash
“Until this century, most of mankind lived in small communities. What each did could affect only a few others. But conditions have now changed. Each of us can now, in countless ways, affect countless other people. We can have real though small effects on thousands or millions of people. When these effects are widely dispersed, they may be either trivial, or imperceptible. It now makes a great difference whether we continue to believe that we cannot have greatly harmed or benefited others unless there are people with obvious grounds for resentment or gratitude.”
Source: Reasons and Persons
“Until this minute she had thought all adults were supposed to like all children. She understood by now misunderstandings were to be expected- she had had several with teachers - and often children and grown-ups did not agree, but things somehow worked out. For a grown-up to actually dislike a child and try to shame her, she was sure had to be wrong, very, very wrong.”
Source: Ramona Forever
“Until this moment I had been a prince, expected and announced. Now I was negligible.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Until this moment, I had never considered that someone could grieve something that wasn’t a death.”
Source: The Loudest Silence
“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness....Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
“Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.)”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“Until this point Tiffany had assumed that abusers... must live in denial. If not, how could they go on? How could you hurt or degrade a person when you were fully cognisant of what you were doing? Well, it turned out you could...”
Source: Sleeping Beauties
“Until thy faith is tested,’ said Mother, ‘none may know my divine embrace.”
Source: Alien, Vol. 2: Revival
“Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.”
“Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews.”
“Until today the rights of people have always been put forward by a few individuals acting in the name of the masses. Today instead of people no longer want to be represented; each wants to speak for himself and participate directly - it's the same for the Negroes, for the Jews, for women.”
“Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.”
“Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about all of the things you want to leave behind. Remember, the good thing about doing this today is that you still have time to rewrite your life's content if necessary.”
Source: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind
“Until tomorrow, Fair Isolde.”
Source: School Spirits
“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.”
Source: The Left Hand of God
“Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.”
“Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.”
“Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.”
“Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance.”
“Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.”
“Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.”
“Until we are able to maximize our time, we will never have enough time to develop and invest in ourselves”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.”
Source: An Epistle to the Hebrews
“Until we are alone in the world, we may not realize the extent of how our community is designed for couples. Ruth was no longer part of that couple-community. Even if invited to gatherings, Ruth would still feel awkward in a setting of mostly couples—and the couples would feel awkward for her . . . and nothing feels worse than that.
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 71”
Source: Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material
“Until we are free to think for ourselves, our dreams are not free to unfold.”
Source: Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
“Until we are ready to let go of some things, bigger things don’t come to us.”
“Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom”
“Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.”
“Until we become an educator to everyone, we can be critical of the person, instead of the misunderstanding.”
“Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.”
“Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.”
“Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.”
“Until we begin to discover and create value, purposefully and systemically, we are not humans but only biomass”
“Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as civilized men and women, our country will continue to suffer the steady deterioration in standards that disturbs us all.”
“Until we begin to live for people and stop living for self, we have not started living, we just exist.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“Until we begin to see each other as ourselves, nothing will change. We are one planet.”
“Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.”
“Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.”
“Until we can all present ourselves to the world in our completeness, as fully and beautifully as we see ourselves naked in our bedrooms, we are not free.”
“Until we can ban all of them [firearms], then we might as well ban none.”
“Until we can be together again ... we wait ... and believe!”
Source: Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 28