U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.”
“Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.”
“Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.”
“Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.”
“Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”
“Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.”
Source: Engleby
“Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“Until we can sense a sacred quality in time we will not begin to have a fuller understanding of it.”
Source: Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living
“Until we care more about what God thinks than what other people think we are never truly free”
“Until we choose to deal with our yesterday today, we're never going to step into tomorrow.”
“Until we come up with an unequivocal blood test or the equivalent, we're all blowing smoke and don't know if what we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are one disorder or a dozen.”
Source: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So
“Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.”
“Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings.”
Source: Encounters with Animals
“Until we develop the brain technology to communicate meaning telepathically without talking, no amount of translation can carry the warmth, nuances and sentiment of a lived language.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.”
“Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.”
“Until we don't treat people, animals and environment with respect we have no chance for peace.
We are saying that we want to have peace. But is that so? We value people according to their class, either is low, middle or high and above them all. Where one deserves all our respect (and jealousy) and the other zero.
We want peace but at the same time we support modern slavery, low cost produced goods and inhumane working environment. Saying that we don't have enough money to buy fair trade, cruelty-free or homemade goods.
We will have even less if we will support cruelty among the same species. Not to talk about the one, we impose on animals and environment.”
Source: Hearty Land: A tale about a journey into a land of abundance
“Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.”
“Until we eliminate the mentality of violence, we will not find the harmony within ourselves we're looking for.”
“Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.”
“Until we express ourselves, tell our elected officials what we expect from them, we can't expect them to do it on their own.”
“Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let’s take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)”
Source: A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last
“Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.”
“Until we fully understand what turned two brothers who allegedly perpetrated the Boston Marathon bombings into murderers, it is hard to make any policy recommendation other than this: We need to redouble our efforts to make America stronger and healthier so it remains a vibrant counterexample to whatever bigoted ideology may have gripped these young men....And the best place to start is with a carbon tax.”
“Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.”
“Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to suffer before we are sure we want no more? As much, it seems, as we have to until we don't.”
“Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.”
“Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.”
Source: Complete Works
“Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina.”
“Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.”
“Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.”
“Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.”
Source: Monday Lectures in Tremont Hall, Boston, U.S.
“Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing.”
“Until we have a serious discussion, this problem [racism] will continue to occur.”
“Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.”
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
Source: Letters from a Stoic
“Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.”
“Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.”
“Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.”
“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
“Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.”
“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.”
“Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.”
“Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest itself in the world around us.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“Until we improve livelihoods through better access to education, economy growth, food security, etc, nothing changes.”
“Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.”
Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society
“Until we introduce proper training, testing and licencing in politics, like in medicine, to winnow out the incompetent candidates, nothing will change.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
“Until we know that death is equal to
life, we live in fear.”