U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.”
Source: Babbitt
“Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage
“Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and then a quiet, as though she'd settled like a bird.”
Source: The Master Butchers Singing Club
“Upon watching a young child do, explore, or create something, you are witnessing an unconditioned essential spirit willing itself into direct action towards a result.”
“Upon what grounds do you refuse?"
"Upon the grounds that you owe me."
"Do you plan to run me before a judge and jury?" he asked wryly.
"I don't need to," she retorted, playing her last, most powerful card. "I only have to run you before my brother-in-law."
There was a beat as the words sank in, and his eyes widened, just barely, just enough for her to notice before he closed the distance between them, and said, "A fine idea. Let's tell Bourne everything. You think he would force me to honor our agreement?"
She refused to be cowed. "No. I think he would murder you for agreeing to it in the first place. Even more so when he discovers that it was negotiated by a lady of the evening."
Emotion flared in his serious grey gaze, irritation and... admiration? Whatever it was, it was gone almost instantly, extinguished like a lantern in one of his strange, dark passageways. "Well played, Lady Philippa." The words were soft as they slid over her skin.
"I rather thought so." Where had her voice gone?”
Source: One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
“Upon you will be founded a city, a city past compare in riches and marvels and beauty,” she said. “But first, you must lose yourself, riding on the waves of seven oceans. Only at your journey’s end will you come to rest, and only then will the city rise. It will be a city of eternal summer, a land of surpassing beauty. Indeed, it will come to be known as the city of the gods.”
“Where must I journey? Where should I go?” asked the fisherman, staring in awe at her radiant beauty.
“Before, between, and beyond. Tomorrow night, take your boat and sail towards the rising moon,” she replied. “And you will find your destiny.”
Source: Sofia and the Utopia Machine
“Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!”
“Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.”
“uponte que tú ofreces un empleo y sólo hay un tío que quiera trabajar. Tienes que pagarle lo que pida. Pero pon que haya cien hombres 'dejó descansar la herramienta. Sus ojos se endurecieron y su voz se volvió más penetrante'. Supón que haya cien hombres interesados en el empleo; que tengan hijos y estén hambrientos. Que por diez miserables centavos se pueda comprar una caja de gachas para los niños. Imagínate que con cinco centavos, al menos, se pueda comprar algo para los críos. Y tienes cien hombres. Ofréceles cinco centavos y se matarán unos a otros por el trabajo.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
“Upozorila me neka ne zaboravim da nisam lijepa, i neka se uvijek, kada ne znam što bih, upitam tko sam.”
Source: AZ
“Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.”
“Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely to interact regularly only with kin and neighborhood children, which limits their formation of valuable weak ties.”
Source: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
“Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.”
“Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.”
“Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.”
“Upper-middle income and high-income nations – countries over the threshold of $10,000 per capita – could in theory deliver flourishing lives for all, achieving real progress in human development, without needing any additional growth in order to do so. We know exactly what works: reduce inequality, invest in universal public goods, and distribute income and opportunity more fairly.”
Source: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
“Uppoffringen av en väcker hela mänskligheten.”
Source: Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi
“Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.”
Source: Eighteen Sermons on Various Subjects
“uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.”
“Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.”
“Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.”
“Ups and downs in life are like debit and credit transactions in accounts; cause and effect for balancing and growth.”
Source: Debit Credit of Life: from the good books of accounts
“Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive”
“UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.”
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending to all of them that they leave Macondo, that they forget everything he had taught them about the world and the human heart, that they shit on Horace, and that wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Upset that you have lost your paycheck during the COVID-19 pandemic? Welcome to the world of millions of the disabled!”
“Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos...To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality”
Source: The Truth Behind Truth: What Lies Beyond...
“Upset? Ask yourself what this person does that is a trigger for judging them?”
“Upskill, up-sell, and whatever good it takes; do it, to grow.”
Source: Modified Leadership
“Upstairs!”
“Upstairs in the attic wrapping gifts and listening to "The Jackson 5 Christmas Album”.
If this doesn't get you in the Christmas spirit, Nothing else will -(CJF 1982)”
“Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable”
Source: Kindertransport: A Drama
“Upstairs, on the balcony, the chairs are laid out for one of the most extraordinary – though invisible – rituals of a Palace banquet. In a tradition harking back to the medieval custom of royal meals as public entertainment, two dozen people will have tickets to sit behind the Band of the Grenadier Guards and simply watch the banquet. The ‘audience’ will be made up of members of staff, each of whom can bring a guest, and it’s always extremely popular as the ‘audience’ have dinner thrown in. However, once seated no one is allowed to budge for the best part of two hours.”
Source: Her Majesty: The Court of Queen Elizabeth II
“Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.”
Source: The Essential Adam Smith
“Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.”
“Upstate New York is anywhere north of New York City.”
“Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.”
Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by
“Uptown is for people who have already done something. Downtown is where they’re doing something now. I live uptown but I love downtown.”
“Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.”
“Upturned face.
Parted lips.
The good-night kiss he couldn’t leave without.
Only, Megan’s lips were stiff and unyielding. She didn’t pull away. It might almost have been better if she had. Instead, she’d allowed the kiss to occur, taking it with the same cool detachment offered in her words.”
Source: Waking Up Married
“Upward, not Northward”
Source: Flatland
“Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous... They're heavy like Soundgarden or Zeppelin with killer female vocals, but with their own unique style.”
“Ur nattomhöljda tider
emot ett mål, fördolt för dig,
o mänsklighet, du skrider
i sekler fram din ökenstig!
Din dag är blott en strimma,
som lyser blek och matt -
se, framom henne dimma
och bakom henne natt!
Och släkten, där du tågar,
i öknen segna ned,
och bävande du frågar:
allsmäktige vart bär min led?”
Source: Oberoende: Viktor Rydbergs klassiska liberalism
“ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.”
“Ur tankar och känslor föds ord och handlingar. Hur skulle tankar och känslor då kunna vara den enskildes ensak? (...) Hittills har det bara inte varit möjligt att kontrollera dem - men nu är alltså medlet funnet.”
Source: Kallocain
“Ura este un acid care corodează sufletul, indiferent dacă tu ești cel ce urăște sau cel urât.”
Source: The Night in Lisbon