U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Urafa bestari kerap berpesan: "ilmu fis sudur la fis sutur"
Ilmu dalam dada membangunkan umat dari lena tidur
Wajib menulis pada khalayak semasa dan sepanjang zaman
Merungkai yang kusut, menerangi gelap fikiran, kabur pandangan
Tetap menghidupkan prinsip bukan berubah mengikut masa
Ilmu berakar dalam jiwa bukan jubah, serban, jangut berhenna.”
Source: Mutiara Taman Adabi : Sebuah Puisi Mengenai Agama, Filsafat dan Masyarakat
“Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.”
“Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.”
“Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.”
“Urban Americans lost the tactile experience of raising food. They neither heard the squeals, nor smelled he offal, nor saw the blood, nor tasted the rage when predators swallowed a cherished investment.”
Source: Vicious: Wolves and Men in America
“Urban and untamed, Mexico City possesses a raw vitality; it is a city where the poetic is found in the most unexpected places.”
“Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information”
“Urban artist have to face the stigma not only from white Australia but black Australia too; that's horrific when people say that their art isn't "Aboriginal" if it doesn't have dots or lines or moieties in it.”
“Urban callused feet
Walking barefoot on the beach
Worn smooth by the sand”
“Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.”
Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)
“Urban decay is a thing. And the way to avoid urban decay is to actively plan for urban regeneration.”
“Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.”
“Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.”
“Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.”
“Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.”
“Urban farming appeals to people on the right and the left. People have different reasons for getting into it. Some people are like doomsdayers, they think there's going to be some horrible catastrophe and how will we survive? And then there's people that are more like, "We want to be socialists and have communal chicken coops." It really runs the whole gamut.”
“Urban landlords quickly realized that piles of money could be made by creating slums: “maximum profits came, not from providing first-class accommodations for those who could well afford them… but from crowded slum accommodations, for those whose pennies were scarcer than the rich man’s pounds.” Beginning in the sixteenth century, slum housing would be reserved not only for outcasts, beggars, and thieves but for a large segment of the population.”
Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.”
“Urban people celebrate death, they just invite people, dine in the name of dead; even if the dead goes to hell. Nevertheless, rustic people are different. They rejoice when someone dies; they cry.”
Source: S
“Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.”
Source: So this is depravity
“Urban planning is a scientific, aesthetic and orderly disposition of Land, Resources, Facilities and Services with a view of securing the Physical, Economic and Social Efficiency, Health and well-being of Urban Communities. As over the years the urban population of India has been increasing rapidly, this fast tread urbanization is pressurizing the existing infrastructure leading to a competition over scare resources in the cities.
The objective of our organization is to develop effective ideas and inventions so that we could integrate in the development of competitive, compact, sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities in terms of land-use, environment, transportation and services to improve physical, social and economic environment of the cities.
Focus Areas:-
Built Environment
Utilities
Public Realm
Urban planning and Redevelopment
Urban Transport and Mobility
Smart City
AMRUT
Solid Waste Management
Master Plans
Community Based Planning
Architecture and Urban Design
Institutional Capacity Building
Geographic Information System
Riverfront Development
Local Area Planning
ICT”
“Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.”
“Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.”
Source: Mixing Messages
“Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.”
“Urban Secrets - Be Kind to Your Skin”
“Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.”
“Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.”
“Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.”
“Urbana Properties manages luxury apartment rentals in NYC facing central park in exclusive areas such as 5th Ave, Upper East Side, Central Park in Manhattan. Discover our spacious luxury NYC apartment rental floorplans, central park views, private floors and white glove service.”
“Urbanisation is not a crisis but an opportunity, seeing it as a crisis is wrong. And not just villages, we want everyone to get opportunities wherever they are staying. Aatma gaav ki ho aur suvidha sheher ki ho, this is what we believe.”
“Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?”
Source: The Situationists and the City: A Reader
“Urbanity provides us with so many ways to avoid people. Isn't that what distinguishes it from traditional rural life, where the onus, perhaps because it was difficult & rare, was more on greeting people?”
Source: How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
“URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.”
Source: Collected Works
“Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.”
“Urdimos tramas, dibujamos caricaturas, parodiamos, para encontrar algo de vida entre los muertos. Cantamos en un idioma que ignorábamos, y dos o tres palabras y toda la melodía y el ritmo y la intensidad nos suministraron historias mucho mejores que la original, casi siempre distintas, pero no equivocadas; intuíamos la canción, y las palabras contenían legendarias resonancias, parecían estar dichas para uno. Éramos minúsculos, provincianos pero también adivinos.”
Source: El idioma imposible
“Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.”
“Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day. Pray for the cessation of immoderate rains, for good weather for Battle.Pray for the defeat of our wicked enemy whose banner is injustice and whose good is oppression. Pray for victory. Pray for our Army, and Pray for Peace. We must march together, all out for God.”
“Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.”
Source: penelopeia, a wife's enduring love
“URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.”
“Urgency and despair don't get along well.”
Source: The Obelisk Gate
“Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.”
Source: Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap
“Urgency is insecurity.”
“Urgency makes the difference between practitioners, proclaimers and procrastinators.”
“Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.”
“Urgent cash loans are financial service that offered quick cash help to all types of the borrowers at the time of sudden monetary downfall. The applicant can easily gain the desired amount of cash help from this loan to sort out their numerous monetary difficulties easily within the time. The funds avail from this loan will assist the borrowers to tackle their various troubles such as paying of home rent, school fee, tuition fee, numerous pending bills and many others.”
“Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.”
Source: The History Of the Renowned Don Quixote De la Mancha
“Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.”
“Urges ... every man has urges. But the true measure of man is to admit them, to learn to control them. The Shield used to refer to themselves as the most dominant force in our universe. But that ain't the way I remember it. They fell victim to the faults of men. Their lust and greed and valor for glory, it led them right down in the pit, where they belong. Tonight, they'll burn for it. For I am no man. I am reborn. Our bond can never be broken, and our urges can never be satisfied.”