U Quotes
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“Ultimately, success is not measured by first-place prizes. It's measured by the road you have traveled: how you have dealt with the challenge and the stumbling blocks you've encountered along the way.”
“Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.”
“Ultimately, that is the definition of bravery: not being afraid of yourself.”
“Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.”
“Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994
“Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.”
“Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security.”
“Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather make the public good argument, which is not just about innovation or nurturing new companies that will add to the nation's GDP, it's actually about creating a democratic public sphere.”
“Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness.”
Source: Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World: Easyread Comfort Edition
“Ultimately, the disconnect with the earth we have going relates to a deeper sickness of losing touch with our souls, our bodies, our communities. The collective stories about what is happening need to change. We need to reclaim a sense that we have a say in how things go.”
“Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.”
“Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.”
“Ultimately, the film [Dream of Life] is inspirational.”
“Ultimately, the goal of hitting is to get your mind out of the way and let your body take over - and to slow the game down”
“Ultimately, the goal of personal Bible study is a transformed life and a deep and abiding relationship with Jesus Christ.”
Source: How to Study Your Bible
“Ultimately, the human being is in the mercy of nature.”
“Ultimately, the impresario must know when to simply get out of the way.”
“Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.”
“Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And we need to start with a new principle: Put the patient in the driver's seat. That's how we can build a healthy economy.”
“Ultimately, the main reason that you want more women in the sciences is the same reason you want more gay men in the sciences. It's the same reason you want more Latinos or African Americans; it's because if you come at a problem from a different perspective, you will be offering a creative vision that wasn't there before.”
“Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
“Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.”
“Ultimately, the only wealth that can sustain any community, economy or nation is derived from the photosynthetic process - green plants growing on regenerating soil.”
“Ultimately, the people [who] are going to help you make your film are the people who believe in you and believe in the story. And as long as you stick to your guns, hopefully what you come out with will be what you imagined.”
“Ultimately, the product you sell is love-manifested and materialized.”
Source: Nothing Down for Women: The Smart Woman's Quick-Start Guide to Real Estate Investing
“Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.”
Source: The Book of English Magic
“Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really interesting question. Personally, I don't think digital sounds good, but that's just my own feeling.”
“Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.”
Source: In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy
“Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.”
“Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.”
Source: Be a Circle Maker: The Solution to 10,000 Problems
“Ultimately, the transgender question is about more than just sex. It's about what it means to be human.”
“Ultimately, the wisest course for anybody who's afflicted with same-gender attraction is to strive to extend one's horizon beyond just one's sexual orientation, one's gender orientation, and to try to see the whole person.”
“Ultimately, theatre takes place in the minds of the audience: they all imagine the same thing at the same time.”
“Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.”
“Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.”
“Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness.”
“Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.”
“Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.”
“Ultimately, these fans that we're blessed enough to have, the ones who pay money for tickets to come see us live, that's the bread and butter. That's the basis of what this is. Before I ever had the chance to record an album, the live show is what it's been about.”
“Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Ultimately, though, it's living people that frighten me the most. It's always seemed to me that nothing could be scarier than a person, because as dreadful places can be, they're still just places; and no matter how awful ghosts might seem, they're just dead people. I always thought that the most terrifying things anyone could ever think up were the things living people came up with.”
Source: Hardboiled: & Hard Luck
“Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.”
Source: Close to Home
“Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.”
“Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.”
Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
“Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.”
“Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.”
Source: Designing Web Usability
“Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.”
“Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.”
Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination