U Quotes
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“Una vigna ben lavorata è come un fisico sano, un corpo che vive, che ha il suo respiro e il suo sudore.”
Source: The Moon and the Bonfire
“Una visione politica realmente globale richiede allora di abbracciare quello che definiamo un cosmopolitismo quotidiano, una cura promiscua su scala globale che porti la nostra visione della cura al di là delle strutture di parentela, delle comunità e degli stati fino alle zone più remote ed “estranee” del pianeta. I soggetti cosmopoliti, letteralmente i “cittadini del mondo”, sono quelli che hanno a cuore il mondo.”
Source: The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
“Una vita inquieta è più realistica di una morte facile.”
“Una vocación se puede entender como una llamada de Dios a hacer algo o, como yo diría más bien, una llamada de tu Sí mismo más profundamente nuclear.”
Source: Direction and Destiny in the Birth Chart
“Una volta aveva letto un romanzo d'amore che le aveva prestato la sorella. Non aveva capito niente di quelle emozioni e si era annoiata da morire. Era anormale? Il suo corpo e il suo cuore sarebbero stati eternamente sordi a quel genere di richiami?”
Source: Les Fiancés de l'hiver
“Una volta avevamo il tempo di cercare la pace. Oggi non più.”
Source: In Asia
“Una volta avvenuto il passaggio all’automazione, alla maggior parte delle persone non mancheranno gli addetti alla reception degli hotel e gli agenti di check-in delle compagnie aeree. Forse sarà persino difficile immaginare com’era interagire con gli umani per ricevere tali servizi di base.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“Una volta che si dice una bugia al mondo, bisogna continuare a mentire in eterno. Diventa necessario per far quadrare i conti. Non è affatto una cosa semplice, sia dal punti di vista psicologico che dal punto di vista pratico. Se qualcuno commettesse anche un solo errore, potrebbe essere fatale per tutti. Non lo pensa anche lei?”
Source: 1Q84 #1-2
“Una volta formato, un assistente conversazionale non biologico (a differenza di receptionist o concierge umani) non ti lascerà mai, quindi ha il potenziale di apprendere all’infinito.”
Source: Hotel Distribution 2050. (Pre)visioni sul futuro di hotel marketing e distribuzione alberghiera
“Una volta, il mio capitano disse che nella vita si incontrano persone che, crediamo, diventeranno nostri compagni di viaggio, ma poi le perdiamo per strada. Altre persone da cui non ci aspettiamo molto, invece, scalano montagne insieme a noi. Il mio capitano concludeva - solo quando il bere lo faceva diventare sentimentale- che è meglio non chiedere al destino che cosa ha in serbo per noi, o dove porta la nostra strada.
«Ti basti stare in viaggio per essere felice» diceva. «Tutte le strade portano a una sola destinazione.»”
Source: Tinder
“Una volta, mentre stavo leggendo al parco in una giornata ventosa, una folata aveva sfogliato le pagine, facendomi perdere il segno. Paul mi fece svolazzare il cuore come quelle pagine che si voltavano in fretta.”
Source: The Paris Library
“Una volta sposati non si discute più d'amore e, quando si sente il bisogno di dirne, l'animalità interviene preso a rifare il silenzio. Ora tale animalità può essere divenuta tanto umana da complicarsi e falsificarsi, ed avviene che, chinandosi su una capigliatura femminile, si faccia anche lo sforzo di evocarvi qualcosa che non c'è. Si chiudono gli occhi e la donna diventa un'altra per ridivenire lei quando si abbandona”
Source: La coscienza di Zeno / Senilità
“Una volta tanto mi lasciai andare, senza volermi sentire superiore alla mia felicità, senza volermi guardare dall'alto o essere più intelligente dei miei sentimenti.”
Source: The locked room
“Una volta una ammalata mi appioppò un sonoro ceffone. Il mio primo istinto fu quello di renderglielo. Ma poi presi quella vecchia mano e la baciai. La vecchia si mise a piangere.
«Tu sei mia figlia», mi disse.
E allora capii che cosa aveva significato quel gesto di violenza. Di fatto, non esiste pazzia senza giustificazione e ogni gesto che dalla gente comune e sobria viene considerato pazzo coinvolge il mistero di una inaudita sofferenza che non è stata colta dagli uomini.”
Source: L'altra verità: Diario di una diversa
“Una voz fuerte no puede competir con una voz clara, aunque esta sea un simple murmullo.”
“Una voz que hablaba de anclas, de rosas en asteroides solitarios, de kilómetros, de Peter Pan, de lunas compartidas, de una chica enredada y de un chico que terminó bajo un montón de escombros mientras ella rompía esos hilos, se liberaba y se convertía en una mariposa.”
Source: Nosotros en la Luna
“Una voz tan tibia y reconfortante como el chocolate”
Source: Heartless
“Una última cosa que quiero que sepas es que si algún día amaneciera nublado, te recordaría mirándome y ya no necesitaría del sol.
Te extraña y necesita de tus miradas,
Adam.”
Source: Cartas por el cielo
“Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.”
Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes
“Unabii ni uwezo alionao mtu wa kuongea mambo matakatifu ya Mungu, kuwaongoza wenzake katika njia njema. Mungu humwambia nabii kitu cha kusema na nabii huwambia wenzake kile ambacho Mungu amemwambia aseme. Mungu hawezi kuongea na watu mpaka watu wajue jinsi ya kuongea naye, na wakati mwingine ni rahisi sana kusikia ujumbe kutoka kwa mtu kuliko kuusikia ujumbe huo moja kwa moja kutoka kwa Mungu. Mungu anaweza kukwambia useme kitu fulani kwa mtu au watu fulani. Unaweza usijue kwa nini anakwambia ufanye hivyo, lakini utajisikia msukumo wa hali ya juu wa kutangaza ujumbe uliopewa kuuwasilisha. Mungu hatakulazimisha, lakini atakung’ang’aniza, na ni Mungu pekee anayejua lengo la mawasiliano hayo. Mungu akikwambia ufanye kitu fanya mara moja, usiulize kwa nini. Kazi yako ni kufanya unachotakiwa kufanya, kusema unachotakiwa kusema, si kuuliza maswali. Mtumie rafiki yako wa kiroho kukuongoza katika mema na mabaya, na usitambe – kwamba unaongea maneno uliyoambiwa na Mungu uyaongee. Ukiwa na uwezo mkubwa wa kuongea na Mungu utaleta mabadiliko katika dunia.”
“Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Unable, it seemed, to reach sex through love, I started upon a long quest in pursuit of love through sex.”
Source: My Father and Myself
“Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.”
“Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.”
“Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.”
“Unable to face the paltriness of our lives, it is simpler to bask in a fleeting pleasure dome than labor endlessly to create worthy secular testimonies demonstrating that a life well lived does in fact have intrinsic value. Regardless of what providence has in store, dense men such as me fritter away their lives hoping to capture eroticism’s delights. It is less taxing to rummage through the garbage dump picking amidst the trash heap of life’s inglorious scandals than it is to delve into penetrating our defensive shells.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.”
Source: Politics, people and places
“Unable to glimpse the divine truth in the destinies of mankind, of people in general, and tormented by my own dark ignorance, I was like a small, utterly helpless child. Feeling that there was something that I had to understand, I writhed impatiently and looked to God for help. And the Lord took pity on my ignorance and was not angry at my temerity but like a mother had compassion on me and was quick to respond. And this not once but over and over again. In like manner He had handled Job who suffered so much and protested so stormily.”
Source: On Prayer
“Unable to go forward, afraid to go back”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“Unable to handle the intensity of this man, my eyes quickly darted away, breaking eye contact. Only to land on his mouth. A very kissable mouth. Soft sculpted lips. I couldn't help but wonder what they would feel like against mine. Soft and giving or firm and aggressive.”
“Unable to help himself, he offered her a smile and stared into those eyes as he tapped his mouth. “I think you missed.”
Source: A Second Chance at Forever
“Unable to hold back a second longer, Blake reached out and cradled the side of her face, savoring the feel of that silky soft skin against his palm. His blood thrummed heavily through his veins when she sucked in a sharp breath and stared up at him with that mixture of hope and need that tied him in knots. “So what now?” he asked softly, rubbing his thumb gently across her cheekbone. “What do you want?”
“You. That’s it, Blake. There’s no riddle to decipher, no code to break. I want you.”
Staring deep into his eyes, she reached up and wrapped her fingers around his wrist, holding him there while she rubbed her cheek against his palm.
The tenderness in the gesture turned his heart over. Lust and satisfaction blasted through him. The painful pressure in his chest eased, relief sweeping aside the doubt and uncertainty. His gaze dropped to her mouth, a silent groan rumbling up inside him when her little pink tongue stole out to lick across her lower lip in a quick, almost nervous motion. Tightening his hand on her face, he wrapped his other arm around her waist and pulled her in close, until only an inch or two of space separated them.
“I want you too,” he murmured, and kissed her.”
Source: Extinguished
“Unable to imagine you will ever advance past the pencil line on the kitchen wall your mother has drawn to mark your height.”
Source: Underworld
“Unable to keep myself from temptation any longer, I reached up and ran my hand through his hair, which as much as he tried, never looked anything other than curly. I further melted into him when he started stroking my arm. Up and down, repeatedly, in sweet sensual delight. I tried to steady my breathing by taking deep, measured breaths. I refused to let him know just how much his touch was effectual and tantalizing.”
Source: Knot a Liar
“Unable to live a life with joy and freedom in it, some people try to snuff out whatever other expressions of joy and freedom they see around them. If you can't have a soul yourself, some people seem to think, then destroy those who do have souls.”
Source: A Life With Dogs
“Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs”
“Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad
interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they
were unable to do themselves. In fact, the pressure that induced Congress to
enact the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 did not come from reformers bemoaning
abuses by the powerful railroad interests; it came from the railroad interests
themselves, asking Congress to shield them against the harsh winds of
competition.”
Source: The BUSINESS END of Government
“Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.”
Source: Pascal's Pensees
“Unable to perceive the shape of You,
I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
It humbles my heart,
For You are everywhere.”
Source: The Walled Garden of Truth: The Hadiqa
“Unable to record their stories, they told tales of bravery and battles, around blazing fires, and sang songs about bountiful harvests and village heroes as they went about their daily work. These stories and songs were passed down from generation to generation, preserving their history, keeping memories alive.”
Source: Lanark County Calling: All Roads Lead Home
“Unable to rid myself of it, since I heard your song humming ever in my head, beheld your feet dancing always on my breviary, felt even at night, in my dreams, your form in contact wih my own, I desired to see you again, to touch you, to know who you were, to see whether I should really find you like the ideal image which I had retained of you, to shatter my dream, perchance with reality. At all events, I hoped that a new impression would efface the first, and the first had become insupportable. I sought you. I saw you once more. Calamity! When I had seen you twice, I wanted to see you a thousand times, I wanted to see you always. Then - how stop myself on that slope of hell? - then I no longer belonged to myself.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Unable to sleep and in despair, [former Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown] reflected on previous generations who had lain awake at the witching hour - the soldiers in trenches, the women in the pains of childbirth. He chastises himself for lying awake worrying about being tired the next day, for being anxious about his ability to perform in a maiden speech.”
Source: On Sleep
“Unable to sleep for the third night in a row, he continued to dwell obsessively on the circumstances of the ship's sinking. He could not get the creature out of his mind.”
Source: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
“Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand
by the window looking out
at moonstruck trees a December storm
has bowed with ice.
Maple and mountain ash bend
under its glassy weight,
their cracked branches falling upon
the frozen snow.
The trees themselves, as in winters past,
will survive their burdening,
broken thrive. And am I less to You,
my God, than they?”
Source: Collected Poems
“Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.”
“Unable to transcend ego, to be naked inside and out, or being left alone because passion is burnt out and "when it is burnt out it is over in an instant," the men use violence - capture, murder, violent revenge. Alienated because of their self-absorption, their thoughts of women are saturated with violence; they dream of violence when they think of the woman they want.”
Source: Intercourse
“Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.”
“Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path.”
“Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation. Our ability to protect our families is at stake.”