U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.”
“Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.”
“Unavailable wars are always just.”
“Unavoidable pain for inevitable gain is supporting the preparation of the soul to love another in completeness of mind, body and heart by acknowledging that its process of transformation will not be unmarked by thorns.”
“Unavoidably and in many cases, sadly, the woman artist must grope her way through the emotional cesspool of her own outrage, her fear, and her anxiety at being treated on the whole as a member of a stereotyped group in society rather than being recognized as an individual. All the problems of the creative lifestyle are doubly difficult and doubly debilitating because as an artist she must first establish herself as a person. Her view of the world, her concern for others, her drive for the tangible creative expressions of the images in her mind are tangled with these negative, frustrating emotions which by their very nature drain her creative powers.”
Source: Just This Side of Madness: Creativity and the Drive to Create
“Unawakened life is the cause of stress. Stress creates acidic-body, the cause of all dis-eases, Important work=process stress.”
Source: BE INSPIRED: 365 Inspiring Thoughts
“Unaware about my surrounding, unconscious I live, for I am in oblivion.”
Source: मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]
“Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.”
“Unawareness may cause misfortune, for the time being; however, ignorance certainly executes lifelong damage, to all dimensions of career and future.”
“Unaweza kusaliti nchi kwa sababu za kiitikadi, kisiasa, matatizo ya akili, au pesa. Ukifanya hivyo na ukabainika; utawajibika kwa adhabu ya kifo, au maisha.”
“Unaweza kuwa umeomba kuhusu jambo fulani kwa muda mrefu bila majibu, lakini siku moja ghafla ukajibiwa wakati umejisahau. Kwa nini? Kwa sababu Mungu hufanya kazi zake kwa siri. Ukiomba jambo kutoka kwa Mungu, huku ukiwa huna kinyongo na mtu yeyote na bila moyo wako kusita wakati ukiomba, tambua katika moyo wako kwamba tayari umeshajibiwa. Kisha lipotezee, hilo jambo, kila siku, usiwe unalikumbukakumbuka, hadi Mungu mwenyewe atakapokujibu. Hata Yesu atakaporudi kila mtu atakuwa amejisahau.”
“Unbalance so as to re-balance.”
Source: Notes on the Cinematograph
“Unbalanced Returns: Financial results that are disproportionate to the activity”
“Unbalanced?”
She nodded vehemently as she lifted her hips to meet the thrust of his fingers.
“Insane. P-positively mad.” She opened bleary, lust-hazed eyes to spear him with vibrant blue. “What are you doing to me?”
He captured her mouth in a heavy, drugging kiss, using his free hand to undo the placket of his trousers. “Loving you,” he whispered against her lips. He stroked his fingers inside her, shuddering along with her as she clenched once, tellingly, around him.
“Just loving you, Moira.”
Source: Wild Burn
“Unbearable pain delivers unthinkable ascension.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“Unbearable pain that is expressed and acknowledged becomes bearable. But borderlines received no such responses in their childhood. Therefore, they are stuck in the past, trying to elicit what they needed as a child—validation of their unbearable pain.”
Source: Understanding the Borderline Mother
“Unbeatable. The beat goes on.”
“Unbecome everything that's not helping you become your best self”
“Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.”
“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
“Unbeknown to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such. Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
But on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her involvement as a potential rope out of hell.”
Source: My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
“Unbeknown to her, that Louisiana background secretly intimidated my urgency to drop to a knee and produce a ring. Or maybe, I wanted to see her raise a chicken from the dead. Rumors had assured me, her tribe was capable of voodoo, spells, and such. Well, those were my on-going issues toward matrimony.
But on the other hand, Deya couldn’t wait to meet the kin folks. Yes, I knew what visions of family meant to her, butsadly, I wasn’t it. Still, I had to risk her involvement as a potential rope out of hell.
Meantime, we pressed onward to my dreaded hometown. I must have counted all the hog farms, catfish ponds, livestock yards, and chicken barns along our route. Being a country boy, I knew the smells, stinks, and how to identify them all. Yet dealing with my relatives and the death of Aunt Kathy were different kinds of shit to take in.”
Source: My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
“Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead.”
“Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.”
“Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.”
“Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.”
“Unbeknownst to most fun-loving bipeds, not all stress is bad. Indeed, the New Rich don't aim to eliminate all stress. Not in the least.”
“Unbeknownst to us, one day our paths will cross for the final time—never to cross again.”
“Unbelief does nothing but darken and destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine footsteps are heard, where no angels ascend and descend, where no living hand adorns the fields, feeds the birds of heaven, or regulates events.”
“Unbelief is a belief.”
“Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies the selfsufficiency of God and usurps attributes that are not his. This dual sin dishonors God and ultimately destroys the soul of man.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.”
“Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another.”
“Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.”
Source: Following Christ
“Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.”
“Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.”
Source: A Life of Miracles: 365-Day Guide to Prayer and Miracles
“Unbelief is the greatest of sins.”
Source: Summa Theologica (All Complete & Unabridged 3 Parts + Supplement & Appendix + interactive links and annotations)
“Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.”
Source: Gems from Spurgeon; or, Extracts from the note-book of a non-professional reporter
“Unbelief is thinking, feeling, speaking, and believing you don’t have something that God said you have”
Source: Faith Secrets: Learn How to Please God With Your Faith
“Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.”
“Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.”
“Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.”
Source: The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir
“Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.”
Source: The Present Truth: A Collection of Sermons Preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle
“Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
“Unbelievable and true. Anna Solokov is neither a frightened girl nor a criminal spider in the center of a huge web of drugs and god knows. No, that dangerous young woman could easily do both at different times, and to different people. No doubt that is part of George’s attraction to her. She is victim. Yet when necessary, or when it suits her, she is victimizer. Does he imagine he is battling for her soul?”
Source: Murder on Family Grounds
“Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.”
Source: What to Eat
“Unbelievable,” Audrey’s voice squeaked as I pushed past her. “Here we are, talking to you about your freaky little-boy encounter back in Breaux Bridge and how your caramel macchiato tasted like cardboard, and boom! You just zone out like one of the kids from Children of the Corn.”
“Um, Aud, babe … I don’t think those kids zone out. They’re just freaky twenty-four-seven. It’s a year-round thing.” Gabe’s response drew a half-hearted laugh from me, but it was quickly reined in when I reached the Book of the Ancients.
“Whatever, Gabriel,” Audrey said to him. “My point is, it’s freaky, okay? She gets this glazed-over look in her eyes, like she’s gonna whip out a butcher knife and go all Michael Myers on us or something.”
I glanced over my shoulder to cock an eyebrow at her.
“Oh, now you pay attention.” She cocked an eyebrow back.
“What is it with you and the cheesy horror-movie references?” Gabe muttered.
“Hey, now. Halloween is a classic,” Gavin scolded him. “Don’t go hating on the classics.”
Source: The Tragedy of Knowledge
“Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.”