U Quotes
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“Uncertainty is what we know as TIME. Time is controlled in direct ratio to your certainty.”
“Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.”
“Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.”
Source: The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century
“Uncertainty makes people afraid even when it is logically clear and reasonable. Thus, old fame familiar to them assures the people better even if it doesn't make any sense...”
“Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.”
Source: It's Been a Good Life
“Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.”
“Uncertainty within thyself may lead to a vigorous destruction in your life...”
“Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection”
“Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.”
Source: Eurydice, a tragedy. Mustapha, a tragedy
“Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real self. Just that. That’s all the legacy you’re here to give - the genuine best of you.”
“Unchallenged affirmation from those who accept an incomplete story harms her. Hidden truths remain concealed as she refutes all other claims.”
Source: Calling Out the Shadows: A Father's Stand Against the Current: Clarity over comfort. Transparency over secrecy. Structure over spin. Love over anger.
“Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.”
Source: Critical Path
“Unchangeable Things in Life, it is Easy to Accept Them.”
“Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.”
Source: Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution: Selected Essays, 1977-1992
“Uncharted territory,” I said. “The parts on the maps of our lives that we don’t understand. In cartographer’s language they call these places sleeping beauties.”
Source: The Love We Share Without Knowing
“Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the ability to perceive, in silence, the call of reality, and to make, in the retreat of this silence, the decision appropriate to the concrete situation of concrete action.”
“Unchecked biases, fear and prejudice, revert consciousness into compost.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.”
“Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.”
“Unchecked, government social programs are a security threat because they weaken the ultimate line of defense: the free-born citizen whose responsibilities are not subcontracted to the government.”
Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.”
Source: Lectures on Calvinism
“Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.”
“Unclaimed or abandoned bodies. There could be no stronger definition of loneliness.”
Source: A Line Intersected
“Unclasp the thought of leaving, tie it to the door.”
Source: What Kind of Woman: Poems
“Uncle Burt’s round face, mixing bowl bangs of greying blond locks and toothless smile made him look more like an emoticon than a judge.”
Source: Absolute Intolerance
“Uncle Chen's laugh was gentle, and he looked at the young man with pity and affection. "Remember, from the beginning of history till now, we have had only one society: a society based on the law of the jungle."
Kaizong wanted to bring up more evidence for his position, but he knew, deep down, that Uncle Chen had a better handle on the truth. It wasn't a truth written down in books, but something rooted deeply in the soil, tested by blood and fire.”
Source: Waste Tide
“Uncle Fan had busied himself making lots of míngqì to bury them with—soft baby lambs and tiny ponies and wise teachers. They will be well taken care of, where they’re going, he’d said. My cousins grew smaller and smaller, skin tight across their bones, somehow looking younger even though their faces were wrinkled from thirst.”
Source: The Scarlet Alchemist
“Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.”
“Uncle Jace says we will kill all the demins,” he reported with joy. “All the demins!”
“Well, have you considered that your uncle Jace is a hurtful person?” said the demon. “Always rudely stabbing everyone, and sarcastic.”
Max scowled. “Love Uncle Jace. Hate demins.”
Source: The Land I Lost
“Uncle Jeb," we croaked in surprise. "You found us." "Well, now," he said, and his gruff voice brought back a hundred memories. "Well, now, here's a pickle.”
“Uncle Jeff insisted that I also take a tray of unseasoned barbecue, so I could see for myself that what's going on here at the Skylight Inn does not in any way, shape, or form depend for it's flavor or quality on "sauce." That is a word he pronounces with an upturned lip and a slight sneer, suggesting that the use of barbecue sauce was at best a culinary crutch deserving of pity and at worst a moral failing.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.”
“Uncle Mort glanced at Pandora, then back at the Juniors. "Okay, kids. Brace yourselves. And try not to yell too much."
Elysia's hand tensed on Lex's arm. "I hate it when he says that," she whispered.
Uncle Mort gave them a sympathetic smile. "Remember that old chestnut about the wickedest Grim of all time?"
He pounded on the roof. Grotton's head popped down through the ceiling, a snaky grin stretching from ear to ear.
The screams were so loud, Dora nearly drove into a tree”
Source: Rogue
“Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!”
“Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.”
Source: Wolf Whistle
“Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.”
“Uncle Sam is not often called a fool in business matters, yet he has sold millions of acres of timber land at two dollars and a half an acre on which a single tree was worth more than a hundred dollars. But this priceless land has been patented, and nothing can be done now about the crazy bargain.... a bad, black business from beginning to end.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me."”
“Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.”
Source: The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories
“Uncle Yuichi: Something's moving up there? Hmm... I don't see anything. It was probably a satelite.
Punpun (with gums flapping): Could I have discovered a new planet?!
(long pause)
Yuichi: Yes! This could be a great discovery! If it really is a new planet... It'll be called Planet PunPun!
Punpun (slobbering again): Do you think I'll win the Nobel Prise?!
Yuichi: You sure are a greedy kid.”
Source: Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
“Unclean life is ungodliness.”
“Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.”
“Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers in Kafka's strange families batten on their sons, lying on top of them like giant parasites. They not only prey upon their strength, but gnaw away at the sons' right to exist. The fathers punish, but they are at the same time the accusers. The sin of which they accuse their sons seems to be a kind of original sin.”
“Uncleanness is the works of the sinful nature.”
“Unclear it is, what awaits us… but reveals all, the Force does, hm?”
“Unclench your fists. Lower your shoulders. Step away. Then come back with a clear head, redouble your efforts. I believe in you.”
“Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.”
Source: Folly as It Flies
“Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.”
“Unclutch! Radiate awareness, energy and
intelligence.
When you completely unclutch,
tremendous awareness, energy and
intelligence happens in your system
- HDH Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramahashivoham , in the book "Living Enlightenment" .”
“Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.”