U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Under no circumstances should you ever fall for the seductive attraction of self-pity! Acting like a victim threatens who you truly are. You are braver than you believe, tougher than you appear, and smarter than you think! Therefore, let your dreams be greater than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings.”
“Under no circumstances should you lose hope.”
Source: How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
“Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.”
“Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.”
“Under no circumstances will any supporter try to tell me what I should do. That is why I have the track record that I have got.”
“Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community.”
“Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion.”
“Under no condition do you need to piddle away any time attempting to explain who you are to those wankers who act as if they’ve pledged to misinterpreting your very existence.”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”
Source: Political writings
“Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.”
Source: Ghost stories
“Under normal circumstances the liar is defeated by reality, for which there is no substitute; no matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough, even if he enlists the help of computers, to cover the immensity of factuality.”
Source: Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
“Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.”
“Under normal circumstances, women go through a lot; and breast cancer compounds the situation of our daily lives. Supporting other women is paying forward and cementing part of my legacy in giving my time in helping others to either live a better life or reach their full potential.”
“Under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day.”
Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel
“Under normal conditions the research scientist is not an innovator but a solver of puzzles, and the puzzles upon which he concentrates are just those which he believes can be both stated and solved within the existing scientific tradition.”
Source: The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
“Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.”
“Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.”
“Under ordinary competitive conditions, any long and serious maladjustment between supply and demand cannot last.”
Source: Cartels in Action: Case Studies in International Business Diplomacy
“Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making.”
“Under our Constitution, presidents have something called 'veto power.”
“Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.”
“Under our institutions each individual is born to sovereignty. Whatever he may adopt as a means of livelihood, his real business is serving his country. He cannot hold himself above his fellow men. The greatest place of command is really the place of obedience, and the greatest place of honor is really the place of service.”
“Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul of the individual. I know of no way that this can be done save through the influence of religion and education. By religion I do not mean fanaticism or bigotry; by education I do not mean the cant of the schools, but a broad and tolerant faith, loving thy neighbor as thyself, and a training and experience that enables the human mind to see into the heart of things.”
“under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed”
Source: What I Loved: A Novel
“Under our plan you can build wealth, even if you don't have a dollar to spare.”
“Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.”
Source: Letters to a Young Man: And Other Papers
“Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.”
“Under our ribs
our hearts are bloody stars. Shine on
shine on, and horses in their galloping flight
strike the curve of ribs.”
Source: She Had Some Horses
“Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.”
Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Under our system of three branches of government, the courts ultimately are the checks on the legislative and executive branches when they exceed or even abuse the limits of their power.”
“Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!”
“Under patriarchal monotheism, womanhood was a life sentence of second-order existence.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”
“Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.”
“Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.”
“Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.”
Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.”
“Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?”
“Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.”
“Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again.”
“Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.”
“Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.”
“Under pressure, one of the most important things I have to remember to do is breathe.”
“Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.”
“Under pressure, you can win with your mind.”
“Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.”
Source: Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844
“Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.”