U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.”
“Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.”
“Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.”
“Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.”
Source: The Garden Primer
“Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.”
“Unfortunately, in this Obama Government, we have charges of drug trafficking and terrorism. For Evo, it's drug trafficking. For Hugo, it's terrorism. Evo Morales, drug trafficking. Hugo Chavez, terrorism.”
“Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.”
Source: Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State
“Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.”
“Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.”
“Unfortunately, it does take pain to wake us up sometimes.”
“Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.”
“Unfortunately, it is all too often true that suppressors to a creative action must be removed before construction and creation takes place. Any person very high on the Tone Scale may level destruction toward a suppressor.”
“Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.”
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola.”
“Unfortunately, it's not that it's not impossible for us to develop Final Fantasy 7 for mobile. It's that currently, space will be an issue. Phones won't be able to contain the space it takes. It's over a gigabyte. People are probably going to have to wait a few years.”
“Unfortunately, it's possible to be able to do something extremely well that nobody ever wants done.”
“Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.”
“Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were supposedly truing to help - the poor and destitute.”
“Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.”
“Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story.The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain's understanding.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic.”
Source: Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be
“Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.”
“Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.”
“Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.”
“Unfortunately, many of our churches calibrate their life to these nominal Christians. The predictable result is that you get fake, hypocritical churches that confuse the message of the gospel and make it hard for others who are trying to do genuine evangelism.”
“Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.”
Source: Yeager: An Autobiography
“Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to take over the direction of their spiritual lives and who will tell them what to do and how to think. A guide or a counselor is understandable, as in sports or music or in any pursuit, but that is not enough. Many mistakenly believe they have to be led each step of the way.”
“Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.”
“Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes are in direct contrast with over half of todays American families.”
“Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.”
Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman”
“Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.”
“Unfortunately, money is more often misused and abused than used intelligently. Most people haven't figured out how to use money wisely to truly enhance their lives. Most, it seems, act rationally with their money only when they can't dream up any more irrational ways to spend it. To be sure, financial insanity has developed its own big following including you and me.”
“Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.”
“Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.”
“Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.”
“Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.”
“Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.”
“Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.”
“Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.”
“Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.”
“Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.”
“Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.”
Source: Thinking in Pictures
“Unfortunately, most products are full of plastic and silicones and parabens and things that are really not good for us but they give that silky finish.”
“Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA.”
“Unfortunately, my army consists of one unreliable criminal, one girl with a disability, and one incredibly foolish young vampire with a tanning issue. I am not confident.”
Source: Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires
“Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.”
“Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment”
“Unfortunately, my ideas are not what you'd call commercial, and money really drives the boat these days. So I don't know what my future is. I don't have a clue what I'm going to be able to do in the world of cinema.”