U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Unii oameni sunt născuți să se căsătorească, să facă copii și să trăiască fericiți până la adânci bătrâneti iar alții să devină filosofi." ~ Platon”
“Unilateral disarmament by Britain is opposed to our country's best interests, could begin the unravelling of NATO and therefore jeopardise the stability of Europe.”
“Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.”
“Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.”
“Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.”
Source: Slow Man
“Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.”
“Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.”
“Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa.”
“Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.”
“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but nevertheless the very dregs of human civilisation and moral standards. A historian who finds excuses for such conduct by references to the supposed spirit of the times, or by omission, or by silence, shows thereby that his account of events is not to be trusted.”
Source: The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
“Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.”
“Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.”
“Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.”
“Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.”
Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
“Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.”
“Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.”
Source: The Books of Ember Omnibus
“Uninvited criticism is insult.”
“Uninvited guests are often most welcome when they leave”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.”
Source: Three Hundred Æsop's Fables
“Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.
Falling in love
is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger ready to kill; a flame's fierce licks under the skin.
Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.
I hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone's face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me
as I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like a gift, like a touchable dream.
"You”
Source: Rapture
“Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions.”
Source: Dirty Truths
“Union gives strength to the humble.”
“Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.”
“Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.”
Source: The Interior Castle
“Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.”
Source: Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.”
“Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.”
Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
“Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but which, while it lasted, was free of the specific problems that bedevil the labor movement today when by force of circumstance it has been separated a few notches farther from the rank and file.”
Source: The Crisis of American Labor
“Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.”
“Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.”
“Union with God is the only heaven there is, and it begins here on earth.”
Source: A Tree Full of Angels
“Unionisation, of course, obstructs the extent to which employers are able to squeeze working people in their profit calculations, levelling the playing field between the single, powerful employer and the unified might of an organised workforce.”
Source: On Fairness
“Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.”
“Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.”
“Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.”
“Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.”
“Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than the staunchest unionist claims, could offer the rational worker no incentive to join; his individual efforts would not have a noticeable effect on the outcome, and whether he supported the union or not he would still get the benefits of its achievements.”
Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION
“Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.”
“Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.”
“Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.”
“Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.”
“Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.”
“Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.”
“Unions say, 'Education of the children is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market.' The opposite is true. Education is too important to be left to the calcified union/government monopoly.”
“Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.”
“Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.”
“Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.”
“Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful… You dont have to be like everybody else. In fact I don’t think you should.”