U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!”
“Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.”
Source: Leaving Home
“Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.”
“unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.”
Source: The Original Memoirs of Charles G. Finney
“Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.”
“Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions.”
Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.”
“Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.”
“Unless I love something or hate it, I don't want to deal with it.”
“Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.”
“Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.”
“Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.”
“Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.”
“Unless I was delirious from my injury, we had just been captured by vampires.
Who were they, and what did they intend to do with the rest of us?”
Source: Vampire's Bane
“Unless I work with Shah Rukh my career cannot be complete. I can't hang my boots till that happens.”
“Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.”
“Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.”
“Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.”
“Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!”
“Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.”
“Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.”
“Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.”
“Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.”
Source: A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers
“Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification.”
“Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.”
“Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.”
“Unless it directly involves you, do not be involved in other people’s business. It will rob you of the time you need to focus on your own business.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.”
Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“Unless it hurts, unless there’s some vulnerability there, I don’t think you’re going to get good photographs.”
“Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.”
“Unless it isn't fine, in which case you'll be worried The Perfect Amount. Not that worrying The Perfect Amount can do anything to help your situation re: The Tornado, but at least you will be panicking accordingly. But then again, it's probably nothing and you're more worried than you need to be.”
Source: That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
“Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.”
“Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.”
“Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.”
“Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.”
“Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.”
“Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.”
“Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.”
“Unless legal and illegal immigration is halted and reversed, European First World nations across all of Europe from Spain to Russia, North America, Australia and New Zealand - will be destroyed and have their very culture and civilisation changed to that of the Third World. Immigration is now the single most important issue facing all First World nations, and will determine whether Western Civilisation continues to exist or not.”
“Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere!”
“Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.”
Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy
“Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.”
“Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.”
Source: The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings
“Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.”
“Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.”
“Unless materials are specifically designed to ultimately become safe food for nature, composting can present problems as well.”
“Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.”