Best Universal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.”

Looks Helping Brain Creativity Creative Perspective Universal Be Creative

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.”

Character Wanted Girl Nice Happened Scene Bed Universal Yeah Tied Being Nice Let Her Go

Author:Matthew McGrory

“I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.”

People Thinking Matter Lines Love Is Periods Universal Thread

Author:Rachel McAdams

“The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.”

Humans Stories Past Democracy Rights Universal Human Rights Terrorism Determined Iran Fascism Fundamentalism Reminders Democracy And Human Rights

Author:Azar Nafisi

“Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.”

Sound Universal Monsters Versions Disco Rave Monster Movie

Author:Mojo Nixon

“There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.”

Play Happens Felt Interesting Special Example Drink Universal Things Happen Proportion Ireland Special Things

Author:Ed O'Brien

“One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.”

Art Purpose Growth Universal Stupidity Contribution Indispensable Entropy Purpose Of Art

Author:William C. Brown

“The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.”

Mind Doe Philosophy Care Religion Known Knowing Particular Universal Unity Theme Vedanta

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.”

Love Law Love Is Unique Aspect Universal Mere Statements Tendencies Formulas Chemicals Laws Of Nature Electrical Affinity Gravitation

Book:Little Essays Toward Truth

Source: Little Essays Toward Truth

“As our planet takes action to cast out its manmade poisons and heal its man-caused wounds, many human inhabitants will no doubt give way to fear. Many will cling to seemingly powerful we're-God's-chosen-people religions, hoping that by so doing they will be saved from the wrath of a Vengeful God (not recognizing that the approaching "vengeance" will in reality be man's own actions coming back at him - and not recognizing that the Infinite Universal Power is far more than the narrow-minded gatekeeper of an exclusive Spiritual Country Club).”

“Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.”

Men Sun Tree Land Wind Universal Blessed Casts Seeds Soil Rooted Beam Emigration

Author:Robert Southey

“Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.”

Done Values Belief Causes Aspect Roots Hatred Universal Threat Jew Core Perceive Lasting Irrational Judaism Allegiance Representing Inexplicable Core Values Root Cause

Author:Dennis Prager

“I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.”

Feelings Hate Hair Universal

Author:Brie Larson

“Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.”

Giving Would Be Used Giving Up Universal Definitions Substance Acid Constituents Hydrogen Ions

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.”

People World Shows Bigs Language Simple Approach Creating Universal Attractive Big Things Universal Language Cirque Du Soleil

Author:Guy Laliberte

“Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.”

People Christianity Universal Western Indigenous Indigenous People Idiom

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.”

Firsts Film Crazy Stage Dad Shots Universal My Dad Studios Credit Actresses Grandmother Forty Contracts My Grandmother Universal Studios

Author:Chris Pine

“To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.”

Stories White Boys Universal Catchers Shuffle

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.”

Littles Different Play Natural Boys Failing Universal Distinction Rough Aggression Little Boys Natural Play

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.”

Needs Humans Pain Law Culture Kindness Universal Constant Hunger Details Absence Locals Beloved Predictable Exaltation Need Love

Book:The Brain-Dead Megaphone

Source: The Brain-Dead Megaphone

“In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.”

Universal Studios Universal Studios

Author:Kodi Smit-McPhee

“Be aware of the dark side of others that seek to interfere with our evolution. Keep distant and closed to such beings, recognizing that they are part of the universal process too, but not a part that we need to be open to at this time.”

Needs Process Sides Dark Evolution Universal Interfere Recognizing Dark Side

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.”

Inspirational Certain Belief Risk Atheism Acceptance Degrees Tasks Universal Illness Believer Spares Neurotic Agnosticism Neurosis

Author:Anatole France

“We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.”

Church Universal Mediocrity Nests Bosoms

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.”

Men Giving Suffering Universal Remedy Almighty Almighty God Opium

Author:Thomas Sydenham

“The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.”

Ifs Way Doe Important Character Literature Moral Reader Truth Is Universal Addresses

Author:Whitley Strieber

“There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.”

Built Universal Huts

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.”

Ifs Thinking Reason Issues Universal Western Catholicism Reviews Celibacy

Author:Pope Francis

“My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.”

Writing Firsts Song Records Written Tvs First Time Universal Albums Bus Promoting Living On Writing Songs Personal Experiences

Author:Kate Voegele

“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Has Beens Ideas Activity Universal Connected Empresses

Book:The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

Source: The Pictorial Key to the Tarot

“Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.”

People Thinking Feels Kind Made Said Remember Film Song Courses Language Periods Universal Make You Think Universal Language

Author:Scott Weiland

“I just had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and they loved it. And then they went back to tell me that Electric Circus, if it came out at today, it would've had a different reception. One of them told me, "Hey, man. You need to bring it out again." And I said, "Hey, it's cool. It is what it is."”

Ifs Men Needs Mind Said Different Today Universal Hey Journalist Electric Circus Mind Control Just Listen Reception It Is What It Is

Author:Will Ferrell

“Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.”

Love Humans May Mean Soul Love Is Dying Divine Source Eternal Hatred Universal Bounds One Love Divine Love Particles God Is Love Human Love Alone In Love Love Is Life

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.”

Seems Jobs Nations Cities Economic Universal Strategy Pursuit Recovery Administration Description Planners Economic Recovery

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.”

People Men Trying Has Beens Stories Political Numbers Events Circumstances Terrible Ordinary Universal Caught Theme Midst Caught Up Ordinary People Sierra Sierra Leone

Author:Edward Zwick

“Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.”

Form Order Energy Stars Grows Planets Civilization Universal Shining Plant Evolve Transformed Currency

Author:Vaclav Smil

“Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?”

Humans Universal Characteristics Waking Laziness Waking Life

Author:Louis Mackey

“Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity”

Humans Art Understanding Creativity Universal Manifestation Personal Experiences Art And Science

Author:Mae Jemison

“To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.”

Thinking World Way Humans Ends Film Wish Waiting Rooms Watches Drama Universal Intense Waiting Rooms

Author:Mick LaSalle

“The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.”

World Together Language Force Interest Powerful Common Teach Materials Benefits Universal Common Interests

Book:The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton

Source: The cosmos of Arthur Holly Compton

“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.”

Should Reason Enough Humanity Evolution Prove Equal Intellectual Capacity Universal Firm Heritage Reserves Anticipate Equal Power

Book:Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

Source: Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science

“Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.”

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Book:Lincoln Speeches

Source: Lincoln Speeches

“A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.”

Community Capable Universal Difficulty Charity Reign

Book:A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley

Source: A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley

“Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.”

Persons Used President Economy Huge Universal France Charisma Suffrage Universal Suffrage

Author:Francois Hollande

“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.”

Source: Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical

“The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.”

“War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the pornography of war.”

War Stories Universal Pornography Perversion War Stories

Author:John Rae

“I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.”

People Knows Wells Kind Fit Mass Universal Thoughtful Retiring Multiple Modest Murderer Bin Laden Unassuming

Author:Peter Bergen

“People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.”

People Feelings Sweet Universal Guilty Overindulgence

Author:Will Cotton

“I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.”

Way Stories Lost Sides Plans Crazy Universal Fearless Continuing Eclectic Soulful Unforgettable Eclectic Style

Author:Janelle Monae

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