Best universal & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive exercise -- as when everybody had embraced the constitution and everyone saw his interest protected by the constitution -- I think it would have been a rallying exercise. We are not there at this stage”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Interest Saws Violence Stage Acceptance Exercise Universal Constitution Protected Continuing Likelihood Rallying

Author:Kofi Annan

“Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.”

Thinking World Whole Earth Beautiful Cities Poet Universal Whole World Admiration Scream Princess Sailor Merchants Diplomats Beautiful Places Istanbul Westerners Northerners

Author:Edmondo De Amicis

“My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.”

Thinking Heart Long Feelings Night Literature Sleep Grief My Heart Universal Wake Up Shock Waking All Night Assassination Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“I think people are universal.”

People Thinking Universal

Author:Ang Lee

“Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?”

Ifs Thinking World Needs War Moments Humanity Asks Force Nations Differences Forget Common This World Members Universal Threat Obsession Aliens Aspiration Antagonism

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.”

Thinking Together Differences Race Universal Similarity

Author:Bill Cosby

“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.”

“"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.”

Thinking Needs Trying Today Life Is Positive Thinking Depends Universal Crisis Life Is Like Sewers Times Of Crisis Trying Times

Author:Tom Lehrer

“I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and discrimination has been pretty much abolished there isn't the sort of universal mandate that a black leader would have. Black folks live in a wide variety of social situations right now.”

Thinking Needs Has Beens Social Bits Black Situation Leader Right Now Universal Folks Wide Myth Discrimination Variety Segregation Mandates

Author:John Legend

“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.”

Thinking Knows Feels Art Artist Order Universal Significance

Author:David Cronenberg

“I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.”

Thinking Men World Helping Past Perfect Opinion Atheism Judging Type Personality Universal Intention Positive Atheism Supreme Attributes Perfect Man

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.”

Thinking Church Religious Issues Universal Structure Redemption

Author:Kathleen Turner

“I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.”

Thinking Art Artist Difficult Creativity Poet Flow Universal

Author:Alex Grey

“Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.”

Thinking Mind Littles Universal Beaten Vulgar Scorn Benevolence Eccentric Authorship Great Minds Little Minds

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.”

Thinking Dream Language Results Students Materials Universal Appreciation Sentiments Avarice Misuse

Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

“Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?”

Thinking Humans Spirit Force Behinds Sun Dog Universal Creator Tides Primal Great Spirit

Author:Barbara Holland

“I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.”

Thinking Writing Believe Ideas Order I Believe Sound Pay Attention Identity Universal Dramatic Truthful Universality Dramatic Writing

Book:Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

Source: Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

“Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. I try to shift the frame in which people think about poetry from being distant or "sacred" to being more human, because then I think it becomes easier to feel like poetry belongs to us, is for us, is from us.”

People Thinking Feels Trying Humans Easier Universal Sacred Poetry Is

Author:Sarah Kay

“I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.”

Thinking Different Force Born Universal Sexuality Boards Patriarchy Variance

Author:Eve Ensler

“Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.”

Thinking Trying Shows Actors Skills Universal Soldier Improving Cant Always Trying Laurels

Author:Scott Adkins

“I think there is sort of a general universal perception of me or someone who looks like me, as someone who is kind of menacing, dark or mysterious.”

Thinking Looks Kind Dark Perception Universal Like Me Mysterious

Author:Steven Bauer

“I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.”

Thinking Beautiful Language Universal Cinema Components Universal Language

Author:Paolo Sorrentino

“Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.”

People Thinking I Can Language Sports Building Universal Bridges Universal Language

Author:Sebastian Coe

“I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.”

Thinking Knows Heart Spirituality Awareness Creation Ultimate Universal Embrace Domain Ultimate Truth

Author:Deepak Chopra

“When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.”

Thinking Men Way Realizing Leader Feminism Universal Intimate Allies

Author:Gloria Steinem

“UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.”

Thinking Mind Humans May Language Particular Universal Determined Devices Faculty Yield Human Mind Interaction Components Grammar Innate Acquisition Characterization Language Acquisition

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.”

Thinking Should Firsts Doe Ability Pay Principles Universal Determine Committed Critical Access Medical

Author:Stephen Harper

“The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As long as, one more time going to back to the thematic, as long as you're truthful to that thematic, you can trust that that is going to transcend.”

Thinking Persons Long Important Humanity Universal More Time Truthful Relatable Thematic

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.”

Thinking Humans Use Values Term Moral Morality Universal Landscape Framework Human Values

Author:Sam Harris

“I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Culture Principles Violence Racism Universal Currents Tendencies Recognise Propensity

Author:Sam Harris

“The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Believe Law Energy Forget Accepting Universal Rose Golf Garbage Forget It Stand Alone Playing Golf Universal Laws

Book:Affirmations

Source: Affirmations

“Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.”

Thinking Heart Country States United United States Universal Empires Fringe

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.”

Thinking World Moving Objects Universal Aim Appearance Thoughtful Sensible Timeless

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Now think about the Universal Law. It reflects to you exactly and precisely what you put out. If your thought-forms say, "I haven't got a clue about what I want," the Universal Law is going to say, "Listen, mate, if you haven't got a clue, neither have I.”

Ifs Thinking Want Form Law Havens Universal Manifestation Mates Clue Universal Laws

Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some

Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some

“Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. Even if it means having to be a little silly or cheeky, I think it is worth it.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Littles Universal Silly Worth It Cheeky

Author:Sarah Kay

“People never regret when they come out of a movie and they've been crying. I think people need it. That's why people have the theater and live music, which is dwindling as well. I think people like to go see things and have an emotional, transcendent, universal human experience, but so often we're like, "Let's go watch Green Lantern," which we all know is just not going to do anything for our souls.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Humans Wells Soul Watches Cry Emotional Regret Universal Theater Green Human Experience Transcendent Lanterns Never Regret Live Music Green Lantern

Author:Daniel Gillies

“I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.”

Thinking Knows Simple Eating Universal Good Things Chef Universal Truth

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.”

Thinking Pain Joy Felt Universal Urges

Author:John Green

“I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to communicate with everybody; I'd like to do something universal, I'd like to have the hit record of the world. But that's not the same as being equal.”

People Thinking World Records Equal Universal Communicate Being Equal

Author:Patti Smith

“Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Writing Audience Clear Universal Nonsense Elegant Transparent

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with.”

Thinking Feels Writing Littles Sometimes Hard Moments Feelings Dream Able Felt Bits Loss Nice Tree Little Bit Universal Relate

Author:Dave Matthews

“The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.”

Thinking World Order Term Struggle Conflict Universal Inevitable Anarchy Conferences World Order Disarmament Focal Point Armed Conflict

Author:Arthur Henderson

“I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.”

Thinking Certain Choices Universal Decades Timeless Choices You Make

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

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