List of Topics starting with [U]

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are ...

Everyone comes with baggage. I just happen to be very good at unpacking.

Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe - a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known.

And I do not want a stranger - unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kidred: those with whom I have a full fellow-feeling.

Sometimes mothers of newborn babies have to take antibiotics for a urinary tract infection. The antibiotics can damage the protective stool barrier allowing C. diff ...

THE UNCANNY VALLEY

My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.

You can only love, it is impossible to unlove, as you can only drink but never can undrink.

God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.

Ah Maud, you milk-white fawn, you are all unmeet for a wife.

We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'.

Life rarely develops as we expect. People surprise us, sometimes in unpleasant ways. They don't always react as we hope they will or want them ...

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and ...

The cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality- the ...

For poor parents trapped in dangerous and underperforming urban school systems, it is pretty clear that school choice works.

He took a large tablet of beet sugar (an equivalent quantity of ordinary lump sugar does equally well) and soaked it in Angostura Bitters and ...

Mechanical reinterpretations of human affairs not only lack explanatory power, they are morally wrong as well, for in effect they deny the humanity of the ...

I think there are still unanswered questions about Benghazi. I think there are unanswered questions, and they could be easily answered. But I think they ...

The city is full of three types of people, the first being soldiers, the other classes are politicians and prostitutes, both very numerous, and about ...

If you know that I am genius Then know that you made me genius Everyone don't accept me as genius Because they aren't genius to ...

Honest communication is open, healing new and old wounds.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge ...

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will ...

Plot joined the expedition unwooed, as a necessary companion. It was not the scout. The scout was a certain mood. I followed that mood, and ...

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afarDrag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;Or on wide-waving wings expanded bearThe flying-chariot through the fields of ...

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to ...

Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone.

If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell ...

When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to ...

I'm actually not from the United States. I'm from Uzbekistan.

The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the

The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago.

You gotta be cool. That's all. Remain refrigerated.

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it ...

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren't. Love's the only thing in this world ...

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability ...

Togetherness has to do with focused attention. It is giving someone your undivided attention. As humans, we have a fundamental desire to connect with others. ...

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.

I was thinking about the word handle and all the unholdable things that got handled.

Who Am I?Why am I here?

Everything ungirt, artless, ardent, urgent about Louie was to the fore: all over herself she gave the impression of twisted stockings.

He has had his wish. He will not bow his head. [after a dragon chomped off someone's head]

A tardiness in nature,Which often leaves the history unspoke,That it intends to do.

Women are small and fragile ... yet the power they hold, is unmeasureable.

What I will always remember about Havana is the light...All I can see is the blinding light of Havana. It's burned into my retina. It ...

Player I would like to sign for Internazionale? It's easy, the strongest in Europe at the moment is Lionel Messi, so I would say him. ...

Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both ...

I like castles almost as much as I like museums. Centuries of bloodshed and betrayal and heartache, all under one roof. You just don't get ...

With no challenge to overcome, frontier to press, or threat to flee from, the humans of this millennium are overstuffed, overheated, and understimulated. The

When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I've understood, it ...

FACT: The black family (and the black male/black female relationship) was systematically DESTROYED by over 500 years of institutionalized slavery, racism, and racist media stereotypes. ...

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it ...

The human mind was a devious organ, however, and it chiseled in stone that which would be best left unrecalled.

The thing had been quite unpremeditated on my part. I had not even thought of her as a woman until she came into my arms ...

Some couples buy pots and pans when they move in together. Ulay and I began planning how to make art together.

Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards ... It's a magpie Christmas market.

Bono give you any terms?""Me, the Crusader, and you. Tonight."How nice. A party for the top three on the upir's most wanted list.

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who's crazy about that ...

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses ...

The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.

If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and come to you easily, without ...

It is an aphorism in physic, that unwholesome airs, because perpetually sucked into the lungs, do distemper health more than coarser diet used but at ...

God is unchangeable changer, unadjustable adjuster, unmoveable mover, unpredictable predictor, unstoppable stopper, uninvisible visible, and wonderful wonder

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

If a thinker throws off too many unsystematic and rich insights, there is no place to grab onto his thought. The thing he is trying ...

Weep not today: why should this sadness be?Learn in present fearsTo o'ermaster those tearsThat unhindered conquer thee.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground ...

Black Humor (Umor): a sensation --of the theatrical (and joyless) pointlessness of everything.

Unleashing a passion can transform a life ...

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

I don't object to the proliferation of the 'f-bomb' in screenplays because the adjective is vulgar but because it is unimaginative.

The feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt sand than does ...

I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense ...

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next ...

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

I save her marked-up manuscripts as an unluckier husband might save love letters.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy ...

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get ...

Good gravy on biscuits, girlfriend, you are in the middle of more messes than a platter of scrambled eggs. What's going on? Are the planets ...

At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were ...

Not only a great game, 'Uncharted 2' raised the bar for storytelling for the medium. The game treated action as a part of the overall ...

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while ...

New interfaces are most understandable when they build on what users (and audiences) already know.

Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.I stare at ...

A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet ...

She knew me beyond my actionsBeyond my shallow attempts at happiness.She knew I had darknessAnd when I undressedAnd showed her what I was made ofShe ...

As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. ...

The trustworthy postman dressed in khakhi uniform riding a bicycle has been an integral part of urban and rural landscape in India; I wonder if ...

But it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive - to some woman.