List of Topics starting with [U]

Although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of ...

Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some ...

A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.

Instead we are tapped into an unquenchable, undepletable, inexhaustible source of wisdom, consciousness, companionship. Yeah, we lose friends. But we find friends too, in places ...

I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and ...

This is me.'" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. 'Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What ...

By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting ...

What's lemonade? Something you make out of lemons. And what's a crusade? Something you make out of crosses - a course of gratuitous violence motivated ...

Wheresoe'er I turn my view,All is strange, yet nothing new:Endless labor all along,Endless labor to be wrong:Phrase that Time has flung away;Uncouth words in disarray,Trick'd ...

When do you think people die? When they're shot through the heart with a pistol? ... No. When they have an uncurable disease? ... No. ...

Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."Work?" Tally said.They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.

Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men.

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

It suddenly seemed to Laurel that all the absences in her own life, every loss and sadness, every nightmare in the dark, every unexplained melancholy, ...

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.

In an industry that has the capacity underutilization that we have, why wouldn't we? It's just common sense. Apparently they're successful (in Canada). Our standard ...

I am as oneWho doth attempt some lofty mountain's height,And having gained what to the upcast eyeThe summit's point appear'd, astonished seesIts cloudy top, majestic ...

I try to be really hippie about things. I'm uptight in all the ways that are really important, but the things my husband and family ...

Marking and underscoring a book makes it more

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to ...

The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he ...

I have to drink this much to be as unfunny as you.

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch ...

For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and ...

Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the ...

The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're ...

There's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

Stay safe. Stay alive. Stay unreanimated.

We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its ...

I feel lost and confused, but happy and certain. I am like a ball of tangled yarn. The parts that are untangled are available, useable; ...

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let ...

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless ... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to ...

Overthinking is often a product of underdoing.

A stick is not only wood but the negation of wood. It is the meeting in space of wood and no-wood. A stick is finite ...

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates ...

Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it ...

Unni had a very serious problem. He had this artistic objection to the heart symbol. He said it doesn't look like a heart, he said ...

I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.

You were not merely a person unjustly accused of espionage, but someone who dared to challenge certain customs. And for that you could not be ...

Like the bottom of a lake, the trees trapped a cold reminder that the sun struggles to touch all parts of the earth equally.

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and ...

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the industrialist and prodigious art collector. It is said that he liked to wander through his gallery at night in quiet ...

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and ...

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn ...

[Speaking of marriage and family] In this entire world there is not a more perfect, more complete image of God, Unity and Community. There is ...

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would ...

South Tampa is the polyp of land that dangles into Tampa Bay like a uvula.

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ...

Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.

No offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. ...

But in the slow, attentive reading demanded by unpunctuated texts, the faculty of hearing has its chance, is enhanced until the text speaks itself.

The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are ...

Teen uk'al k'iinam. Teen uk'al yah. I drink your ache. I drink your pain.

Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

To be the ultimate team, you must use your body and your mind. Draw up on the resources of your teammates. Choose your steps wisely ...

I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. ...

As a woman, you don't have really much freedom of choice in the Middle East - very often, by the time they are 13 or ...

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a ...

Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do ...

The '60s was a time of unthinkabilities.

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may ...

Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

You arrogant, apish, underhonest lewdster! (Maggie)

Yes, but . . ." She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. "I survived because I fell in love." With you was unspoken.

He adjusted his body in relation to hers. His head angled down, his hand forming a canopy between them to shield her face from the ...

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and ...

Reading makes you impudent. Oh yes, unknown father, so it does.

As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in ...

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.

Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts ...

I'm not sure exactly. Against what, Addie?" Laila asks with a smirk. "Against unnormalcy. Antiaverageness.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. ... He's at his best when he ...

One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your ...

The whole process of writing is a setting at a distance. That is the value of it - to the writer, and to the people ...

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, ...

I do wish you'd break the careless habit of using the word American as if you had stolen it from the rest of us. Use ...

They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.

Love is hard. It's forgiving your best friend when you want to shove her away.

I don't know what kind of life you had, what sorts of joys and sorrows you experienced. But even if there was something that left ...

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly ...

I'm not saying he's stingy. But sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness. It's not that either. He's ...

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured and ...

I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is going to be my inability to achieve computer nirvana like a true hacker ...

I've always been stubborn.

Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

But, like some other undiplomatic ambassadors, in her desire to be civil, she ran at once to the extremity of the permitted concessions.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction ...

Moon, moon,when you leave me aloneall the darkness isan utter blackness,a pit of fear,a stench,hands unreasonablenever to touch.But I love you.Do you love me.What to ...

They shared an unshakeable belief in beauty, in overflow, in everythingness, the bursting, indelible beauty in a world where there is so much suffering and ...

The grill-room clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.

Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken.

The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.