Quotes By Popular Topics: [U]
To the Greek mind, the unwillingness to compromise in religious matters - which were not all that important, anyway - was impious, unpatriotic, maybe even ...
Promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the ...
Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears.
My problem is to bring together in a painting two seemingly conflicting, impossibly unmixable ideas. One is that the finished work shall evoke a sense ...
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I ...
Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.
One piece of bad luck was rapid technical change, which was a weapon that oddball upstarts could use against the enormous gray corporations.
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone ...
Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to get it and ...
I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a ...
The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground ...
We have an undeniable connection that's more intense than 10,000 Kelvin heat, more dynamic than seismic activity. It's like there's gravity between us - she's ...
That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of what I'd lost or what had been ...
I got a crash-course education in urban fantasy. I suddenly had to look up all these other writers I was supposed to be in a ...
USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable ...
I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera ...
I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.
The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can be omitted from ...
The Lucy Dawn was slowly drifting away as flames engulfed it. Longarm gestured behind him at the blazing ship and called, 'It's over, Uriah. You ...
The jury was a cynical, unsophisticated bunch, seemingly incapable of empathy, eager to embrace defense bromides however haphazardly delivered.
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands ...
The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've ...
The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly ...
Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass.
Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution.
I'd always leaned toward the shy side but was never unsocial until I started seeing visions of people from the past. It's a really strange ...
My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she ...
I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.
The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,the every-day world's people ...
Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative ...
He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, ...
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something ...
A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as ...
So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They ...
New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to 'make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015'. He added: 'I am Ed, the Almighty One.'Defeated brother ...
Ann Fowler was sentenced to twenty lashes in 1637 for defaming a county justice, Adam Thorowgood, with the somewhat undeferential suggestion that Captain Thorowgood could ...
Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an ...
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for ...
You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.
Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is ... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in ...
Ushikawa preferred a world where smells and pain still existed, even if smells and pain were unendurable.
You're using me for my hot friends?""Are you gay?""Nope.""Then you're useless to me.
You gonna keep her under the stairs like Harry fucking Potter?
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, ...
My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press ...
You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
I know a little bit about trying to do the right thing and fucking up completely." I added."You talking about mom?" Ben said"I was talking ...
Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.
Something that chemistry supplies are very good for." When he gave me an odd look, I unwrapped a Bunsen burner and twirled it in the ...
Never traffic in unpracticed truth.
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.
Either I'm ridiculously lucky or ridiculously unlucky, I just don't know which one.
Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does ...
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome" - USMC, unofficial
Do you feel trapped by the limitations in your life? Remember, you hold the key to the freedom you seek. You can unlock those limitations ...
Women are still chronically underrepresente d in U.S. politics, at both a local and national level. But there's one city, where those three top jobs ...
It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.
It's not tiddlywinks now, is it?..... NZ Rugby Legend
One cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily.
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale ... from hell's heart I stab at thee.
The purely GreatWhose soul no siren passion could unsphere,Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
I watched him playing with the long blades of grass, weaving them into patterns as he hummed an unfamiliar song, a waltz."What are you doing?" ...
When you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a ...
As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.
You trip and lance Your finger at a crab. It strikes. You rub It inch-meal to a bilge of shell. You dance Child-crazy over tub ...
Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.
Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we ...
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well ...
The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a ...
Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
(Malory, unhopeful: "I don't suppose you have any tea?" Jesse: "DO YOU WANT EARL GREY OR DARJEELING?" Malory: "Oh, sweet heavens!")
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
For our own past is covered by the currents of action,But the torment of others remains an experienceUnqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.People change, and smile: ...
Unspoken bond existed between the residents of Chapel Isle. The island was the same as the nets its fishermen cast at sea, a tight lattice ...
Indeed, the first thing you might learn, in considering jokes, is that Marcel Duchamp's urinal was one - quite a good one the first time ...
What sort of soldier are you? she asked. Not much of one. Using his book, he tapped the triangular brown patch with its inset green ...
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing ... everything else is just figure skating.
To him, art and craftmanship were usless unless they burned like the sun and had power of storms.
Life is puzzle unsolved.
Perhaps you didn't say much about him, mother, but Gerald said lots - dreadful things!''Yes,' said the Duchess, 'he said what he thought. The present ...
Charlie snorted. Sure. Insta-friends with one of the world's most famous rock stars. ZERO weirdness. Check. And you're not my type either, dude.
Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. ...
Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow ...
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
He stared at her the way folks stare at a rainbow, taking in all that unexpected beauty, not wanting to look away in case it ...
Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves ...
Who expects trouble gets trouble.