List of Topics starting with [U]

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All ...

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting ...

First, I had time, but no money; then I had money, but no time. Finally, I had time and money, but no health to make ...

I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall ...

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be ...

A realization of the universal lack of self-confidence strengthens one's own.

I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift ...

People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different? There was a ...

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

Life is always full of surprises. We have our ups and downs, but the biggest pleasure is enjoying the ups to keep us going.

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather!

An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but ...

This has been a covert preparation for an overt operation." - Rory in NEVER GO ALONE

A block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly - and with very limited funds.

When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe ...

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

Managers construct, rearrange, single out, and demolish many 'objective' features of their surroundings. When people act they unrandomize variables, insert vestiges of orderliness, and literally ...

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, ...

The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.

Revenge is a tricky beast. Her claws face both ways. I don't mind a few more scars. They'll be unnoticed among the rest.

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

Let certain things be uncertain.Appreciate the puzzle that life is,insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps,all Crosswords have a solution,and every Sudoku makes ...

The energies represented by the four # elements are ulitimately the fundamental realities of life that are being analysed with # astrology

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man.

It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.

The torture-wheel shall serve him even as these horses from Hell have served my blood-red lilies of Sotar and my vein-colored irises of Naat and ...

You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between ...

If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.

My time in heaven was up, and I was being told I wasn't the marrying kind by someone who undresses for a living.

You're my favorite sister." I snorted. "Gosh,I'd hate to be your unfavorite sister. I might not survive.""Hey,Kate,you know I'm just teasing when I give you ...

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that ...

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.

Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of ...

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as 'that heartbreaking second when it all ...

Her fingertips rested on his cheek, like a constellation of unexpected kindness.

I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence ...

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North ...

In times of tumult and transition the best leaders know when it is time to stop, unlearn, and relearn.

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the ...

It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.

What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you ...

How had so large a population of Americans disappeared into a largely unrecorded oblivion of poverty and obscurity?

I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody ...

The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which he would dislike ...

Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, ...

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and ...

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it a copy of a ...

Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic ...

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

Tomorrow's past is yesterday's future and is presently undetermined.

Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic ...

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we ...

Why the desire for death.A clean paper or pure white wall.One false line, a scratch, a mistake.Unerasable. So obscureby adding million other tracings, blend it, ...

We met when we were both majoring in Space Invaders with a Pub Etiquette minor at the Happy Harbor Campus of UMass/Boston.

Every morning is new as the last one, uncreased as the not quite imaginable first.

Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully ...

You must show no mercy ... nor have any belief whatsoever in how others judge you ... for your greatness will silence them all.

When thought stops, a doorway opens into dimensions that are pure and unassociated. They're nonbinding realities. They're non-samskaric, which simply means that they're beautiful; they're ...

Hiren's boot CD from USB flashes drive: If you have locked yourself in a windows 8 or windows 8.1 PC, (i.e. you have forgotten the ...

On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every ...

Does it hurt now?" he asked, his tone rough and seductive."No." She shook her head again and sighed, trying to pretend his touch didn't make ...

The undisciplined child enters into discipline by working in the company of others; not being told he is naughty." "Discipline is, therefore, primarily a learning ...

How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping ...

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or ...

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and ...

It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.

Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but ...

Within, you hold a tiny piece of eternity, a fraction of life, a mirror of the universe.

Wind has the potential to produce many, many more jobs per kilowatt hour than coal. But the coal industry has tremendous political clout on Capitol ...

I can't hep but smile. We are here together. In this wide, wild world, we've managed to meet again. I reach out my hand and ...

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Cowards hide [ ... ] but warriors lie and wait [ ... ] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

Here's to the drunken MarineWith beer in his canteen!You've heard of the Unknown SoldierBut, never an unknown Marine!

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

How seasonablyleaf and blossom uncurland living things arrange their death,while someone from afar offblows birthday candles for the world.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one ...

Fear and confession for the fear ofunknown,business mind to fulfill greeds and unsatisfaction, limitedknowledge makes the religion

You can't get unfamous. You can get infamous but you can't get unfamous.

Make your life like toilet paper. Long and usefull.

A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.

Charlie?" he said, pulling mme back to face him. "I do love you." My breath caught on his words ... words I'd waited so long ...

At 19, I went to live in the Philippines for three years as a U.S. Air Force 'dependent spouse.' I lived off-base in Angeles City ...

Honesty suited Andrew because he was an instigator at heart and his opinions were often unpopular.

We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked.

There is hardly anything at all. His life is suddenly a large, empty house, with each vacant room waiting to be furnished. His made-up wife. ...

Unforgivable Curses are the three most powerful and sinister spells known to the wizarding world, and are tools of the Dark Arts. They were first ...

Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what a monstrosity, Sutton ...

I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.