List of Topics starting with [U]

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

Yeah, and that alternate universes usually have the worst endings with the unhappiest conclusions.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must ...

I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them ...

Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the ...

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do ...

I had never killed myself before, so I had no idea what would I want to listen to when it was too late for me ...

We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the ...

I bought it, I read it, and I heeded its advice. I remain unabducted.

There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you ...

No one ever wrote down a plan to be fat, broke, stupid, lazy, unhappy, and mediocre. Those are the things that happen to you when ...

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between ...

If a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, I guarantee you, she is the one.

UnsureOne: But surely if you've been friends since you were six and you're now thirty-two, you've both been married once and are now living with ...

I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him, except in certain ...

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final ...

One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The ...

An overnight success is usally twenty years in the making!

He wasn't fond of girls, especially curious ones; in his experience, they uually were demons in disguise.

You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Your life is what happens when you're busy trying to become unbusy.

It rained cats and dogs non-stop at this wedding. Later during the reception, the rain stopped as the sun was setting, and the sky turned ...

Neck and collarbone and took a picture. Kiss me here. #atnight She pressed upload and then put the phone in her bag, walked out into ...

By nature he is more closed-up than I am, I agree, but I know - and from my own experience - that at some time ...

Sometimes he'd dream of hunting for Adam the Usurper twenty years in the future, or of Doctor Simmons sending Aero to burrow into his head ...

And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death,

My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. ...

I wasn't unpopular, exactly. I was just . . . unequipped.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what ...

I'm amazed by just constantly - there's not a week that goes past where there's not someone in Ulan Bator or Rio De Janeiro suddenly ...

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not ...

Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of a ...

Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and ...

There is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of ...

Bartleby is never happy, but he never can be, you know. Life in general offends him. Happiness is something that happens to other people, because ...

Ultimately you write alone.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of ...

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they ...

Laugh represents a fragile glory of the mankind in this cruel and uncertain universe!

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Prenups are so unromantic - a sign of distrust, not love. Time for a reality check, my friends. First, drawing up a prenuptial agreement together ...

She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword.And died.So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away ...

Houses were knocked down ... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of ...

Hope sinks a world of imagination.

The dwarf has risen from the dead, Tyrion thought. And look, he's uglier than ever, run tell your friends.

She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the ...

Undoreth, we. Battle-born. Raise hammer, raise axe, at our war-shout gods tremble.

But 8 years ago, he found himself unexpectedly falling in love when he was in his 77th year, with Bill Hayes, a younger American writer. ...

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

It is impossible to worship God and remain unchanged

[A} maxim's legal character must be intrinsic: it must have what I shall call 'lawlike form.' this is why legal character, or universality, must be ...

We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, ...

Eaters of Wonder BreadMust be underbred.So little to eat.Where's the wheat?

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they ...

God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well- being. Only He is equipped to provide that. His perfectly stable, ...

I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and ...

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. ...

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'.

There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagarian Eastern travelers, glancing from car windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior ...

Not all were joyful tales; we needed to acknowledge that love was not just kisses, smiles, and fulfillment, but also sacrifice, compromise, and hard work.

Let no one say that I have said nothing new ... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play ...

If the proper preparations have been made and the necessary precautions taken, any staged event is guaranteed successEthelred The Unready

But Aunt Maureen makes smashing omelettes." Julia Upjohn."She makes smashing omelettes." Poirot's voice was happy. He sighed."Then Hercule Poirot has not lived in vain, he ...

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence?

My kids know the importance of being active - and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They ...

If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown ...

We have great faith, though yours at present is uncrystallized; we have a terrible honesty that all our sophistry cannot destroy and, above all, a ...

Snow, the boy is called," Pycelle said unhelpfully. "I glimpsed him once at Winterfell," the queen said, "though the Starks did their best to hide ...

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

This is treachery, to change faith in accord with shifting fortune. The justice of my cause impelled me to withstand even adverse circumstance.

So during the rainy season the prudent person carries an umbrela, while the reckless person does not and, of course, gets wet when it rains. ...

I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: ...

The woods are never solitarythey are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable ...

Any city or town in the Upper Midwest that's known more for what it used to make than what it makes now.

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more ...

If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usuallyresults in a belief in anything.

Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world ...

When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One ...

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make ...

And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that ...

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

Rachel showed Ulani how to work the camera. Jason explained that the device would capture and preserve the image, along with their souls.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But ...

If I wanted a life of chastity I'd live with my wife.

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

It is hard to die unmourned.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

Children born to unwed mothers,' he said after a long silence, 'have parts of their souls missing.

Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That's a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah.

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided ...

I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette ...

Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will.

You'll use it, boy, and as long as you hate using it, you will use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever ...

Russia will make new allegiances. Siberia, unfreezing, will become a land grab.

The only way [the book can be written] is to set the unbook-the gilt-framed portrait of the book-right there on the altar and sacrifice it, ...