List of Topics starting with [U]

Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ...

Fill your armoury with arrows of courage!

While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their ...

Everyday may not be good but there's something good in everyday ...

I would introduce and support legislation to send Roe v. Wade back to the states.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

If there is a God, he or she or it or whatever higher power there is is behind us so long as we're using our ...

I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

When there's lightning, don't stand alone or think you'll be protected by hiding in the trees. Find the nearest ditch and lie as low in ...

As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.

People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.

HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.

The mind is beautiful and always in search of beauty.In a moment it can run from joy to untold agony.

Some Wishes won't become true But will lead you to the ultimate Truth

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you ...

I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

If you don't have a positive attitude in business and in life, you will never, ever be successful.

Sometimes we're all trying to purge something. And what we're trying to purge resists our purging.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It ...

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable ...

I only show emotion at home, and in my bed,

He's brought me breakfast. In bed. Andhe's done it shirtless. Women of America, be jealous.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the ...

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

Not to every young girl is it given to enter the harem of the Sultan of Turkey and return to her homeland a virgin.

If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different ...

I know I only want him,' she said between sobs, the syllables all wrong, 'because he doesn't want me. How is that even possible?''It's normal ...

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

For the first time in probably the entire decade that had passed since I had seen or spoken to my own mother, I thought warm ...

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it ...

Isn't antimatter what fuels the U.S.S.Enterprise?

Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. ...

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.

We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone ...

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also ...

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't ...

There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard ...

Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly magic; luckily ...

Marry the person who gives you the same feeling you get when you take the very first sip of COFFEE in the morning!

I love you, Vic! Anything else is lies. I really, truly love you. I'll love you until the day I die.

Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry

I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's ...

Winners are convinced they will finish first. The others hope to finish first.

Ummm ... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's ...

I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell you this: if he was ...

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless ...

A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, ...

A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been riveted upon obtaining a loaf of bread, ...

I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.

Doolittle nodded to one of his assistants. The short, slight woman approached Roman's cot. "We're going to put you in your own private room." "Is ...

When I work out, I have energy and feel good about myself.

As often is the case after a powerful, destructive storm, it was an achingly beautiful day. Even so late in the summer, I could still ...

It's always easier to walk away.

You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.'Well, as my mother was a whore, and my father a ...

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and ...

I had entered Kidneyland. I was officially a patient now. Somehow, I had managed to walk through the door: WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SICKNESS. ...

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the ...

He knew that he was caught up in one of those stretches of time when for anything to happen normally would be abnormal. The dawn ...

Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for ...

We take the responsibility for our own enlightenment. We can pray for some help, and we may get it. But the work is ours to ...

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

No one who is good can ever be ugly.

I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on ...

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when it ...

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

All this from one kiss. If we ever make love, I'm going to need a week to recover.

Everything that flowers, dies too, but in its dying provides seed of a new beginning. - The Monk (Pg-50)

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now ...

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training ...

Good luck tended to avoid me.

If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?

If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

The neglect of a generation is regeneration so every soul may become its own history, not the incessant anxiety of unnaturally imposed lessons, a plague ...

A [wo]man who is unconscious of [her/]himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when ...

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

When I give my jewelry as a present, I feel like I'm giving protection to someone I care about ... I've given pieces to my ...

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East ...

There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a ...

Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become ...

Nothing that results in progress is achieved by unanimous consent!

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

The dullest thing in the world is waiting for your scene. But the most exciting thing is seeing yourself on the screen and then getting ...

This was their way; a lot was said by saying nothing. She

Yes, I think so. A sign of the zodiac. I think Gemini.

States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.