List of Topics starting with [U]

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Every step gets him closer to greatness ... or disaster.

I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of ...

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

You need boundaries ... even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains ...

There was no doubt about it. Chaser had learned Puddin the pony's name in a single trial. Identifying the new object correctly after hearing its ...

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and ...

I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack ...

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My ...

Catch the news/One more day/Big wide world/Swallowed whole/Rhythm breaks me/Out of step/Need to shake this/'Less I break/'Cause nothing counts when you're not here/Too much sadness, ...

I really feel myself to be a human who struggles, but the most important thing is my work as a papa.

He turned away from me, the better to hide the exclamation of annoyance which he muttered under his breath; I caught only what seemed to ...

I would have so loved to learn about the Vikings." Lillian snorted. "Since when have you been interested in warlike pagans with silly-looking headgear?" Daisy ...

Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.

This here is Orange Crush, son. It don't get better till you're legal.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

The Gospel gives our suffering personal and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others, and finally, by connecting us to the ...

Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living ...

What you were is yesterday.What you are is now.What you can be is tomorrow.What you decide to be is today.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

I needed someone who wasn't hell-bent on fixing me. someone without an agenda. someone who saw beauty marks instead of flaws. someone who wouldn't leave ...

When God takes your straw, it isn't because he wants you to remain a slave. It's because he wants you to take another step toward ...

There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as ...

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He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by his ...

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God ...

I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.

Just because you don't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. The stars are always there.

Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.

You know, for myself, my personal journey has been a very fortunate one and I would say to people it's like the stars lined up ...

As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and ...

We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the ...

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as ...

How come pleasure never makes it on to ... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you ...

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, ...

Selling is never about convincing. It is always about helping.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

In high school, I decided I wanted to learn guitar, so I picked it up and starting teaching myself some basic chords and started playing ...

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, ...

The world of women fascinates me, probably because my sister and I were always together as children in our mother's salon after school and after ...

I've become saucy.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you ...

The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind.

I want to kiss him for caring enough to be jealous, and smack the shit out of him for being so jealous he's almost blind ...

Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward - believing things can never ...

Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid,Force many a shining youth into the shade,Not to redeem his time, but his estate,And play the fool, but at the ...

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.

Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the ...

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were ...

The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?

And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith's trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones - ...

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

Never let your light go out.

The UEFA Cup is now what we focus on. It's a huge game for us in Rome and it's all to play for.

The fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in ...

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, ...

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart ... ...

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Did you ever read my words, or did you merely finger through them for quotations which you thought might valuably support an already conceived idea ...

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

The ones that always, always want something better, will never find better.

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost ...

One does not know where love will take you.

I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the street through the increasingly terrible rain, ...

She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God's gift to her, and she wouldn't trade him for the world.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

Beware prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

I smiled at her, but she didn't smile back. Sometimes pain likes to be alone.

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone.

I have this coat that I got in a nefarious deal years ago. It's a Johnny Carson coat, and I've had it remade three times. ...

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book ...

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They ...

Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has ...

Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.

You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

... the best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. If, for some reason, you did not plant it then, the next ...

Some argue the days of furthering or bettering oneself through a liberl arts education are gone, but that's true only if "furthering and bettering" means ...

It's always really surreal, being on a film set, but inside a beautiful, massive scene.

We are all a little crazy.

There are spiritual patterns at work in the universe and these announce themselves with impressive regularity wherever human minds and hearts attempt to attune themselves ...

Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. ...

I think that readers believe that a writer becomes friends with the people he interviews and writes about - and I think there are some ...

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged ...

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.