Top 1200 Universal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

I'm sorry, if you've been married for five minutes, you've sacrificed something, you've looked over at your partner and have gone, "Oh my God this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life." And then the next moment it's "This is the most beautiful and extraordinary human being, and I'm going to stick with it because I love them more than anyone else." That monologue to me is the universal thing, especially for women because I feel like that's the big thing with women.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

What's universal in America about teenagehood is a middle-class white boy with average dreams.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.

Music is a universal language and really an interesting way for a brand to expand their consumer horizon.

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.

Among many other reforms, Australians pioneered the secret ballot and universal suffrage.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

I always felt music to be universal and undifferentiated - Western classical, folk, Carnatic or Hindustani and so on.

There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.

LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.

To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.

Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. —contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. —universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor.

There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

I just know that I have this Universal championship, and I want to make it worth as much as possible, and that's what I'm focusing on.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

We zero in on family as a theme because it makes the movies emotionally available to a universal audience.

People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;" "the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.