Top 1200 Universal Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

Doing something with Uniqlo means you come up with a wardrobe which is universal and quirky.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who now lovingly help me in every way. I am now coming into an innumerable company of angels. I am now living a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind. Because of my own increased health, wealth and happiness, I am now able to help others live a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind, my good - our good - is universal.

When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began with the American Dream - the idea of the self-made man, who works his way up from rags to riches. By and by, this career concept developed into a universal life philosophy. Today we believe we should be able to choose everything: the way we live, the way we look, even when it comes to the coffee we buy, we constantly need to weigh our decision. That is extremely unhealthy.

Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her.

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.

Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

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

I think that things like curses or whatever - those labels - come from belief systems, universal belief systems. So when you get a global consciousness of something, then that becomes a quote-unquote "truth" for everybody. You know, "This is what happens in the Kennedy family." "This is what happens with the Hemingways." And the more people believe in it, the more it kind of resuscitates the problem; it keeps bringing life to this idea that a curse exists that you can never get out from under.

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

I've created a new sound. I've actually brought back dancing and vibes; it's more universal.

A universal basic income doesn't give people dignity or protect them from boredom and vice.

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

I'm a French director, but what's important for me is that my stories have a universal message, whatever language they're filmed in.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

It's a universal desire to love and to be loved and, despite trying circumstances, to still fight for the good.

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

I'm optimistic Hong Kong will achieve universal suffrage - no matter the attitude of Beijing.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.'

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing.

The beauty of music is that it is a universal language. I truly believe it knows no boundaries of any kind.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. Whenever I go to have a meeting at Universal, the security guard just leaps to his feet and comes over, bumps my hand, and says, "Thank you! Thank you, I love your films!" And it's people who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, who like my films, and I like that.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.