Universal Quotes

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.

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

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

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

Shakespeare is universal.

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

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.