Universal Quotes

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

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

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

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

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.

The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

There is no universal coming out process, so far as I know.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

A smile is the universal welcome.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.