Universal Quotes

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

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

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

The sea is the universal sewer.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

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

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

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.