Universally quotes:

Send

Universally, the better gold the worse man. The political economist defies us to show any gold mine country that is traversed by good roads, or a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period. -- Caitlin Flanagan
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. -- Confucius
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. -- Albert Einstein
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. -- Walt Disney
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. -- Larry Page
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it. -- Matthew McConaughey
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. -- Max Weber
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. -- Jane Austen
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. -- Andrea Dworkin
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife. -- Bruce Feirstein
The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample. -- John James Audubon
To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun. -- John Legend
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it. -- John Thune
It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally. -- Nikola Tesla
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. -- Mercy Otis Warren
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it. -- John Hancock
The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. -- Christopher Monckton
It's always more interesting to make a movie about what is relevant in your society. What's the political global backdrop? What are our threats? What are we vulnerable to? Because that's what an audience vibes on - that is what people are interested in, universally. -- Gerard Butler
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. -- George Orwell
We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford. -- Carolyn Maloney
The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. -- Nikola Tesla
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world. -- Adoniram Judson
I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America. -- Olympia Snowe
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned. -- John Ridley
People aren't universally heroic. -- Alexei Sayle
Read universally; think universally; live universally! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Taste and good-nature are universally connected. -- William Shenstone
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. -- Peter De Vries
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. -- Herbert Spencer
Cents are the most universally used interval measure. -- Alexander John Ellis
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. -- John Ratzenberger
Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally. -- John Naisbitt
An unclean person is universally a slothful one. -- Henry David Thoreau
To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. -- Christian Rudder
Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent. -- Natan Sharansky
Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art. -- Shu Uemura
We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting. -- Fatih Birol
The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally. -- Dalai Lama
More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible. -- Billy Joel
It exposed a universally relatable, oft-times unspoken truth we all suppress. -- Ken Poirot
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind. -- Thomas Carlyle
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. -- Thomas Carlyle
The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry. -- William Howard Taft
Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion. -- Alice Schwarzer
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted. -- Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man. -- Confucius
Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age. -- Elliott Sober
Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor. -- Alan Greenspan
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. -- Stephen Gardiner
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. -- Martin Amis
The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared -- Francis Fukuyama
The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful. -- Gary Wolf
--
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. -- Leland Stanford
Salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men. -- Marilynne Robinson
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness . -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific. -- Anne Hathaway
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. -- William Dean Howells
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being. -- Immanuel Kant
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly. -- James Martineau
The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. -- William Dean Howells
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches. -- Elizabeth Lowell
Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business. -- Joe Johnston
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. -- Thorstein Veblen
'Captain America' was probably the most universally positive experience I've had in this mad business. -- Joe Johnston
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. -- Upton Sinclair
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected. -- William Shenstone
I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved. -- Moby
Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men. -- Steve Kluger
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. -- Hunter S. Thompson
All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied. -- Samuel Johnson
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct -- Samuel Johnson
The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.... -- Frank Zappa
Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. -- Cass McCombs
The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal. -- Confucius
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific. -- John Updike
That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true. -- Simon Greenleaf
A man's got to keep up appearances. I'll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are. -- Julia Quinn
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. -- Daniel Akaka
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. -- Tom Stoppard
Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album. -- Marina and the Diamonds
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. -- Daniel Akaka
... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor. -- Peter De Vries
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. -- Raymond Aron
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
When people stargazing, they stare at stars,and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars. -- Toba Beta
There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. -- William Shenstone
--
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. -- Paul Watzlawick
It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate. -- Richard Dawkins
All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens. -- Jack McDevitt
While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance. -- Thomas E. Mann
The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them. -- Phillip Lopate
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton
All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today. -- Emile Borel
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. -- Alan Sillitoe
Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex. -- Maria Sharapova
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride. -- Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
In this chaotic and diverse world, the human race wouldn't have survived and co-exited, thanks to universally shared values. Saved by values! -- Assegid Habtewold
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered. -- Reid Hoffman
One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women. -- Geoffrey Gray
Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions. -- David Hume
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces. -- Helen Fielding
Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited. -- Kenneth Frampton
The strongest common bond between the genders is the universally acknowledged truth that both men and women are unhappy with their hair. -- Linda Sunshine
My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day. -- John Molson
Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited. -- Kate Christensen
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. -- Samuel Adams
National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants. -- George Will
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. -- Denis Dutton
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible. -- Bill Maris
It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language. -- Thomston
Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries. -- Vladimir Putin
Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Each creature has a universally unique name, a sacred identity.If you know and call them by that name, they will definitely reply. -- Toba Beta
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier. -- Harold Bloom

Send