Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn’t around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with ‘Jurassic Park’ and its primeval-dinosaur universe.

You know George M. Steinbrenner III is the center of all evil in the universe.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

Nothing is black and white. There are no universal standards that determine what’s good and what’s evil. It’s subjective.

Basically, I just want to talk about love and how it can overcome boundaries. I want to discuss those more universal beliefs, not more politicized ideas.

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

Open your mouth wide A universal sigh

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy… to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous… let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

In literature, we find the universality of human experience

The writer’s task is to reveal the hidden connections between people and the world, to uncover the universal in the particular.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information

America is layered with the given graffiti, names of its generous dead. There isn’t a museum or hospital, a theater or municipal amenity, however humble, that can’t be blessed with the remembrance of the comfortably-off and defunct. The money left to Ivy League universities in America isn’t about the needs of learning

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers – shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle – to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.

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

Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal.

Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity

The universal view melts things into a blur.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Let it be understood that the University is a preparatory school: it is life that gives you the “finals”—not college.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Latin music is universal

Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

Blessed be you, universal matter, immeasurable time, boundless ether, triple abyss of stars and atoms and generations: you who by overflowing and dissolving our narrow standards or measurement reveal to us the dimensions of God.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

The experience of the human race indicates strongly that the only person in abundant supply is the universal incompetent.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best.

I love ‘Donnie Brasco’ and ‘Days of Thunder,’ so after I did ‘The Skulls,’ I was like, ‘I want to be either an undercover cop, or I want to race cars!’ Universal came to me with a newspaper article about street racing in L.A., and I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? I grew up doing that right off Peoria in Sun Valley.’ They asked if I wanted to do it.

Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest

Man is a universe within himself

Whatever the ultimate fate of my country, my love for you remains (to all Brits), and will remain, undiminished. My non-violence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it. It is that love which has prompted my appeal to you.

Into this Universe, and why not knowing,
Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person’s life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I won’t say that I’m an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know… but I’m not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper.

Do I dare disturb the universe?

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Nature never breaks her own laws.