Universal Quotes

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

Interior liberty is 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 only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.

Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.

When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.

If you contribute to other peoples happiness, you will find the true meaning of life. The key point is to have a genuine sense of universal responsibility

Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

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

This does not mean, of course, that we must think of waiting for the age of universal harmony.

In the particular lies the universal.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

The game asks that you work to improve, that you put something into it, and that you also give something back to it. The game is universal. It is a language that unites all of us.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

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.

A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment