All Quotes

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
‐‐ Edward Thorndike

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.
‐‐ Brent Scowcroft

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
‐‐ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.
‐‐ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
‐‐ Brene Brown

The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism.
‐‐ Jurgen Habermas

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
‐‐ Jourdan Dunn

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
‐‐ Anthony Burgess

The uncontrolled increase of the euro rate vis-a-vis the dollar threatens employment growth in the euro area.
‐‐ Peter Bofinger

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
‐‐ Antony Jay

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
‐‐ Tony Benn

The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
‐‐ Viet D. Dinh

The underbelly of the human psyche, what is often referred to as our dark side, is the origin of every act of self-sabotage. Birthed out of shame, fear, and denial, it misdirects our good intentions and drives us to unthinkable acts of self-destruction and not-so-unbelievable acts of self-sabotage.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

The underconsumptionist of 1819 believed that consumption would be stimulated by tariffs, while the underconsumptionist of a later day urged monetary expansion as the remedy. On the other hand, the remedy proposed for the shortage of money capital was monetary inflation in 1819, encouragement of savings and thrift in the 1930s.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.
‐‐ Suzanne Collins

The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.
‐‐ Luis Gutierrez

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
‐‐ Michael Porter

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
‐‐ Esa-Pekka Salonen

The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
‐‐ Alexander Calder

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
‐‐ Ralph Ellison

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.
‐‐ Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
‐‐ Jim Davis

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
‐‐ Richard L. Evans

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.
‐‐ Tom Bissell

The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
‐‐ Dan Lipinski

The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
‐‐ Franz Grillparzer

The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job.
‐‐ George Papandreou

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.
‐‐ Jim Talent

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.
‐‐ Scott Peters

The unexamined life is not worth living.
‐‐ Socrates

The unfed mind devours itself.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
‐‐ Toni Morrison

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
‐‐ Rose Tremain

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
‐‐ Neil Kinnock

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
‐‐ David Eddings

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.
‐‐ Ernst Zundel

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
‐‐ Aesop

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.
‐‐ James Wolcott

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.
‐‐ Eliza Haywood