Quotes About Universal

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

I find that Bach is appealing to a lot of different audiences. It really hits people at their core in different ways, but it also creates a meditative space. I just feel like I can play it, and it reaches people.

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.

Flip or Flop' was a house show based on designing houses for the masses - they were always designed so that any person could walk in and like it and picture themselves living in it.

We have fans in high school, all the way up to grandmas and 40-year-old housewives. College frat guys. It's all over the map.

I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

I think human nature is eternal and constant.

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

The struggle for freedom and human rights is universal and Canada used to be a leader.

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

To slur "feminism" into "humanism" is to usurp women's voices once again, to make the singular feminine into the so-called universal masculine.

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

Never suppose that God is more "there" than "here," or more "then" than "now." For the Father is always working—in all places, at all times, in all people. The steadfast love of God fills the entire earth (Psalm 33:15).

you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve.

This is why killing and stealing are wrong—not because a book tells us they are wrong, or a law tells us they are wrong, or a spiritual guide tells us they are wrong, but because if everyone did them we would not move toward the ultimate complexity that is God, with the rest of the universe.

Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. Every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.