Quotes About Universal

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

Conservons-les », dit Sénécal, » mais qu'ils soient conférés par le suffrage universel, par le Peuple, seul vrai juge ! »

Yet her heart did not thirst for emotions like the hearts of sentimental women; she was not searching for a man's unique love nor for the gratification of a passion. All she required was the admiration of every man she met, acknowledgment of capitulation, the homage of universal tenderness.

La jeune fille se retrouvait dans ces histoires d'autrefois, s'étonnant de la similitude de leurs pensées, de la parenté de leurs désirs ; car chaque cÅ"ur s'imagine ainsi avoir tressailli avant tout autre sous une foule de sensations qui ont fait battre ceux des premières créatures et feront palpiter encore ceux des derniers hommes et des dernières femmes.

A fiatal lány mintha önmagával találkozott volna ezekben a régi történetekben: elcsodálkozott, mennyire hasonlók a gondolataik, s mennyire azonosak a vágyaik. Mert minden szív azt képzeli: Å' remegett meg elÅ'ször attól a sok élménytÅ'l, ami megdobbantotta már az elsÅ' emberek szívét, és meg fogja dobogtatni az utolsó férfiét és az utolsó asszonyét is.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

I am, indeed, against all proselyters, whether they be on my side or on some other side. What moves nine-tenths of them, I believe, is simply the certainty of the result that I have just mentioned. Their lofty pretensions are all tosh. The thing they yearn for is the satisfaction of making someone unhappy: that yearning is almost as universal among them as thirst is in dry Congressmen.

Time is the one thing we can all agree to call supernatural.

La richiesta universale di felicità e infelicità largamente diffusa nella nostra società sono i segni più convincenti che viviamo in una società dominata dal lavoro, ma che non ha abbastanza lavoro per esserne appagata.

The more effective the chauvinistic propaganda, the easier it was to persuade public opinion of the necessity for a supranational structure which would rule from above and without national distinctions by a universal monopoly of power and the instruments of violence.

If women have failed to make universal art because we're trapped within the personal, why not universalise the personal and make it the subject of our art?

Kertbeny coined 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual' as a pair on purpose: having two marked categories instead of only one generates a certain amount of equality, which was precisely his point. The paired words suggest that both 'homo' and 'hetero' are marked categories whose specialization sets them off from the unmarked human universal, the undifferentiated 'sexual'.

I think that essentially, since music was invented, it's basically reached out and touched every single kind of conceivable generation.

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

I am a Mexican that has been lucky enough to travel the world, speaking English, but with a heart that speaks a universal language.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.

Trust is transcendent, resolute, universal, sacred and tolerant.

When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.