Universal Quotes

• 'The 5th Wave' is sci-fi, but I tried very hard to ground the story in very human terms and in those universal themes that transcend genre. How do we define ourselves? What, exactly, does it mean to be human? What remains after everything we trust, everything we believe in and rely upon, has been stripped away?

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Ourselves
  • Remains
  • Transcend

• English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Language
  • Certain
  • Punning

• An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

  

  Carol Bly
  • Art
  • Ideas
  • Literature

• All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • World
  • Today
  • Fire

• The problem often is that aspiring brands wish to be universally loved. Unfortunately, universal love is neither achievable nor desirable. Instead, great brands are loved by some and hated by others because they actually stand for something.

  

  Nirmalya Kumar
  • Universal
  • Brands
  • Achievable

• The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.

  

  Gelek Rimpoche
  • Competition
  • Successful
  • Increase

• The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

  

  Nancy Hale
  • More
  • Universal
  • Specific

• Obligations may be universal or particular.

  

  Tom G. Palmer
  • Particular
  • Universal

• Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

  

  Geoff Rickly
  • Virtue
  • Class
  • Universal

• The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Truth
  • Decided
  • Universal

• I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.

  

  DeLisha Milton-Jones
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Europe

• The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Benefits
  • Bases
  • Operations

• Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

  

  William Westney
  • Humans
  • Adventure
  • Fulfilling

• Law of Attraction is Universal, and every person is affected by it. And it is always true that what I think and what I feel and what I get are always a match.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Law
  • Feels
  • Persons

• What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Imagination
  • Imagine
  • Library

• Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid

• Numbers constitute the only universal language.

  

  Nathanael West
  • Language
  • Numbers
  • Universal

• Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Language
  • Dead
  • Universal

• How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Sex
  • Knows
  • Sticks

• Music truly is the universal language.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Language
  • Universal

• Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Expensive
  • Studios
  • Corporate

• Music is a language, a universal language.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Language
  • Universal

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