Universal Quotes · Page 11

Every string theory that's been written down says the speed of light is universal. But other ideas about quantum gravity predict the…

— Lee Smolin

[My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets,…

— Simon Norfolk

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world.…

— George Bernard Shaw

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

— Jack McDevitt

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign…

— Eugene V. Debs

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

— Piet Mondrian

People never regret when they come out of a movie and they've been crying. I think people need it. That's why people…

— Daniel Gillies

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment],…

— Joseph Story

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.

— John Updike

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body.

— Swami Vivekananda

Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

— Guru Nanak

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal…

— Adlai Stevenson I

I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of…

— Peter Sohn

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social…

— Steven Pinker

'Old Fashioned' can expect strong interest because it taps into a universal human longing.

— David A. R. White

But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people…

— Parminder Nagra

“Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.”

— Paul Hoffman

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

— Alan Turing