Universalizing Quotes & Sayings

Why?" I said, taking the paper from him as Al smiled. "If it's not what I agreed to, I will burn Al's gonads off the first chance I get. Turn around. I need to use your back for a second."
"Ah, hold on a tick," Al said, snapping his fingers again and catching the new paper drifting down. "How silly of me. This is the one. Here. — Kim Harrison

Women play on their beauty as children play with their knives. And they hurt themselves on it, too. — Victor Hugo

I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority. — Adolf Hitler

Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri. — Diego Della Valle

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. — Salman Rushdie

There stands the parable; there stands the sacred metaphor of belonging, one heart to another. WIthout the metaphor of memory and history, we cannot imagine the life of the Other. We cannot imagine what it is to be someone else. Metaphor is the reciprocal agent, the universalizing force: it makes possible the power to envision the stranger's heart. — Cynthia Ozick

What changed at the end of the eighteenth century, therefore, was not so much the discovery of a fundamentally new concept in human relations but the emergence of a political movement universalizing what until then had been largely a local and territorial impulse. This insight helps to explain the speed of change. What is notable for our purposes is the dualistic or two-sided character of the free-air principle. On the one hand, it reflected views about what was proper in human relationships, a sense of the wrongness of enslavement. But on the other hand, it had an exclusivist side, a statement of pride in national identity, coupled with a determination to prevent established relationships from being disrupted by the — Gavin Wright

barely-affordable purpose. I had been tempted on several — Keith Hale

I'm more comfortable weaving Indian flavors into American classics. — Aarti Sequeira

I don't have to many friends, I have 5 or 6 boys in my life that never change no matter what. — Shwayze

For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture. — Bill Henson

In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but "confiscated" the Message; Christianity universalized but "altered" it; Islam in turn restored it by stabilizing and universalizing it. — Frithjof Schuon

One of the key strategies of faith is to tackle fear not by belittling the fear or wishing it away but by taking our eyes off of that which makes us afraid and looking to God. — Anonymous

Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people's experiences as an interpretive lens. — Matt Chandler

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter. — Paulo Coelho

Cosmopolitan theology that longs for the Kindom of God seeks to recover its revolutionary universalizing ethos in terms of hospitality, neighbor-love, and multiple solidarities that one can see in Jesus' teaching and ministry, without any imperialist, kyriarchcal, hierarchical implications — Namsoon Kang

The state which is regarded as the instrument for universalizing a certain religion must perforce be an ever expanding state. The Islamic state, whose principal function was to put God's law into practice, sought to establish Islam as the dominant reigning ideology over the entire world ... .The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state. — Majid Khadduri

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government. — Ronald Reagan

I like new challenges and new experiences. — Ramon Rodriguez

I came to understand that people come and see you because they like you. They don't come to throw things at you. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit. — Elie Wiesel