Unified Quotes

• September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Powerful, September 11

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• Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Skills, Experience

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• Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Answers, Whole

  Francis A. Schaeffer (2014). “Escape from Reason”, p.106, InterVarsity Press

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• India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Sri Lanka, India

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

  Peter Straub

  Fiction, Want, Entity

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• The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done

  Edward Young

  Dream, Future, Pie

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• I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Past, Environmental

  Preface to "Humane Biology Projects" by the Animal Welfare Institute, 1961.

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• The greatest challenge of community life is to create synthesis, embracing diversity in a unified whole, resolving differences with the healing spirit of love and dedication to the good of the whole.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Healing, Dedication, Differences

  Corinne McLaughlin, Gordon Davidson (1985). “Builders of the Dawn: Community Lifestyles in a Changing World”

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• Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

  Deepak Chopra

  Unity, Enlightenment, Fields

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life”, p.42, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wish, World, Cooperation

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2003). “Man's Peril, 1954-55”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.

  Prince Hassan bin Talal

  World, Action, Conflict

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• The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Team, Climbing

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• A moment of grace. There rose up within me a profound sense of being loved. I felt "gathered together" and encircled by a Presence completely loving, as if I were enveloped by the music of a love song created just for me. It was not overwhelming or even emotional. Just a warm knowing that I was in God's loving embrace...centered and unified there. [Love]encounters cannot be analyzed, only shared. If you take a butterfly, Robert Frost said, and pin it down into a box, you no longer have a butterfly.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Butterfly, Emotional

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• A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Heart, Men, Unity

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• In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Party, Past

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• The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Religious, Patriotic, Law

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• It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

  Charles Ives

  May, Form, Composer

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.36, 1st World Publishing

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• I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for.

  Brian Greene

  Journey, Goal, Looks

  "Greene, With Curiosity" by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

  Brian Greene

  Theory, Precision, Doorstep

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Biographies, Contradiction, Human Life

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• Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

  Sheryl Crow

  Artist, Together, Kind

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• Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

  Stephen Hawking

  Fire, Breathe, Theory

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.151, Random House

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• Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam.

  Adolf Hitler

  Greatness, Europe, Two

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 4, 1945), 1961.

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• Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit of the marathon. We will still have our individual motivations, but we will be unified under the Boston Strong umbrella.

  Meb Keflezighi

  Running, Strong, Motivation

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• If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doe, Way, Action

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