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Uefa should take as strong action as it is allowed to do.
- Mark Hughes quotes

Ugliness without tact is horrible
- Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
- Norman Mailer quotes

Ultimately it was stifling because it sought to embrace in its philosophy every facet of existence [on Marxism]. That, of course, is its attraction to many
- Tony Blair quotes

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
- Marilyn Ferguson quotes

Ultimately what matters to me is my role.
- Madhuri Dixit quotes

Umm Qasr is a town similar to Southampton.
- Geoff Hoon quotes

Umpire Fenwick just twitches his nose, instead of putting his finger up in the usual way.
- Paul Allott quotes

Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
- Sir John Denham quotes

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
- William Congreve quotes

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
- Woodrow Wilson quotes

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
- Henry David Thoreau quotes

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
- Galbraith quotes

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think (in W H Auden A Certain World)
- Hannah Arendt quotes

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
- Elsa Maxwell quotes

Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie.
- Adlai E Stevenson quotes

Under this rock lives someone who rocks.
- Sheryl Crow quotes

Under this stone, Reader, survey Dead Sir John Vanbrugh's house of clay. Lie heavy on him, Earth! for he Laid many heavy loads on thee! (Epitaph to Sir John Vanbrugh)
- Abel Evans quotes

Undergraduates are like decimals: they recur.
- Warden Spooner quotes

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman quotes

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
- Oscar Levant quotes

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.
- Scott Alexander quotes

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law.
- Derek Jarman quotes

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
- Norman Vincent Peale quotes

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
- Thomas Hobbes quotes

Underwear is such an emotional thing.
- Elle MacPherson quotes

Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.
- Jean Harlow quotes

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
- Horace quotes

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
- Horace Mann quotes

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players [on England not qualifying for Euro 2008]
- Arsene Wenger quotes

Unfortunately in the emotion of winning the game, my comments have come across partly in the wrong way. I want to make it clear that I don't dive. This was the intention of my answer.
- Didier Drogba quotes

Unfortunately my personal involvement in some of my projects is being misconstrued as high-handedness.
- Aishwarya Rai quotes

Unfortunately we couldn't pull through with the win but I enjoyed it very much and hopefully I'll play for many years to come. [on losing to England in 2005]
- AB De Villiers quotes

Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.
- Daryl Hannah quotes

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
- Susan Sontag quotes

Unfortunately, with the exception of the win against South Africa on 18 November, England's recent results have not gone the way that Andy, the players, supporters and the RFU would have wished for
- Rob Andrew quotes

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
- Graham Greene quotes

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
- Wallace Stevens quotes

United we stand, divided we fall.
- Aesop quotes

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
- Adolf Hitler quotes

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