U.S.A. : America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

U.S.A. : America has been called a melting pot, but it seems better to call it a mosaic, for in it each nation, people, or race which has come to its shores has been privileged to keep its individuality, contributing at the same time its share to the unified pattern of a new nation. (King Baudouin: King of the Belgians for 42 years, 1930-1993)

U.S.A. : America is . . . the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! The Real American has not yet arrived . . . I tell you—he will be the fusion of all races, the common superman. (Israel Zangwill: British author at the forefront of cultural Zionism during the 19th century, 1864-1926)

U.S.A. : Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

U.S.A. : America—the best poor man's country in the world. (William A. White: U.S.newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive Movement, 1868-1944)

U.S.A. : America—the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change. (Richard Rayner: British author of both fiction and non-fiction books, Born 1955)

U.S.A. : Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said "We're not free spenders" doesn't know our like. (John Ciardi: U.S. poet, translator, and etymologist, 1916-1986)

U.S.A. : Critics say that America (U.S.A.) is a lie because its reality falls so far short of its ideals. They’re wrong. America is not a lie; it’s a disappointment. But it can be a disappointment only because it is also a hope. (Unknown Source: )

U.S.A. : If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark (Richard Wilkinson: British social epidemiologist, author, advocate, and left-wing political activist, Born 1943)

U.S.A. : In public services, we lag behind all the industrialized nations of the West, preferring that the public money go not to the people but to big business. The result is a unique society in which we have free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

U.S.A. : Other countries may think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. (Bill Maher: U,S. comedian, political commentator, and television host, Born 1956)

U.S.A. : The darkest thing about Africa is America's ignorance of it. (George H. Kimble: British-born geographer, professor at McGill University, and secretary of the International Geographical Union, 1908-2004)

U.S.A. : The U.S. passed from barbarism to decadence, without having passed through civilization. (Unknown Source: )

U.S.A. : The U.S.'s national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. (Lewis Mumford: U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990)

U.S.A. : The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian, and Caribbean history of the United States. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)

U.S.A. : The United States is an empire . . . an empire in denial. (Niall Ferguson: British-American historian and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Born 1964)

U.S.A. : The ‘American Dream’ comes at the expense of the American Negro. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

U.S.A. : Violence is as American as cherry pie. (H. R. Brown: U.S. civil rights activist who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Born 1943)

U.S.A. : Washington D.C. is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. (John K. Galbraith: U.S. Canadian-born economist, public official, diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, 1908-2006)

U.S.A. : You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—once they’ve exhausted every other possibility. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

UBUNTU : My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours. . . . . We say, "A person is a person through other persons —UBUNTU" (Desmond Tutu: South African Anglican Archbishop known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist and the first black African to hold the position, Born 1931)

UBUNTU : My humanity is tied to your humanity. (Unknown Source: )

UBUNTU : You are my other me, we are mirrors of each other. If I do harm to you, I do harm to myself. If I love and respect you, I love and respect myself. (Unknown Source: )

UMBRELLAS : Books, minds, and umbrellas only work if they’re open. (Unknown Source: )

UNACCEPTABILITY : Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. (Shakti Gawain: U.S. author and teacher, Born 1948)

UNADVENTUROUS : The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. (Edward J. Phelps: U.S. lawyer, diplomat, and founder of the American Bar Association, 1822-1900)

UNANIMITY : Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. (Robert H. Jackson: U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)

UNAWARENESS : When opportunity knocks, some people are in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. (Polish Proverb: )

UNAWARENESS : Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way. (E.L. Doctorow: U.S. historical fiction writer, 1931-2015)

UNCERTAINTY : As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. (Edith Wharton: Novelist, short story writer, and designer, whose work portrayed the lives and morals of the Gilded Age, 1862-1937)

UNCERTAINTY : Education is the path from cocky arrogance to miserable uncertainty. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

UNCERTAINTY : Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man by necessity, uncertain. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

UNCERTAINTY : I've come to doubt all that I once held as true. (Paul Simon: U.S. politician who served both in the House of Representatives and the Senate, 1928-2003)

UNCERTAINTY : If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do. (Unknown Source: )

UNCERTAINTY : In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope (Bernie S. Siegel: U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932)

UNCERTAINTY : Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (John Finley: Canadian singer and songwriter, Born 1945)

UNCERTAINTY : The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

UNCERTAINTY : The future is uncertain. But such uncertainty lies at the very heart of human creativity. (Ilya Prigogine: Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate, 1917-2003)

UNCERTAINTY : The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next. (Ursula K. LeGuin: U.S. author of fantasy and science fiction, Born 1929)

UNCERTAINTY : To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

UNCERTAINTY : Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729)

UNCERTAINTY : Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. (Erich Fromm: German-American psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

UNCERTAINTY : We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. (Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and writer who wrote in defense of the scientific method, 1623-1662)

UNCERTAINTY : When nothing is sure, everything is possible. (Margaret Drabble: English biographer, novelist, and short story writer, Born 1939)

UNCOMMONNESS : The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well. (John D. Rockefeller Sr.: U.S. business magnate and philanthropist who is widely considered the wealthiest U.S. American of all time, and the richest person in modern history, 1839-1937)

UNCONSCIOUS BIAS : Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

UNCONSCIOUS BIAS : It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. (Audre Lorde: U.S. writer, feminist, librarian, and civil rights activist, 1934-1992)

UNCONSCIOUS BIAS : Our minds are primed for us and them . . . . Who we see as one of us determines who we let inside our circle of care and concern. This happens before conscious thought. (Valarie Kaur: U.S. activist, documentary filmmaker, lawyer, educator, and faith leader, Born 1981)

UNDERSTANDING : A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

UNDERSTANDING : Awareness is the product of thinking; understanding, the product of re-thinking. (Unknown Source: )

UNDERSTANDING : Everyone hears only what he understands. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

UNDERSTANDING : Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand. (St. Francis of Assisi: Italian Catholic deacon, preacher, and as a saint is one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226)

UNDERSTANDING : It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. (Unknown Source: )

UNDERSTANDING : Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

UNDERSTANDING : True wisdom comes . . . when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

UNDERSTANDING : Who understands much, forgives much. (Madame de Stael: French-Swiss woman of letters, historian, and author, 1766-1817)

UNDERSTANDING : Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. (Unknown Source: )

UNEMPLOYMENT : Networking is just one letter away from ’not working.’ (Kerry Hannon: U.S. finance advisor, columnist, and author, Born 1960)

UNFAITHFULNESS : Sigh no more, ladies . . . . Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

UNFAMILIARITY : I am, out of the ladies’ company, like a fish out of the water. (Thomas Shadwell: English poet and playwright who in 1689 was appointed Poet Laureate, 1642-1692)

UNHAPPINESS : Hope is the second soul of the unhappy. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

UNHAPPINESS : Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness? (Sophocles: Greek playwright who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496—406 B.C.E.)

UNHAPPINESS : It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. (Marilyn Monroe: U.S. actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962)

UNHAPPINESS : Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

UNHAPPINESS : Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. (Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933)

UNHAPPINESS : Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. (Tom Robbins: U.S. novelist and short-story writer, Born 1932)

UNIFICATION : Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. (Daniel Webster: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

UNIFORMITY : Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. (Arnold Toynbee: British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

UNIFORMITY : The corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. (John P. Barlow: U.S. poet, cattle rancher, and political activist, Born 1947)

UNIONS : Unions are why there are fire exits at your work, and why the doors aren’t padlocked during work hours. (Unknown Source: )

UNIQUENESS : Each and every one of us is a unique musical instrument that echoes her/his distinctive melody. Together we construct the world’s orchestra that makes the universe work. (Unknown Source: )

United States of America : The whole world knows we have it made in America . . . made in China, made in Mexico, made in Japan. (Unknown Source: )

UNITY : Drawing all the wagons in a circle to defend the status quo will not keep out the night. (Unknown Source: )

UNITY : He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings, all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

UNITY : One and Many: One flame, many candles; one sky, many stars; one sea, many rivers . . . . (Noel P. Stookey: U.S. singer and songwriter of the 'Peter, Paul, and Mary' trio, Born 1937)

UNITY : The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. (Somerset W. Maugham: English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer who was among the most popular writers of his era, 1874-1965)

UNITY : Unity does not mean conformity. (Wes Annac: U.S. writer and editor)

UNITY : We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

UNITY : When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion (Ethiopian Proverb: )

UNIVERSALITY : All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

UNIVERSALITY : Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. (German Proverb: )

UNIVERSALITY : Music is the universal language of mankind. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

UNIVERSE : All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

UNIVERSE : Compassion . . . can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. (Albert Schweitzer: French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

UNIVERSE : For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner . . . on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of more than 100 billion galaxies. . . . That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

UNIVERSE : Humankind is but one thread of the web of life. All things are bound together. All things connect. (Chief Seattle: Suquamish and Duwamish Indian chief who was a leading figure among his people who pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, for which the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named, Died 1866)

UNIVERSE : I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey—work of the stars. (Walt Whitman: U.S. essayist, journalist, and poet, known as the 'Father of Free Verse,' 1819-1992)

UNIVERSE : It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

UNIVERSE : It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! (George Gamow: Russian theoretical physicist and cosmologist, 1904-1968)

UNIVERSE : The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

UNIVERSE : The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)

UNIVERSE : The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us. (Bill Watterson: U.S. cartoonist and the author of the comic strip 'Calvin and Hobbes,' Born 1958)

UNIVERSE : The universe is infinite in every direction. (Freeman Dyson: English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, 1923-2020)

UNIVERSE : The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. (Unknown Source: )

UNIVERSE : There are more than 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy. There are somewhere between 100 and 200 billion such galaxies in the universe, and there are many universes. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

UNIVERSE : Who made them, wind and storm? . . . . If heaven itself cannot storm for long / What matter, then, the storms of man? (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

UNIVERSITIES : The three major administration problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. (Clark Kerr: U.S. economist and twelfth president of the University of California, 1911-2003)

UNIVERSITIES (U.S.A.) : A free society depends on free universities. (Felix Frankfurter: Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965)

UNIVERSITIES (U.S.A.) : The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent. (Leon Eisenberg: U.S. child psychiatrist, social psychiatrist, and medical educator, 1922-2009)

UNKNOWABILITY : Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

UNKNOWINGNESS : We know what we are, but know not what we may be. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

UNKNOWNS : God not only plays dice—he throws them in the corner where you can’t see them. (Stephen Hawking: English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)

UNKNOWNS : We have only to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. (Stephen Hawking: English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)

UNLEARNING : The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

UNLEARNING : The most useful piece of learning . . . is to unlearn what is untrue. (Unknown Source: )

UNLEARNING : We now accept that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

UNNATURAL : The unnatural—that too is natural. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

UNPREDICTABILITY : Great leaders use ambiguity but avoid unpredictability. (Martin Dempsey: United States Army general who served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Born 1952)

UNPREDICTABILITY : What a day may bring a day may take away. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

UNREPENTANCE : Like a small gray coffee pot / sits the squirrel. (Humbert Wolfe: Italian-born British poet, man of letters, and civil servant, 1885-1940)

UNSELFISHNESS : Only a life lived in the service of others is worth living. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

UNWILLINGNESS : Nothing is easy to the unwilling. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

USEFULNESS : From a fallen tree, all make kindling. (Unknown Source: )

USELESSNESS : The pitcher that goes too often to the well is broken at last. (English proverb: )

UTTERANCES : When you say ignorant things about women in power, they don’t hear you. But your daughters do. Your mother does. Your sisters and nieces hear you too. (Unknown Source: )