That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.
The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.
Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.
Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened. . . or depressed would be asked,. . . When did you stop dancing?. . . This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.
When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.
I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.
At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.
On the cautionary side, Universal Jurisdiction could be used to achieve some kind of ideologically motivated criminalisation of 'the other' that would discredit and derail a constructive effort to develop a credible meta-law that governs the behaviour of leaders of sovereign states.
Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.
Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.
Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality. Valid for everyone, justified in everyone's eyes by divine or natural law, the right of privative appropriation is objectified in a general illusion, in a universal transcendence, in an essential law under which everyone individually manages to tolerate the more or less narrow limits assigned to his right to live and to the conditions of life in general.
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.