Us Quotes

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.