Us Quotes

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?