Us Quotes

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

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.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.