Us Quotes

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.