Us Quotes

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

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.