Us Quotes

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.