Us Quotes

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.