Us Quotes

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

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

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.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.