Us Quotes

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.