Us Quotes

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.