Us Quotes

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

For many of us who were born and raised in this country, including me, it's sometimes easy to forget how special America really is.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.