Us Quotes

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.