Us Quotes

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.