Us Quotes

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.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.