Us Quotes

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.