Us Quotes

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.