Us Quotes

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.