Us Quotes

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.