Us Quotes

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.