Us Quotes

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.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

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.

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next.

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.

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