Us Quotes

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don't do to other nations what we don't want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.