Us Quotes

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

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.

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