Us Quotes

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.