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Our Own Quotes by Jimmy Carter
- We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
- Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that…
- Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially secure, well fed…
- We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times…
- Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who…
- Our goals are the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in…
- We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of…
More Our Own Quotes
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann