Ours Quotes
1283 quotes by 983 authors
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me…
— Hannah Arendt
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Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment…
— Honore de Balzac
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.…
— Arnold Bennett
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of…
— Annie Besant
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What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on…
— Michael Bloomberg
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa,…
— Bono
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
— Bono
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait…
— Omar N. Bradley
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we…
— Omar N. Bradley
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be…
— Lenny Bruce
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings…
— Sitting Bull
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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to…
— David Cameron
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the…
— Jimmy Carter
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most…
— William Ellery Channing
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their…
— Steve Allen
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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our…
— Grover Cleveland
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