Ours Quotes
1283 Ours quotes by 948 unique authors
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The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
— Isaac Watts
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Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
— William Cowper
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We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather…
— Paul Gillmor
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When I visited coffee farms in Ethiopia, the farmers could not believe we spend a week's wages in their country on a cup of coffee…
— Colin Firth
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Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the…
— Angie Dickinson
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If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name…
— Isabel Paterson
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
— Lord Byron
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Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Sometimes I wish Marta were more loyal to me. Like the other day. The car parked next to ours had a real dirty windshield; so…
— Jack Handey
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Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
— Margaret Feinberg
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Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of,…
— J M Coetzee
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The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others
— Publilius Syrus
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Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own
— William Shakespeare
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A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
— Malcolm Forbes
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All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
— Julia Cameron
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...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put…
— Mark Twain
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Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
— Judith Guest
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The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve…
— Warren Buffett
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Ours is a bad, bad world, but does that mean nothing's good? Does it mean we have run out of things for which to be…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.
— Michel de Montaigne
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To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in…
— Joan Lunden
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Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the…
— John Templeton
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On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
— Alexander the Great
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To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than…
— Albert Schweitzer
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