Ours Quotes

1283 Ours quotes by 948 unique authors

Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into… — Lamar Boschman
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to… — Sigurd F. Olson
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,… — Mark Hertsgaard
Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice… — Jimmy Carter
But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global… — Jim Wallis
We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads. — Christopher Bollen
The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others. — Publilius Syrus
Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only… — John Ciardi
HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog… — Ambrose Bierce
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know… — Thomas Carlyle
Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting… — Edwin Arnold
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours. — Bill Vaughan
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of… — Horace Mann
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. — Immanuel Kant
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads… — Theophile Gautier
Baba tells us that when we serve another, we should remind ourselves that we are serving the Divinity within that other. This is something that… — Sathya Sai Baba
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how… — Dante Alighieri
In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided… — Alexander MacLaren
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig… — Steven Pinker
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of… — Susan Cain
Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix. — Amy Poehler
Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to… — John Wright
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember… — Marcus Borg

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