Ours Quotes
1283 Ours quotes by 948 unique authors
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were…
— John F. Kennedy
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
— Padma Lakshmi
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To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability,…
— Jon Landau
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Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to…
— Robert Lanza
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
— D. H. Lawrence
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We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.
— David Letterman
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
— John Locke
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our…
— Jose Marti
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To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
— Jose Marti
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Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in…
— Chris Martin
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It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are…
— Joyce Maynard
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find…
— Kent McCord
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
— Marshall McLuhan
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We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in…
— John Stuart Mill
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We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
— Christopher Morley
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The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who…
— Robert Mugabe
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
— Iris Murdoch
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Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and…
— Horatio Nelson
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
— Franklin Pierce
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