Ours Quotes
1283 Ours quotes by 948 unique authors
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Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions…
— Steven Pinker
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's…
— Dan Quayle
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It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in…
— Thomas de Quincey
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If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical…
— Tariq Ramadan
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Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here…
— Ayn Rand
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Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We…
— Robert Redford
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This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India…
— Harry Reid
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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
— Bertrand Russell
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
— James Thurber
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You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in…
— George Saunders
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
— Olive Schreiner
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I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can…
— Martin Scorsese
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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the…
— David Seabury
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One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
— Rob Sheffield
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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the…
— Lewis Thomas
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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who…
— Pete Townshend
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It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can…
— Harry S. Truman
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I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get…
— Ted Turner
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks.…
— Gore Vidal
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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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