Ours Quotes
1283 Ours quotes by 948 unique authors
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Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
— Ray Bradbury
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I rise up on my tiptoes. He's already bending his head down, moving his lips toward mine. And then, well, I haven't exactly studied this,…
— Margaret Haddix
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If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
— David Foster Wallace
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The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American…
— Brennan Manning
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The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around…
— Melina Marchetta
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still,…
— John Fowles
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ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NOT EXIST,…
— Terry Pratchett
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That's what vampires do, Kitten. We always come for what's ours, no matter the circumstances." Bones said.
— Jeaniene Frost
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Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
— Fernando Pessoa
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And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says,…
— Patrick Ness
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I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is…
— Leo Tolstoy
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If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]
— Taylor Swift
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In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas?…
— Orhan Pamuk
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My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?
— Neal Shusterman
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We also mark what's ours. And as I'm not going to see you for twelve hours, I think I'll leave a little more all over…
— J R Ward
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Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours…
— Frederick Buechner
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We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics…
— Orhan Pamuk
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The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about…
— Bob Marley
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Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
— Marilynne Robinson
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What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From…
— Marcel Proust
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Jesus has chosen, even in a resurrected, otherwise perfected body, to retain for the benefit of His disciples the wounds in His hands and in…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours
— Melody Beattie
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It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided.…
— Deb Caletti
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