Ours Quotes
1283 Ours quotes by 948 unique authors
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The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist.…
— Jeanette Winterson
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These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here
— Emile Zola
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The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is…
— Thomas Paine
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What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.
— David McGee
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Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death' "Ours is stronger than…
— Cassandra Clare
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Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
— Mark Twain
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I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings,…
— Stephenie Meyer
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We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the…
— Mark Millar
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The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of…
— Thomas M. Disch
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It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything,…
— Aldous Huxley
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours…
— C.S. Lewis
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Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.
— David Levithan
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Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged…
— Kenneth Grahame
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OR am I the only warlock you know?" "No... but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.
— Cassandra Clare
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Look at me!" I roar. "Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a…
— Darren Shan
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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the…
— Jodi Picoult
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Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good.
— Elizabeth Chandler
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By the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours,…
— David Levithan
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These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.
— David Levithan
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We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must…
— Ayn Rand
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The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with…
— Andrew Murray
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But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have what they want,…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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