Us Quotes
47542 quotes by 14169 authors
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
— F. H. Bradley
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
— Cato the Elder
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
— Marcel Proust
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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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People are motivated by fear, but they are not inspired by it. Everything that inspires us comes from love.
— Lance Secretan
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The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.
— George Harrison
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They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had
— Joni Mitchell
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive…
— Naoki Higashida
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among…
— Janet Morris
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He made us laugh, he took my pain away. I love you, Lauretta.
— Marty Feldman
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One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who…
— Candace Pert
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Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
— William Eldridge Odom
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They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then…
— Bella Abzug
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As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.
— Chinua Achebe
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We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American…
— Maya Angelou
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We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people…
— Maya Angelou
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Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe…
— Clive Bell
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I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at…
— Kate Bornstein
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