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- Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way.
- He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged…
- Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
- Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.
- Only he with the hobbled foot fully knows the beauty of running. Only he with the severed ear can apprehend what the sweetest music must…
- Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It…
- You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give…
- People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way…
- Not everyone is born a witch or a saint. Not everyone is born talented, or crooked, or blessed; some are born definite in no particular…
- The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of…
- So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
- Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it…
- We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.…
- Forget us, forget us all, it makes no difference now, but don't forget we loved it when we were alive.
- How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free.
- Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children…
- Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
- Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that…
- They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong