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Us Quotes by John Steinbeck
- It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does…
- We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of…
- The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making…
- 'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and…
- There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil…
- What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.
- A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years…
- So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them…
- Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?
- How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?
- Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the…
- We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.
- No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.
- Why, Tom - us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna…
- George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches,…
- A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a…
- We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
- Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to
- But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand…
- And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would…
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