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Us Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
- Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,…
- The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given…
- ...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.
- There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at…
- Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she…
- The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.
- So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any…
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