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Us Quotes by Naomi Shihab Nye
- I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times…
- Being alive is a common road. It's what we notice makes us different.
- Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
- You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard…
- We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking?…
- Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the…
- like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching…
- Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.
- As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside…
- My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so,…
- I do think that all of us think in poems.
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