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Us Quotes by Norman Maclean
- He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman…
- I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat…
- We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us.…
- It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
- In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana,…
- Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the…
- Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death,"…
- At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love…
- Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to…
- Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect
- A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.
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