Us Quotes
47542 Us quotes by 14169 unique authors
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It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for…
— David Attenborough
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
— David Attenborough
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The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
— Margaret Atwood
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in…
— Chinua Achebe
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from,…
— Margaret Atwood
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I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us.…
— Margaret Atwood
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
— Margaret Atwood
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
— Saint Augustine
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
— Saint Augustine
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
— Saint Augustine
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to…
— Jane Austen
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
— Paul Auster
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories,…
— Diane Ackerman
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
— Teresa of Avila
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to…
— Teresa of Avila
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All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.
— Teresa of Avila
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this…
— Teresa of Avila
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear…
— Teresa of Avila
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