« All Us Quotes · Pico Iyer's Page
Us Quotes by Pico Iyer
- In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have…
- Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
- For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.
- Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it…
- The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
- The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how…
- Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All…
- To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole…
- All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an…
- More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the…
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