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- To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...…
- How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
- But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Falling is not important.…
- We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant…
- Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.
- Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.
- There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.
- Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of us…
- Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.
- We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to be slaves...and the…
- We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
- She looks at me out of the side of her uncovered eye. "Chess, Zombie: defending yourself from the move that hasn't happened yet. Does it…
- And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.
- Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.
- Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of…
- What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and…
- I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan.…
- It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.
- Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe…
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