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- Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history…
- The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the…
- Our lives teach us who we are.
- Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
- I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than…
- I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words.…
- Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in…
- The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the…
- Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or…
- Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone…
- They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that…
- we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the…
- Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.
- Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will…
- Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the…
- Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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