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- My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother…
- There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least…
- Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot…
- But you don't do it. Because guys like us, Red, we know there's a third choice. An alternative to staying simon-pure or bathing in the…
- Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories…
- The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in…
- Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.
- Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill…
- If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're…
- Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't…
- Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a…
- A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars…
- We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
- Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going…
- So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see…
- Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for…
- It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.
- As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society…
- Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
- God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.
- At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to…
- I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose…
- I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that…
- As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the…
- Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but…
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