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Us Quotes by Willa Cather
- Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side,…
- The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us…
- When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us…
- What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying…
- Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.
- It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional…
- life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
- Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
- It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our…
- Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in…
- Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to…
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