Top 100 About Us Quotes
#1. My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.
Dianna Agron
#2. The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only in retrospect that we know which is which.
Cheryl Strayed
#3. Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.
James Dwight Dana
#4. But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us ... and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to be left alone to eat and breed and eat and breed, just like us.
William T. Vollmann
#5. But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans.
Caitlin Moran
#6. Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.
Graham Cooke
#7. I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. ...Our Lord's words to Peter, as recorded in St. John's gospel: 'When you are young, you go where you wish, but when you are old, others will take you where you do not wish to go.'...I have always thought that it is a general reflection about us all.
Jennifer Worth
#9. One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#12. To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
Tim Gunn
#14. And you wanted to escape,' a man near me whispered to another man. 'You wanted to run off into the woods and fight. But do you see? Do you see what the rest of them think about us? These people would sell you back to the Nazis for a sack of potatoes and then toast you at their dinner table.
Alan Gratz
#15. When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.
Herbert McCabe
#16. The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.
Sherry Turkle
#17. Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.
William Henry Willimon
#18. I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time for us.
Chase Utley
#19. Avoiding sin isn't about us not getting in trouble; it is about us trusting that the Creator knows his creation best and has designed the world to work in a certain way.
Jefferson Bethke
#20. I want everyone inside of Microsoft to take that responsibility. This is not about top-line growth. This is not about bottom-line growth. This is about us individually having a growth mindset.
Satya Nadella
#21. We have to take care about nature as much as nature is taking care about us. Nature is very kind with us. And if you want to enjoy the gifts of nature and the promises of nature, we have to defer to nature and its needs, its rules, its norms.
Shimon Peres
#22. Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
John Maeda
#23. We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not. Our main obligation is to be forthright - to elucidate the nature of our affection when such elucidation would be meaningful or clarifying.
Cheryl Strayed
#24. I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.
John Kasich
#25. If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.
Tom Althouse
#26. Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
Douglas Coupland
#27. Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.
Henri Nouwen
#28. Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
John Locke
#29. The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. 'They Don't Care About Us' by Michael Jackson - This song makes me want to dance, and I fell in love with it watching 'This Is It' with my kids.
Summer Sanders
#31. What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#32. Our churches are being destroyed by gossip. What is it about us that wants to hear all the garbage?
Neil T. Anderson
#33. Our reputations do not come from how we talk about ourselves. Our reputations come from how others talk about us.
Simon Sinek
#34. I am so sorry to see the state of reading in such decline. I think it says something really scary and terrible about us as a culture. I think it does have to do with everyone's total global embrace of technology.
Lee Smith
#35. Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce
#36. People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
#37. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun, - part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.
John Muir
#38. Let's gossip.... let's tell everyting about us....
Deyth Banger
#39. Amy knew that was what I had loved most about us back when I loved us: not the big moments, not the Romantic with capital-R moments, but our secret inside jokes.
Gillian Flynn
#40. We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.
John Petrucci
#41. We start off thinking the whole world is about us," Lucy said. "Once you learn how little it cares about you, that's when you stop taking things personal.
Edward W. Robertson
#42. We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#43. I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.
Charles Dickens
#44. That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.
Ravi Zacharias
#46. This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us
Steve Jobs
#47. Lately
I've been dreaming about you
About us
Sharing our secrets
Talking, even if we argued
Kept talking, till we slept
Maybe I woke up
On the wrong side of bed
Maybe I thought about you
Just a little too much
Irum Zahra
#48. Our parents don't know us ... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.
Ellen Sussman
#49. The only difference about us in here and you guys out there is we're braver for about 15 minutes longer. That's it.
Travis Browne
#50. God makes the world not out of necessity but by a divine Whim, and the world he makes is a whimsically romantic place. We're all crazy about each other because we're made in the image of Someone who's been crazy about us.
Robert Farrar Capon
#51. I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment. But it doesn't bother me. Gay people are fighting the same kind of stereotyping that bodybuilders are: People have certain misconceptions about them just as they do about us.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#52. Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
Andrew Vachss
#53. Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler
#54. My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.
Chris Abani
#55. Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.
Steve Jobs
#56. The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri
#57. Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
Eric Hoffer
#58. My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
Bailee Madison
#59. We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.
Rodney Brooks
#60. For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.
Anthony Esolen
#61. The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.
Brian Bell
#62. The soul mate is what we aspire to and like to understand about us, is what we deem to be perfection, purity and endless regarding our own being.
Sorin Cerin
#63. I don't understand. How does reading stories about others answer those questions for me?" "That is what I'm hoping you will understand - every story we read, Sang Ly, is about us, in one way or another.
Camron Wright
#64. The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.
Richard E. Blackwelder
#65. Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.
Hudson Taylor
#66. Will they attack us? Yes. Will they smear our backgrounds and distort our records? Undoubtedly. Will they lie about us, harass our families, namecall to try to intimidate us? They will. There's nothing safe about it. But is it worth it? Well, let me ask you. Is freedom worth it? Is America worth it?
Christine O'Donnell
#67. If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.
Sarah Dessen
#69. World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It's being fulfilled every day round about us.
Billy Graham
#70. In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.
John Piper
#71. I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old.
V.C. Andrews
#72. Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.
Henry Becque
#73. Walk with this tomorrow night. If nothing happens, then
don't come back. Forget about us, this place, but if you feel the
Nightwalker in you awaken, then return to where you belong.
Return to me, and the streets will run red with blood.
Keith Kekic
#74. Don't let pain define you. I do that a lot ... but we can fight it all together. That's what I love about us and our fans. we fight together.
Hayley Williams
#75. With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us.
John Steinbeck
#76. Good Friday is not about us trying to "get right with God." It is about us entering the difference between God and humanity and just touching it for a moment. Touching the shimmering sadness of humanity's insistence that we can be our own gods, that we can be pure and all-powerful.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#77. How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
Antonin Artaud
#78. Linda tousled his hair. "What about us girls?"
Jason blushed. "You know what I meant."
"I know." Linda leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks."
Jason turned an uncomfortable shade of purple.
James Rollins
#79. Negative thoughts about us and our life may deprive us of our health
Sunday Adelaja
#80. We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#81. How could everyone be so wrong about us? It is impossible that she could make me weak. Next to her, I feel invincible.
Michelle Hodkin
#82. Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.
Deborah Needleman
#83. When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
Philip Gibbs
#84. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson
#85. Sophie Bach from The Maker:
You're a human being with a personality and a will, and you make choices and think and create. Is there no meaning to you, Adrien Bach?
And what about us? Is the way we feel about each other just simulated emotions from some biological process - nothing more?
Wes Moore
#86. I'm a culture hero," he said. "We do the same shit gods do, we just screw up more and nobody worships us. They tell stories about us, but they tell the ones that make us look bad along with the ones where we came out fairly okay.
Neil Gaiman
#87. It still hurts and I think the 'hurting phase' might take a long time. The fact that we can't hear you laugh breaks us into pieces. One thing's for sure though, you don't need to worry about us. We'll get by...
Bianca Salindong
#88. As we learn about the ancient Goddess religion and cultures, we get to re-evaluate the information that has come to us through patriarchal sources. We start to wake up to the fact that everything that was written about us is without us.
Tabby Biddle
#89. What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.
Dwight L. Moody
#90. Our minds are the most mysterious things about us.
Elsa Barker
#91. It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.
Charlotte Bronte
#92. Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.
Theodore Parker
#93. The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands ... It is here about us or it is nowhere.
Allen Tucker
#94. Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.
Toni Morrison
#95. Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain!
Angie Stone
#96. One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other.
Hazel Hawke
#97. The world doesn't give even the slightest damn about us or our petty problems.
Harlan Coben
#98. Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.
Mo Abudu
#99. My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
Ted Dekker
#100. Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.
Rhonda Britten
