Top 100 All We Are Quotes
#1. All we are is who we surround ourselves with and let into our hearts.
Nancy S. Thompson
#2. After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.
Robertson Davies
#3. Is this all we are? A necklace of chemicals? Where, in the double helix, does the soul lie?
Tess Gerritsen
#4. Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals at all. We are the result of thousands of years of human experience, human endeavor and struggle.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#5. The truth about stories is that that's all we are.
Thomas King
#6. The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.
Eugene Jarvis
#7. One of the blessings that comes from paying a full tithing is developing faith to live an even higher law. To live in the celestial kingdom, we must live the law of consecration. There we must be able to feel that all we are and all we have belong to God.
Henry B. Eyring
#8. You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
Julia Roberts
#9. Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
Roger A. Caras
#10. After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
Sylvia Plath
#11. And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
Ernest Gaines
#12. We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#13. I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.
Jose Maria Aznar
#14. We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.
Brian Falkner
#15. For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
Desmond Tutu
#16. When we blaze, when we fight, when we rejoice, then I am all us, for that is all we are. When I am ... afraid ... we do not understand, do not like these things. We are me. It is ... frightening, having to be me.
Kate Griffin
#17. We are hunters all. We are, all of us, monstrumologists. And Pellinore Warthrop was the best of us, for he had found the courage to turn and face the most terrifying monster of all.
Rick Yancey
#18. As Zapffe concluded, we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see,
Thomas Ligotti
#19. So let me be clear, Collective bargaining isn't a right, it is an expensive entitlement. Once and for all, we are giving the taxpayers a voice in this debate. We put the power back in the hands of the people.
Scott Walker
#20. Maybe this is what life is like - we try to see clearly but what we see is never clear and is never going to be. The more we strive the murkier it becomes. All we are left with are approximations, nuances, multitudes of plausible explanations. Take your pick.
William Boyd
#21. The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to this cave. We know the mess we bring and the often distracted heart that brings it. But this is all we have
all we are. One stretches out his arms to receive.
M. Basil Pennington
#22. All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
#23. I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more
than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper
sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are
trying to save ourselves.
Ted Turner
#24. A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes.
This isn't all we are, but it is a part of who we are. The only question I have when I'm with someone is, Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?
Anna White
#25. A celebration of insignificance. Is that all we are in the end?
Steven Erikson
#26. Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.
Ernest Holmes
#27. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song? (Sky is Over)
Serj Tankian
#28. I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know ...
Arthur Miller
#29. Belief that we know all & we are always right
Leads to distance & silence
Keep learning & Keep Expressing ...
Adil Adam Memon
#30. I believe that connecting with other moms is so important; after all, we are all on this crazy journey together and no one understands what we're going through better than each other.
Ali Landry
#31. My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.
Hope Solo
#32. Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems. And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.
Paul Ryan
#33. We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
Elvis Costello
#34. Is that all we have left? Is that all we are? Lights on a map that are slowly dying, hanging on for nothing?
Carrie Ryan
#35. The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.'
Shane Smith
#36. I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
Toni Morrison
#37. Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.
Herman Melville
#38. All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
Taiichi Ohno
#39. After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
Henry Howarth Bashford
#40. Motherhood unwittingly molds us into all we are now, or are - destined to be.
Eleesha
#42. Those who live no more, whom we loved, echo still within our thoughts, our words, our hearts. And what they did and who they were becomes a part of all we are, forever.
Richard Fife
#43. I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been ...
John Geddes
#44. So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#45. We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
Graham Greene
#46. Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.
Rachel Hartman
#47. We must guard jealously all we have inherited from a long past, all we are capable of creating in a trying present, and all we are determined to preserve in a foreseeable future. Art
Robert M. Edsel
#48. Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
Joyce Meyer
#49. It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is woking.
Douglas Adams
#50. If we love God above all, we are tapping into the source of His love.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it - how we treat our fellow man.
Alan Gratz
#53. The smile he gave her was barely one at all. We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.
Kristin Hannah
#54. If we compete with ourselves and not with others, then it does not matter who is behind us or ahead of us; our goal is to become and achieve all we are capable of being and doing, and this becomes the measure of our satisfaction.
Myles Munroe
#55. Every sunset is different, because every day sun is different, clouds are different, space is different, reflections are different, mountains are different, fogs are different, and above all, we are different!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.
Oswald Chambers
#57. Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.
Brent Weeks
#58. If her death taught me anything, it's this. Cherish the time you have. Don't worry about tomorrow. Right now is all we are promised.
J.A. Saare
#59. Everything spiritual manifests itself visually, everything which is visual turns into spiritual energy, I don't think this is so difficult to grasp. After all, we are born knowing we have a body and a soul: why not understand that sex also has them?
Paulo Coelho
#61. Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?
Then all we are left with are stories.
Hanan Al-Shaykh
#64. The truth about stories is, that's all we are.
Thomas King
#66. Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man's memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.
Mark Lawrence
#67. When we say we have given up hope, all we are really doing is challenging Madame Fortune to prove us wrong.
Sarah Bower
#68. And it seemed to me that longing was everything, longing is all we are.
Valerie Martin
#69. We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
Angelina Jolie
#70. All we are is proof that love can survive anything. You and I, we're heavy hitters, but even at our worst, we still couldn't break this bond. If you're honest with yourself, we didn't even come close.
R.K. Lilley
#71. We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability - and this, this is more than enough.
Sera Break
#72. Why not add another yarn? That's all we are in the end, any of us, a couple of dozen unreliable stories.
Iain Sinclair
#74. Sometimes we don't discover our purpose until the darkest moments strip us of everything and all we are left with is brokenness and heartache. It is in these moments, ironically, when hope becomes our strength and carries us
Danny Gokey
#75. Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
Loren Eiseley
#76. Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.
Tullian Tchividjian
#77. The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.
Patti LuPone
#78. The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#79. Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
A Brave and Startling Truth.
Maya Angelou
#80. Believers need the gift of discernment, or at least respect for the opinions of those who have it ... believers are to test the various spirits and doctrines that abound.
Most of all we are to test them against the
standard of the Word of God.
Billy Graham
#81. Underneath it all, we are wild and we know it.
Reginald Ray
#82. I see how you look at me," spits the hateful man. He thinks we look upon him with the evil eye when we are not looking at him that way at all. We are just looking at him. It's because he can't accept the hate inside of himself that he projects it onto us.
Kate McGahan
#83. Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#84. Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance.
Tom Hodgkinson
#85. We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.
Walt Disney
#86. Lola swore she would never return to that terrible country. On one of our last nights as novios she said, Ten million Trujillos is all we are.
Junot Diaz
#87. I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.
Geronimo
#88. But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.
Vladimir Nabokov
#89. Humility is in reality the opposite of self-deprecation. It is the grateful recognition that we are precious in God's eyes and that all we are is pure gift.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#90. Life is ephemeral; each moment passes quickly, a blur of color on a fast moving subway car. There and gone and all we are left with is the imprint of what once was.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#91. I'm sure the holy refrigerator is packed solid with cartons of Blue Bell ice cream - times a million. All those amazing flavor combinations minus the calories and fat grams, of course. After all, we are talking about heaven here, amen?
Diane Moody
#92. Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.
Frederick Lenz
#93. All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
Ali Smith
#94. You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.
Bob Dylan
#95. Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
Jasper Fforde
#96. If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.
Jojo Moyes
#97. Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not - self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.
Pam Brown
#98. All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.
Steve Jobs
#99. We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.
H. Rider Haggard
#100. But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.
Albert Einstein
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