Top 100 Among Us Quotes
#1. We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun; and the best among us cannot pretend they deserve - or could contrive - anything better.
J.B. Priestley
#2. I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?
Jens Voigt
#3. There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
Charles Eastman
#4. Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.
Janet Morris
#5. There is not a man born among us who dreams - at first - of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.
Michelle Sagara
#6. It's abundantly clear that we already have extraterrestrials living among us, and people are stepping forward who can communicate with them.
Sylvia Browne
#7. The waking world. Even the most cynical among us must greet it with a touch of hope. Maybe it's a chemical reaction, our thoughts communing with sunrise and creating that brief, intense faith in newness.
David Levithan
#8. Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?
Kamand Kojouri
#9. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" -St. John 1:14-
"I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details" -Einstein-
"It's not who you know, It's 'You Know Who!" -GoldenEagle-
1 St. John 2 Einstein 3 GoldenEagle
#10. The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages Pt.1, 41
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#11. She looked at the door, and wondered if they meant it. Could she leave now? "We've no cowards among us," the man said. "Good." Teia wanted to shout, Wait! I think I might be a coward! Can I think on it a bit longer?
Brent Weeks
#12. When dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"
above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it.
Marianne Moore
#13. Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
Marianne Williamson
#14. When law enforcers are shown to have such unswerving integrity, only the most churlish among us would question the methods they use to "get their man." Constitutional guarantees are regarded as bothersome "technicalities" that impede honest law enforcers in the performance of their duties.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#15. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks.
Ally Condie
#16. I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us ... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. Who among us is not ever-changing? Ever evolving into someone new? Maybe someone better ... or someone worse.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.
Jane Rule
#19. Every one of us is a walking set of contradictions. The great among us are no different, except that their contradictions tend to run to extremes.
Jeffrey S. Young
#20. I must note here that even among us the process of the hardening, the crystallization of life has evidently not been completed; there are still some steps to be ascended before we reach the ideal. The ideal (clearly) is the condition where nothing happens any more.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#21. Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.
Joe Taslim
#22. Now there are those among us who are trying to serve the Lord without offending the devil.
Marion G. Romney
#23. The most devout among us become atheistic in this connection; we do not believe God, we enthrone common sense and tack the name of God on to it. We do lean to our own understanding, instead of trusting God with all our hearts.
Oswald Chambers
#24. We mistakenly measure strength by comparing battle scars, when the truly strong among us are those who know the battle is never really over.
Esther Mitchell
#25. There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.
Frances Harper
#26. Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Loren Eiseley
#27. Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
Samuel Johnson
#28. There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.
Arthur Miller
#29. We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.
Richard Rohr
#30. Dr. Robert Hare (author of Without Conscience: The Disturbing World Of The Psychopaths Among Us)
Mick Strawser
#31. We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.
Charles Lenox Remond
#32. The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.'
Philip Schaff
#33. Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we like to eat out at restaurants, go on trips, buy nice things, not to mention pay rent and meet the cost of living.
Stella Young
#34. Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#35. We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. I believe men need to get together and talk about what it means to be male - to share dreams, business ideas, ministry visions, and struggles, and to pray together and declare war on the weakness among us.
Bruce Lengeman
#37. If there were no fools,' said Circumbright, 'either among us or among them, we could co-inhabit the earth.
there's the flaw in any compromise negotiation - the fact of fools, both among the Teleks and the common men.
Jack Vance
#39. There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
Bob Dylan
#40. Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
Horace Mann
#41. We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us.
Pope Francis
#42. Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.
Martin O'Malley
#43. Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space.
Martin Rees
#45. The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
Helen Vendler
#46. You know, Manetto, since I was a child I've always felt something else was among us. Invisible spirits that could guide or at least influence our actions. Perhaps they're the ones that stop us from changing, that make us repeat the same mistakes generation after generation.
Livio Gambarini
#47. Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. God answered our question before we asked it. So we'd see his answer, he lit the sky with a star. So we'd hear it, he filled the night with a choir. So we'd believe it, he did what no man had ever dreamed. He became flesh and came to live among us. He
Max Lucado
#49. Even those fortunate ones among us who get sex right don't necessarily feel compelled to talk about it. For all they know, everybody else is having the same experience. Sex being a naturally private act, we don't share experiences with others the way we would about an especially good steakhouse.
Michael Rittenhouse
#50. Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love,' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.
Sara Douglass
#51. No guile?
Nay, but so strangely
He moves among us. Not this
Man but Barabbas! Release to us
Barabbas!
Adelaide Crapsey
#52. Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
Hany Abu-Assad
#53. He walks among us, but is not with us.
J.J. Abrams
#55. Religious moderation springs from the fact that even the least educated person among us simply knows more about certain matters than anyone did two thousand years ago.
Sam Harris
#56. What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.
Janet Morris
#57. By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
Rachel Carson
#58. At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks ... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the.
Ally Condie
#59. There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather a man who stands lost in admiration at the gun that is raised to shoot him.
Ahdaf Soueif
#60. Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them.
Sam Harris
#61. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.
Pete Cashmore
#62. There is a God and there is a Devil. The Bible is the living word of God and there are more Antichrists living among us then you could ever believe or even truly understand
Stephen Biro
#63. It is always dangerous to view our collective lives without the benefit of history or without regard to diversity among us.
Rebekah Nathan
#64. The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.
Wil S. Hylton
#65. 'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.
George Farquhar
#66. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away ... That they walk among us. Teach our children. Inscrutable. Brass-faced.
David Foster Wallace
#67. The end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.
Patricia Hamill
#68. As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
Justin Welby
#69. Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.
Joseph Chamberlain
#70. George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.
Matt Taibbi
#71. Our national, criminal cases bear witness precisely to something universal, to some general malaise that has taken root among us, and with which, as with universal evil, it is already very difficult to contend.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#72. The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
Carl Levin
#73. It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.
Alfred Polgar
#74. All creation begins with thought ("Proceeds from the Father"). All creation then moves to word ("Ask and you shall receive, speak and it shall be done unto you"). All creation is fulfilled in deed ("And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us").
Neale Donald Walsch
#75. [ ... ] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'
'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.
Charles Dickens
#76. SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.
Jill Tarter
#77. The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#78. There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all
Zooey Deschanel
#79. Who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud?
Lucille Clifton
#80. Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed so profusely among us during the last decade, that he should be an expert indeed who ventures to add thereto.
Harrison Gray Otis Dwight
#81. what the melancholy among us sometimes know, though may not be able to articulate, is that coming to the end of our resources may be our only hope for coming to the beginning of something more substantial than self.
Sharon McMahon Moffitt
#82. The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.
Danny Danon
#83. Jesus told us that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us.
Michael Moore
#84. I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
Oliver Goldsmith
#85. Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal.
R.C. Robertson-Glasgow
#86. We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie.
David Pajo
#87. Some people burn all of their energy helping themselves, while some use all of it helping others. The happiest among us do a little of both.
John Avery
#88. I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest
#89. To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.
Pope Francis
#90. Thanks to Reagan, the insane now walk among us babbling about Starbucks and sodomite semen in this zombie apocalypse we call the 21st century.
St. Sukie De La Croix
#91. Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective.
Dan Simmons
#92. Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it's something that truly exists in all of us.
Will Smith
#93. No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
Joseph Brant
#94. As to who among us is a ghost and who not I have nothing to say: it is a question we can only stare at in silence, like a bird before a snake, hoping it will not swallow us.
J.M. Coetzee
#96. Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.
Plutarch
#98. We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.
Jean Liedloff
#100. I used to doubt the existence of angels, not realizing they were men and women walking among us.
Dannika Dark
