Top 100 Us But Quotes
#1. The Celestial (Heavenly Gods) become pleased with the one who isn't hungry for fame and recognition. The whole world can be pleased with us, but because of our hunger they are not pleased with us.
Dada Bhagwan
#3. But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
Tina Turner
#4. We really become one - we might wear different clothes or have different sexual preferences or lifestyles than the person next to us, but really those are just details. The person inside is looking for the same thing as their neighbor - freedom, expression, acceptance, love.
Jewel
#5. I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
Alice Sebold
#6. Everything that we have in actual fact does not belong to us, but to God.
Sunday Adelaja
#7. We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
Lillian Gordy Carter
#8. It is not our ability that limits us but our view/belief of what we can achieve.
John O'Callaghan
#9. This is our tragedy, she said in his words, our fictions are killing us, but if we didn't have those fictions, maybe that would kill us too.
Salman Rushdie
#10. We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.
Wilford Woodruff
#11. Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic.
Rodolfo Llinas
#12. We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us ... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.
Timothy Keller
#13. It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!
Adolf Hitler
#14. Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.
Lewis B. Smedes
#15. Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.
Orison Swett Marden
#16. There is no shame in loving who you love, and there is great honor in doing what is right. It's a pity those two things don't overlap for us, but that makes this moment no less important to me.
Kiera Cass
#17. Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
Charles Caleb Colton
#18. Good habits are enormously freeing - we accomplish good things almost on autopilot. One study from Duke University found that more than 40 percent of the actions people take every day aren't decisions, but habits. Good habits free us, but when sin becomes a habit, our souls lose their freedom.
John Ortberg
#19. Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.
Toni Morrison
#20. You can try to reestablish your connection to Heaven - the connection we all have available to us but have forgotten, or are afraid to use. Then trust the wisdom and guidance that comes forward.
Paul Stefaniak
#21. The most important thing is not what others are planning against us, but what our reaction is to what is happening
Sunday Adelaja
#22. It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
George Bernard Shaw
#24. I think what makes life matter,what makes it good,is knowing that someday we'll die. Maybe death is God's joke on us but I think it is also his gift.We have our allotted time and the is's over.It's up to us to make in meaningful and special.
Philip Carter
#25. We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.
Shirley Chisholm
#26. It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly scar that life's rasp leaves on us, but the fine, almost invisible writing that is engraved on our body.
Gustav Meyrink
#28. Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to us, but we're going to be a lot more cautious about getting involved in long-term, Wilsonian adventures.
Jeff Sessions
#29. We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#30. In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.
Gaston Bachelard
#31. I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain.
Lisa Samson
#32. To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
Baltasar Gracian
#33. Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
#34. Hush now, my dear one ... be not afraid. Night comes upon us, but sunlight will break. Sleep now, my dear one ... let your tears fade. Darkness surrounds us, but someday we'll wake ...
Brandon Sanderson
#35. Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole.- Author Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#36. Unpleasant things are like the rain: sometimes they visit us, but there is no point in worrying about them while the sun shines.
Andrus Kivirahk
#37. But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.
Ron Hall
#38. One can understand nature only when one has learned the language and the signs in which it speaks to us; but this language is mathematics and these signs are methematical figures.
Galileo Galilei
#39. Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.
Barbara Jordan
#40. I don't know if Oron has the power to control us, but if he does, he chooses not to. He gives humans their own free will ... and maybe that's why we are once again facing the darkness.
Melissa Pearl
#41. The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
Susanna Kearsley
#42. You were picking up the vibes off a guy who was supposed to be alive and scaring us, but who was - is - dead and scaring us?
J. Cameron McClain
#43. Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.
Walter Kirn
#44. God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.
Minnie Pearl
#45. You ... see us ... and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.
Carlos Bulosan
#46. We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.
Lauren DeStefano
#48. Men like us are good and proud and strong ... if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses ...
Albert Camus
#49. The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
George Mikes
#50. Tiberias." I've never said his real name before. It doesn't suit him. It doesn't suit us. But that's who he is. "Choose me.
Victoria Aveyard
#51. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.
Jeanette Winterson
#52. Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,
that of being judged by their peers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#53. The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.
Joanna Macy
#54. Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.
Nhat Hanh
#55. Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.
Joel Osteen
#56. We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
Lauryn Hill
#57. The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it. Hence,
John Calvin
#58. Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But ... I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.
Agnes Kamara-umunna
#59. I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream 'secular' press has been very, very nice.
Daniel Smith
#60. God's love for and protection of us are always consistent with his will for us - and his will for us is always consistent with what is best, not only for us, but also for a fallen world that he is always trying to rescue.
Craig Parshall
#61. Jesus came for us, but that doesn't mean he came to please us. Jesus came for us, but he does not answer to us. Jesus came for us, but he will not subject himself to our agenda . . .
John Koessler
#62. We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.
Gregory Palamas
#63. I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
Matthew Fox
#64. His grip might bruise us and his teeth might mark us, but his heart would never. His heart is the best heart.
YellowBella
#65. Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
Augusten Burroughs
#66. Computers think that they are smarter than us. But they're not!
Dean Morris
#67. God has make life simple for us but the choices we do at the end of each day, are the ones that make our lives complicated.
Nthabiseng Motjamela
#68. If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most.
Frank Herbert
#69. Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?
T.A. Barron
#70. Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.
George Washington
#71. We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us ... but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?
J.G. Farrell
#72. It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.
Richard Koch
#73. Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness ... There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn't that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.
Mike Yaconelli
#74. I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.
Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now.
Claire North
#75. Our challenges will probably always be with us but, as we go on our journey of development, we become more aware of them, we come to accept them more, and they have less power over us.
Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman
#76. I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like 'Too Sentimental' is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There's definitely varied songs on there.
Graham Russell
#77. I have a message for president snow, you can bomb us but if we burn, you burn with us!
Susan Collins
#78. The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.
Wess Stafford
#79. Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
William Law
#80. Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.
Charles Spurgeon
#81. Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!
Freddie Mercury
#82. An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.
Poemen
#83. Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.
Pablo Casals
#84. I agree she could finance us, but the only thing I have left is my pride, and I'll eat shit before anyone rips that from me.
Katie McGarry
#85. Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.
Willy Bogner Jr.
#86. Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
Anita Brookner
#87. Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that.
David Levithan
#88. We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!
David Trumble
#89. For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.
Hermann Hesse
#90. I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not "rolled up inside us" but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.
Gardner Murphy
#91. Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?
Louis De Bernieres
#92. We never ask for the bad that happens to us, but it happens. The true test of character is how we go on, what we take from it.
Michelle M. Pillow
#93. God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.
Dwight L. Moody
#95. Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.
Charles Caleb Colton
#96. I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us ... I would find you. I don't care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always.
Sarah J. Maas
#97. You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.
Zola Jesus
#98. I know there is a terrible distance between us. But our bodies are made of stardust, and we are hurtling through space and time, toward the most beautiful collision.
Lang Leav
#99. I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.
Jeanne DuPrau
#100. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Young
