Top 100 Us That Quotes
#1. The labyrinth literally reintroduces the experience of walking a clearly defined path. This reminds us that there is a path, a process that brings us to unity, to the center of our beings. In the simple act of walking, the soul finds solace and peace.
Lauren Artress
#2. There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#3. When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.
Martin O'Malley
#4. Comfort makes fools of us that way, and a kid gets faith back quick.
Mary Karr
#5. It's not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet.
Daniel Goleman
#6. The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
Pope Benedict XVI
#7. This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!
Laurie Halse Anderson
#8. Psalm 107:2 says, "Let the redeemed of the LORD say so." The Scriptures tell us that death and life are in the power of our words (Prov. 18:21). Think about that - death and life are released by what we say. Make sure the words you speak are life-producing words. S
Dutch Sheets
#9. We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
Oswald Chambers
#10. After a while, footsteps sounded on the flagstones outside and there was a gentle tap at the door. Of course, one of them would come. So close were we, the seven of us, that no childhood injury went unnoticed, no slight, real or imagined, went unaddressed, no hurt was endured without comfort.
Juliet Marillier
#11. Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
Anna Deavere Smith
#13. Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'
Robin Quivers
#14. In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#15. Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.
Steve C. Roberts
#16. Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.
Augustus William Hare
#17. This is what games do: they promise us that we can repair a personal inadequacy - an inadequacy that they produce in us in the first place.
Jesper Juul
#18. Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin
#19. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not
always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once
but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have
because history has shown us that courage can be contagious
and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama
#20. When circumstances appear impossible, faith reminds us that apparent impossibilities are wondrous opportunities for God to move.
Cheryl Zelenka
#21. Love is strong and powerful. Love is fearless. At least that's how God's love is and I believe it is His love in us that enables us to love others.
Roxanna Aliba Kazibwe
#22. Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don't sense it.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
Walter Murch
#24. Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.
John Calvin
#25. It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
C.D. Wright
#26. Being who we are requires that we can talk openly about things that are important to us, that we take a clear position on where we stand on important emotional issues, and that we clarify the limits of what is acceptable and tolerable to us in a relationship.
Harriet Lerner
#27. I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!
Elton John
#28. Child: Why on this night do we eat Hot Fudge Sundaes? Adult: To remind us that being Jewish is like having your birthday every day!! Plus they're delicious!
Jon Stewart
#29. It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
#30. It's necessary when you follow the path of love to love those around you first. Desire tells us that we should have someone else in our life.
Frederick Lenz
#31. The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases - or ever has released at any moment in History - a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day - and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#32. I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.
Adam McKay
#33. History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Gerald R. Ford
#34. A Course in Miracles tells us that although 'we think that without the ego, all would be chaos, the opposite is true. Without the ego, all would be love.'
Marianne Williamson
#35. And, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions
Thomas More
#36. If epigenetic changes caused by trauma such as the Holocaust, or enslavement, can be passed through generations, as researchers have recently found, perhaps some of us are hard-wired to be afraid because our history has taught us that fear is a kind of armor.
Amy Brill
#37. Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.
Leo Buscaglia
#38. At the same time, in death he would succeed where all others had failed, so that instead of an angel guarding the entrance to God's presence so we cannot enter in, we find an angel at the empty tomb telling us that Christ has gotten out.
Kevin DeYoung
#39. Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight ... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.
Stephanie Mills
#40. Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
#41. Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#42. They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. This is too much, even for a joke. But it is not a subject for levity; it is an exceedingly serious matter.
Eugene V. Debs
#43. We've heard from people all around the world, telling us that this is their reality. People need a way to connect the sometimes really hard reality in which they wake up each morning with the movement of the Spirit.
Shane Claiborne
#44. There was never any question, not for either of us, that we'd stay together after high school. Richie Wilson was the love of my life.
Jessica Warman
#45. Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.
Jim MacLaren
#46. Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished.
Joseph Prince
#47. Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
Henry Ward Beecher
#48. It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
Pema Chodron
#49. One of the voices that we struggle with inside is the voice of religion. Religion teaches us some very strict things about God and our relationship with God. Some religions teach us that we aren't worthy of having a personal relationship with God.
Echo Bodine
#50. Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus
#51. We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
Lauryn Hill
#52. Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
Isaac Newton
#53. We want each other. We want to figure out what this thing is between us that's haunting me day and night. You're in every breath I take Raven. It's driving me mad.
Jennifer Probst
#54. Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
Lois Wyse
#55. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." "Miss
Harper Lee
#56. I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate that box: that seemingly hugely narrowed set of options. I also like the way in which it reminds us that we connect to the real world. That our relationship to the world matters.
Jim Shepard
#57. A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
Peggy Noonan
#58. It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into the stands.
Isaiah Thomas
#59. We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation] ... This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.
Lorenzo Snow
#60. Sin is a necessary piece of our mental furniture because it reminds us that life is a moral affair.
David Brooks
#61. What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?
Andy Stanley
#62. Easter time reminds us that we have every right to believe that this hope is based on time-tested truths and a solid foundation.
Sarah Palin
#63. THE study of suggestion has shown us that the thoughts of hystericals are not equilibrated; that under diverse influences one of them may develop to an extreme extent and live, so to say, isolated, its own life, to the great detriment of the mental organism.
Anonymous
#64. Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it changes life and it changes the heart.
Pope Francis
#65. It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
Charles Kuralt
#66. The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but ... what we are meant to be.
Madeleine L'Engle
#67. I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.
Rain Phoenix
#68. Old age tells us that we ourselves have failed often, have never really done anything completely right, have never truly been perfect - anad that is completely all right. We are who we are - and so is everyone else.
Joan D. Chittister
#69. The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us ... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.
Pope Francis
#70. The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple's responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.
Scot McKnight
#71. It should not surprise us that there must be other civilizations in our galaxy and throughout the entire universe.
Robert K. G. Temple
#72. Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something,
Sylvia A. Earle
#73. Dear master, I think it would be better for each of us to watch ourself. To look after oneself means to look after both of us. That way I am sure we will avoid any accidents and will earn enough to eat.' " The Buddha said: "The child spoke correctly.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#74. To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
John Calvin
#75. Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.
Stephen King
#76. Instead, we try to give them affection, confidence and guidance, more or less in that order, because experience has shown us that those are their most immediate needs.
E.R. Braithwaite
#77. That is what all creatures great and small are made of. Leftover stardust. An atom exploded, and all the dust became the planets, the stars...and us. That's all anything amounts to.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#78. They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#79. If we want to, say, develop schools in disadvantaged communities that can successfully counteract the poisonous atmosphere of their surrounding neighborhoods, this tells us that we're probably better off building lots of little schools than one or two big ones.
Malcolm Gladwell
#80. I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.
J. C. Watts
#81. We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.
Ramsey Clark
#82. Animals remind us that all beings who walk, stand, swim, crawl, or fly are radiant, mysterious, and unique expressions of the Source. Every species, every culture, has it's own genius.
Linda Bender
#83. Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.
Paola Antonelli
#84. It is their attachment to us rather than their independence from us that we value in our pets.
M. Scott Peck
#85. I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
Stella Young
#86. America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.
Joe Biden
#87. Despite the fact that logic tells us that we should not trust anyone, in any situation where the unknown variables are too many or the risks too high, we nevertheless go ahead and take what can only be called a leap of faith.
David Amerland
#88. A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.
Edwin Meese
#89. Pg 12
"The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I wont do this again, I must become different." And we succeed
eventually.
Frank Delaney
#90. I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
Rachel Roy
#91. The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#92. It tells us that it is the Entrepreneurial Perspective that says it's not the commodity or the work itself that is important. What's important is the business: how it looks, how it acts, how it does what it is intended to do.
Anonymous
#93. Staring us in the face is the desperate plight of the poor. We don't need statistics to tell us that. They are flesh and blood people like ourselves, often out of work, forced out of rented premises, without money and without food.
Eva Burrows
#94. The gift of biblical wisdom, in other words, is not all about getting a privileged seat in God's traffic control tower of the world. We don't get to understand why things happen the way they do. We are mistaken if we think wisdom gives us that sort of insight.
Jeffrey Meyers
#95. As to his gospel, Jesus Christ came into the world as the image of the invisible God to communicate to us that not only did we not need to be afraid of God, but that God is more for us than we are ourselves or one another. God's love is infinite, and unstoppable, and will win!
Richard Rohr
#96. It's impossible not to believe in ghosts, They light up the night sky every time the sun goes down, reminding us that we are never alone.
Dannielle Wicks
#97. The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
David Jeremiah
#98. Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth.
Sri Chinmoy
#99. To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.
Bill Crawford
#100. That part of us that is meant to lead us in life, from which we are meant to lead, and from which we are meant to have guidance. The very thing that compels us to breathe, compels us to find hope in the midst of darkness - that part of us gets buried and overshadowed by fear.
Rod Stryker
