Top 100 Us'so Quotes
#1. The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.
Erik Naggum
#2. A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it.
Pope Francis
#3. Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
Herman Melville
#4. Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His.
If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
Thomas Aquinas
#5. How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face ... I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.
Therese Of Lisieux
#6. Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#7. It's alright all of us all living saying 'oh well there's enough of us so we won't have anymore, don't let anybody else live.' I don't believe in that.
John Lennon
#8. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.
Jodi Picoult
#10. Life is short. We don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So, be swift to love and make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#11. All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.
Albert Camus
#12. Color was not given to us in order that we imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Henri Matisse
#13. I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce
#14. I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better
Jorge Valdano
#15. The law of attraction didn't apply to us, so we made up our own rules.
Renee Ericson
#16. New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.
Jonathan Trigell
#17. To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.
Andy Taylor
#18. Life never misses an opportunity to upscuttle us, I think. Life likes to tell us it told us so.
Sara Baume
#19. Since the beginning of time, we have expected our leaders to be supermen, unlike mere mortals. We want them to be much greater than us so that we can look up to them.
Jonathan Powell
#20. My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us ... [so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.
Winston Churchill
#21. What is it about our specific belief in God and His wishes that makes us so angry at the specific beliefs of another? What is it about the teachings of our respective deities that makes us more right than the next person? Or more wrong?
Chuck Austen
#22. Just a huge credit goes to the GM Goodwrench team and all my teammates that went before me. It's been a good weekend for us so far and hopefully we can put it all together tomorrow night.
Kevin Harvick
#23. God has hidden in each and every one of us so many abilities, gifts and resources that could only be activated by work.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. We're all monsters, luv. Each and every one of us. So happens some of us have prettier faces to hide behind is all." On
Kristen Callihan
#25. Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.
Sigmund Freud
#26. I want to hear you come while Gage fucks you with his tongue. You're so damn hot like this, pressed between us. So fucking hot.
Nicole Edwards
#27. God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#28. God created us so that His love, beauty, perfection, and harmony would be seen through us.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!
Steve Toltz
#30. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not
destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture
his inner mind, we reshape him.
George Orwell
#31. This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#32. Good manners are the last thing to desert us, so it seems. They remain behind to mock us with their hollow sound when all else has fled. On
Margaret George
#33. God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us.
R.C. Sproul
#34. I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.
Robert Kiyosaki
#35. They would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
#36. Where there is love, there will be an abundance of success and love. However, love is something within us. So focus on your own self-worthiness, and love will begin to blossom within you, around you, for you and for others in your life.
Vishwas Chavan
#37. All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no longer seem like strangers.
Anna Quindlen
#38. They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
Randy Newman
#39. Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
Nathaniel Branden
#40. There is so much mercy around us and in us, so much available to us if we just have the eyes and intention to see it.
Anne Lamott
#42. Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.
Paul Nitze
#43. Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#44. It is our flaws that make each one of us so perfect.
Paige Dearth
#46. Braden, Ellie, and Adam came in and took their usual table directly across from us so that Braden and Joss could screw each other with their eyes.
Samantha Young
#47. But where could I find such pleasure in you, Lord - except in you, who teaches us by sorrow, who wound us to heal us, and kill us so that we may not die apart from you.
Augustine Of Hippo
#48. Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the "HMOs only give us so much time" diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)
Karl Albrecht
#49. Why did You give us so many stories about miracles? Why did You
send Your Son down from heaven? Why did You give us movies if life doesn't ever end well?
What kind of fucking God are You? Do You want me to be miserable for the rest of my life?
Matthew Quick
#50. They were checking us so closely, I could tell what brand of deodorant they were using.
Gary Dornhoefer
#51. God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand.
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard
#52. The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.
Frank Gehry
#53. We are off! And do we know it, not just because the world is yelling "Lift-off" in our ears, but because the seats of our pants tell us so! Trust your instruments, not your body, the modern pilot is always told, but this beast is best felt. Shake, rattle and roll!
Michael Collins
#54. The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success
Simon Sinek
#56. It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. ( ... ) The "Tell the truth!" imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.
Milan Kundera
#57. Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
Oscar Wilde
#58. Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.
Joyce Meyer
#59. There's so much going on in the world. There's so much information being thrown at us - so many things are being sold to us, and we're being told how we should appear and how to be more successful, blah, blah, blah. How does that manifest itself? In the pressures, the stress, this need to escape.
Michael Fassbender
#60. Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.
Kurt Vonnegut
#61. It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
William Penn
#62. Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.
John Amery
#63. What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)
Mary Doria Russell
#64. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.
Libba Bray
#65. To those who refuse to be blinded by the glare, or deafened by the hush, who are brave enough to question, and curious enough to explore. To those who will not forget. You will make a difference. And to the rest of us, so that we may learn how.
Zana Fraillon
#66. The dead hand of society's inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so they can continue to govern us.
Peter F. Hamilton
#67. Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#68. The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
William James
#69. Wait," Toby said, talking over her as she looked around at all of us. "So this means all you guys are off, like, rounding the bases and I'm still in the dugout. I'm the person selling Cracker Jack in the stands."
"This metaphor is getting weird," Palmer murmured to me.
Morgan Matson
#70. Life is painful, and we carry with us so much disappointment and heartbreak. But I'm fighting to save some space inside me where I can create hope.
Shauna Niequist
#71. It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#72. Hell is in us, like a seed. We need to cultivate the positive within us so we can generate the energy of understanding and compassion and transform hell.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#73. What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#74. Even if we have ourselves so fully convinced that we are on the right track because we desperately want the specific direction we have chosen to be the correct one, if the universe disagrees with our choices, it will not be shy in telling us so.
Miya Yamanouchi
#75. The scriptures offer us so many doctrinal diamonds. And when the light of the Spirit plays upon their several facets, they sparkle with celestial sense and illuminate the path we are to follow.
Neal A. Maxwell
#76. One neither of us could bear. Life sometimes puts so much weight on our shoulders we crumble, bends us so far we break.
A.L. Jackson
#77. St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.
Leonard Little
#78. Godly relationships will help grow, replenish, and refuel us so we can continually move closer to our dreams... It's critical that we constantly evaluate whom we're in relationships with to ensure they're taking us toward our dreams and not holding us back from our destinies.
Christine Caine
#79. Yet we are none of us so much awake, as we should be; a few thunder-claps would do us all good,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#80. We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect Zgod plants these yearlings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
#81. Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!
Francis Asbury
#82. We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#83. Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.
Orhan Pamuk
#84. Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.
Emily Dickinson
#85. So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
R.L. Stine
#86. It is not enough just to believe in Christ. We have to believe that He believes in us so we can believe in ourselves. That's a sentence that deserves a re-read.
Toni Sorenson
#87. 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
#88. Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.
Sarah Zettel
#89. When the confusion of accusations and excuses, of desires and fears, makes everything with us so obscure, he sees quite clearly into all our secrets. And at the heart of them all he finds a name which he himself has inscribed: Jesus Christ.
Eric Metaxas
#90. God has gone before us so we can walk in the future He has for us.
Priscilla Shirer
#91. We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.
Dallas Campbell
#92. Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.
Kat Duff
#93. Young man, Mr. Aubrey has made us so rich that we can now afford to worry about our image.
David Halberstam
#94. We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.
Matt Groening
#95. There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles ... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.
Mary Lambert
#96. Well, runhh it all to harr," Rafe grumbled. "Why does bein' the nice guys always cause us so much trouble?
Bob Craton
#98. Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
William McKinley
#99. Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#100. I thought you weren't speaking to us?" said Harry. "Yes, don't stop now," said Ron, "it's doing us so much good.
J.K. Rowling