Was Our Quotes

#1. Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.

Vernon Howard

#2. It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Homer

#3. This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free.
Alas, the summer's energy wanes quickly,
A moment and it is gone. And no longer
May we make the necessary arrangements, simple as they are.
Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.

John Ashbery

#4. My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I have parted from my dear.

Robert Creeley

#5. No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

Daniel Inouye

#6. We used to really feel like the band was our family.

Chris Frantz

#7. A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the future was their world. It was parallel worlds.

Lois Lowry

#8. We never had any children," he said ruefully. "Our work was our children.

Patti Smith

#9. Lack of power, that was our dilemma. we had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power Greater Than Ourselves.

Bill Wilson

#10. My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong
it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.

Alexandra Bracken

#11. She was the one who would balance us; she was our unity. The beauty to my beast

Christin Lovell

#12. The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

Ernesto Sabato

#14. My father decided he would read everything that I read. Maybe that was our way of talking.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#15. We killed this big hairy thing and that big hairy thing. And that was our day. You know what I mean.

Andrew Smith

#16. These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.

Amaury Nolasco

#17. Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

Mick Fleetwood

#18. It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

Rumi

#19. That was our first step toward better acquaintance. He would call on me sometimes in the evenings instead of running about London with his fellow-clerks; and before long, speaking of himself as a

Rudyard Kipling

#20. Papa was our strength and the very fiber that wove our family together. He was our foundation and our rock, but even rocks, break, given enough stress.

Nancy B. Brewer

#21. Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

Harper Lee

#22. We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.

Vincent De Paul

#23. It was our fate and our natures, flawed and wounded, that brought us together - Violet Minturn

Amy Tan

#24. It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should
a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.

Paula McLain

#25. Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

Lionel Hampton

#26. Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

Lionel Hampton

#27. You don't understand. How could you? We were in the worst sort of hell. We weren't living day to day or even hour to hour. We survived minute by excruciating minute. The next day was an eternity away and we didn't want it. Death wasn't the enemy. It was our salvation.

Maya Banks

#28. The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#29. The first three years was our honeymoon period. Then you settle into the relationship, and it morphs into just living, breathing. It becomes more comfortable, but it becomes a necessity - something you can't give up, like an addict.

David Burtka

#30. I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Jayne Meadows

#31. Responsibility was our cruel mooring....

David Brin

#32. I woke with a dreaded pain of hunger this morning, but it was not for food. You knew about hat. It was our most important secret, and because you knew, it kept me alive. (29)

Sarah Ferguson

#33. The stage was our school, our home, our life.

Lillian Gish

#34. The great sadness," Helms said in an oral history recorded for the LBJ Library, "was our ignorance - or innocence, if you like - which led us to mis-assess, not comprehend, and make a lot of wrong decisions.

Tim Weiner

#35. That one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities

Haruki Murakami

#36. So Jude was still Jude, I was still me, and we were still us. About the only thing that had changed was our bank account, just like he'd promised.

Nicole Williams

#37. Americans have not had a presidential choice since 1932. Roosevelt was our man; every president since Roosevelt has been our man.

Harold Wallace Rosenthal

#38. And that was our beginning. It's not a thrilling tale of adventure or the kind of fairy-tale romance portrayed in movies, but it felt like divine intervention.

Nicholas Sparks

#39. A seven year old to a neighbor after the boy's house burned down, "Oh, that was not our home. That was our house. We still have our home. We just don't have a place to put it right now."

Gene R. Cook

#40. Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.

Tahir Shah

#41. We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Jessica Hagedorn

#42. That's the Indian in me - you must put spices on everything. As a kid, whenever we got sick, my mom would take milk and put turmeric in it. That was our medicine. That was the cure-all. Some people turn to Robitussin.

Aasif Mandvi

#43. Was our life together that unbearable?

Lionel Shriver

#44. The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.

Kid Nichols

#45. I don't think it was our time then. I guess it isn't now, either." John looks over at me, his gaze steady. "But one day maybe it will be.

Jenny Han

#46. One of our problems was our inability to recognise and accept our own deformities.

Haruki Murakami

#47. Once we understood that we were giving away God's money to do God's work, we discovered a peace and joy we never had back when we thought it was our money!

Randy Alcorn

#48. People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

Martin Gore

#49. Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

Akiane Kramarik

#50. One of our very favorite shows of 2008 was our Slowtrain instore. We drove straight from San Francisco, pulled up to the back of the store, dragged our entire setup inside and played our new album, Rook, start-to-finish - and they let us get away with it.

Jonathan Meiburg

#51. This was our rhythm, our worship: give and take, gift and receive, honor and entrust. Making love to this man wasn't just an expression of my feelings for him or a carnal, physical need - it was an offering.

Rachael Wade

#52. Because it did used to be cool, super-cool, in fact - she was our Magellan, our Marco Polo, one of the wayward Walker women whose restless boundless spirit propels her from place to place, love to love, moment to unpredictable moment.

Jandy Nelson

#53. I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.

Kevin D. Williamson

#54. I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.

Dan Simmons

#55. He was truly a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things, and in something to which he didn't dare put a name or a face because he said as priests that was our job.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#56. The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

Eknath Easwaran

#57. That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

Adam Rich

#58. It was our hands that were supposed to be full, of the future; which could be held but not seen. I

Margaret Atwood

#59. On the farm, in our first-floor bedroom, my sister and I were sheltered in the essence of normal. We were not hidden, but unseen. The orange farmhouse was our castle, our kingdom the fields around, and the shallow creek that bisected our property the sea we crossed to find adventure.

Lori Lansens

#60. The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

John Densmore

#61. This was my love, her love
torn, damaged, broken, ripped apart and put back together. This was our tattered love.

Lola Stark

#62. suppose, if you had to call it something, you could say that that was our civil war. It was too big a thing, too tied up in moral certainties to be called a mutiny, too small and ultimately futile to be called a revolution.

Frank Tayell

#63. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future.

Malala Yousafzai

#64. The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

Kate Williams

#65. Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#66. I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

Steve Yzerman

#67. Whatever the final outcome in Iraq, our men and women in uniform should stand tall with pride for a job well done. It was our political leaders - of both parties and both presidencies - who failed us.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

#68. Music was our food ... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

Alice Herz-Sommer

#69. On Sundays, the pretending felt almost as natural as nature. The chapel was our favorite place. Long before we could understand what the priest was saying, the music instructed us in how to feel.

Karen Russell

#70. It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.

Franklin Graham

#71. Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing.

Shia Labeouf

#72. Was our suffering of any consequence to their consciences? Did they see us as victims> Or were we simply nameless, faceless humans who were in their way?

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#73. I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.

Terry Porter

#74. I know I'm the one who has shattered the perfection that was our souls as one.

Cassandra Giovanni

#75. My eyes lingered on her naked body for several minutes. Was our relationship what she wanted? Was it satisfying for her? Was it what she dreamed of when she started falling in love with me? Did reality ever fulfill our dreams? Or do dreams just continually set us up for failure and disappointment?

T.B. Markinson

#76. There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.

Alice Sebold

#77. At the root of this failure of intelligence was "our national ignorance of Vietnamese history, society, and language," he said.

Tim Weiner

#78. I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.'

Steve Sabol

#79. We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

David Sedaris

#80. It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

#81. I always thought that you having my child was our destiny,bt i can't even vibe with you sexually

Kanye West

#82. This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

Shirley Knight

#83. Here was our future of cheese-food and aerosol propellants, Styrofoam and Club Med on the moon, roast beef served in a toothpaste tube.

Chuck Palahniuk

#84. Fauvism was our ordeal by fire ... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light ... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.

Andre Derain

#85. We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love ... embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world.

Coco J. Ginger

#86. You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

Dexter Holland

#87. I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

Michael Silverblatt

#88. I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

Mario Batali

#89. I barely knew anything about this girl. I only knew that when I was with her, the entire world felt different. It was like this forest was our own secret land, and here, we could be anything we wanted to be. Anything at all.

Mia Sheridan

#90. I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika.

Quentin Tarantino

#91. The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

Zac Hanson

#92. My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.

Luanne Rice

#93. Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

Tommy Lee

#94. For, the counsel of God confronts us with the truth that the Righteous One was delivered to death for our sins, and his blood was our ransom from death.

John Calvin

#95. We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler.

Seymour Hersh

#96. The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting. I loved working with Judith Light and all the other actors on the show at that time.

Michael Storm

#97. We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way,

Ann Druyan

#98. The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

Alain De Botton

#99. Henry James was our master of periphrasis
the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Edward Abbey

#100. We were, all of us, prisoners of our character, unable to alter our true inner natures. When we said we had changed, what had only really changed was our luck. Put us in the same circumstances as our previous folly and suddenly we'd revert, all of us, to what we were. That's what I believed

William Lashner