Our Quotes

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.

We are mortgaging our future.

In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.

Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows, where it's very difficult to root it out.

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.

Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it - I think that's important.

When we focus on or disappointments , we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

Thought and action are the redeeming features of our lives.

If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

Clearly while the president is overseas, he's at a conference and while the president is overseas I think it's appropriate that people not be critical of him or our country.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

...we make our lives by what we love.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

I believe that all people that are successful should pay back their cities, their states, their towns, our country.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay.

Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.

And whatever our faith - whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: The measure of our character is our willingness to give of ourselves for others and for our country.

I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

Organize priorities so that God is first in our lives.

What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.