Our Quotes

O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.

Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

You're the woman in my life,” he said. “Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

Faith offers the promise that everything will ultimately be renewed in God. This hardly means that we will, or must, receive an answer from God for every question in our lives.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

As we get older, our world gets smaller and we start to doubt and question. We are really suspicious of difference.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

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

I think the language of science is highly lyrical and evocative and an important part of our lives in many ways.

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

Your child can die from chickenpox.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.

Its no secret that the Democrats and liberal media would love to take away our guns and mandate every aspect of our lives, but I refuse to let them get away with that.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

It's not always the things we do that make the biggest difference in our lives; it's often the things we avoid doing that have the biggest effect.

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

Believers have a genuine, unfailing hope of a future reunion with loved ones. We can find joy in anticipating our future reunion.

In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives.

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.

A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it.

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

We must renew democracy itself. We have to fight cynicism and inertia and restore faith in the advancement of our country.

They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now.

It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

Our planet is a tiny atom in god's kingdom.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time.

We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.