Our Quotes
We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
Going into our fear and confronting our greed, our weaknesses, our neediness is the way out. And the way out is through the mind, by choosing our thoughts.
The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
There is the tendency to place ourselves and our ambitions at the center of our lives. This is very human, but it is not Christian.
Faith is the determination to create with our lives what only our hearts can conceive.
Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.
Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.
Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.
God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.
We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?
Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.
I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.
Anyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.
We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.
When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities.
Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.
When we direct our thoughts properly i.e. 'Things could be worse but aren't', we can control our emotions... i.e. and feel relieved, grateful, satisfied, hopeful and happy
We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.
Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.
The dangers of apparent self-sufficiency explain why Our Lord regards the vices of the feckless and dissipated so much more leniently than the vices that lead to worldly success.
Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.
I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.
Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.
Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.
We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
