Let Us Quotes (page 9)

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• life
• work
• letting

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable. Voltaire

• future
• look
• past

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness. James Thurber

• powerful
• power
• underestimating

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. Jane Austen

• philosophical
• idiotic
• thinker

Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots Douglas Adams

• compassion
• creativity
• humanity

Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness. Martin Luther King jr.

• art
• farmer
• earth

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster

• coffee
• rain
• music

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be. Hunter S. Thompson

• reading
• thinking
• writing

Let us dare to read, think, speak and write. John Adams

• mind
• wishes
• brilliant

Let us reflect, if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Victor Hugo

• universe
• justice
• morally

Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King jr.

• remembrance
• heavy
• burdens

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone. William Shakespeare

• life
• sacrifice
• one day

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life. Victor Hugo

• die
• elegance
• us

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy Louisa May Alcott

• love
• broken
• world

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world. William Penn

• yellow
• wisdom
• blue

Let us arise and go nowto the Isle of Manisfreeand live the true blue simple lifeof wisdom and wondermentwhere all things growstraight upaslant and singingin the yellow sunpoppies out of cowpodsthinking angels out of turds. I must arise and go nowto the Isle of Manisfreeway up behind the broken wordsand woods of Arcady. Lawrence Ferlinghetti