Ours Quotes (page 41)

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• disappointment
• disappoint
• sitting

Our disappointment sits between us. Charles Bukowski

• good
• doubt
• traitor

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare

• words
• view
• manly

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• father
• earth
• did

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously. Richard G. Scott

• federation
• preserves
• union

Our Federal Union - It Must Be Preserved Andrew Jackson

• personality
• people
• philosophical

Our great American philosopher William James has said - "We have as many personalities as there are people who know us." To which I would add "We have no personalities unless there are people who know us. Unless there are people we hope to convince that we deserve to exist. Joyce Carol Oates

• humanity
• acceptance
• evening

Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue. Ellen DeGeneres

• mistake
• journey
• father

Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. C. S. Lewis

• saying
• greatness
• great

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks. Arthur Schopenhauer

• stated
• lose
• severed

our state cannot be severed, we are one./One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. John Milton

• she
• today
• confidence

Our hero's unreasoning rage was fed by a not unreasonable jealousy. It was clear to him that Zuleika had forgotten his existence. To-day, as soon as he had killed her love, she had shown him how much less to her was his love than the crowd's. And now again it was only the crowd she cared for. He followed with his eyes her long slender figure as she threaded her way in and out of the crowd, sinuously, confidingly, producing a penny from one lad's elbow, a threepenny-bit from between... Max Beerbohm

• writing
• age
• he

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence. Anais Nin

• nature
• soul
• evening

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. Quentin Crisp

• power corrupts
• hand
• humanity

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do - the seduction of it - but we lose the dignity of being real men and women. Power corrupts; attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ... Refuse to participate in evil; insist on taking part in what is healthy, generous, and responsible. Stand up, speak out, and... Edward Abbey

• society
• caring
• family

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society. Jane Austen