Us Quotes (page 247)

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• passion
• running
• look

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune. Barbara Kingsolver

• mirror
• wellness
• thinking

Well, I think I laid down my sunshade first,'said Mrs. Twining reflectively. 'Ah, that doesn't interest you. I told Finch that I wanted to tidy my hair (a euphemism for "powder my nose", of course), and would show myself out on to the terrace.' 'And you did in fact powder your nose, Mrs. Twining, at the mirror over the fireplace?' 'Most thoroughly,' she agreed. 'How long did that take you?' She looked rather amused. 'When a woman powders her nose, Inspector, she loses count of time. My... Georgette Heyer

• die
• elegance
• let us

...but, dear me, let us be elegant or die. Louisa May Alcott

• life
• understanding
• inspirational

Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. Mitch Albom

• winter
• snow
• boys

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born. George R. R. Martin

• learning
• giving
• german

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German. Mark Twain

• common
• friends
• father

In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense. Michael Faraday

• stupid
• object
• made

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it. Karl Marx

• god
• thinking
• manly

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do. Neil Gaiman

• good
• dream
• sharing

Don't tell us about dreams? dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them. J. R. R. Tolkien

• lost
• die
• reality

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. Thornton Wilder

• vote
• different
• voting

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. Mark Twain

• sad
• journey
• love

There's one sad truth in life I've found. While journeying east and west -The only folks we really wound. Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow. To those who love us best. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• life
• happy
• good

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one? Thomas Mann

• him
• crying
• wild

Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair. Oscar Wilde