Us Quotes (page 346)

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• impossibility
• make
• impossible

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty. Joss Whedon

• god
• caring
• lost

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood. Erica Jong

• end
• passion
• god

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lipswhere the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note. Rumi

• universe
• universally
• universal

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results. Mahatma Gandhi

• die
• look
• you me

And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now. Taylor Swift

• thinking
• may
• preparation

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. Douglas Adams

• mountain
• grandmother
• unhappy

My grandmother used to tell us a story of a mountain of loadstone. When any vessels came near it, they were instantly deprived of their ironwork: the nails flew to the mountain, and the unhappy crew perished amidst the disjointed planks. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• love
• beautiful
• beauty

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty. Leo Tolstoy

• moments
• people
• drawing

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us? C. S. Lewis

• political
• magic
• driving

Fury...sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal....drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths Salman Rushdie

• feeling
• believe
• mindfulness

She was staring at the low ceiling, and I had the feeling that there was another Severian there, the kind and even noble Severian who existed only in Dorcas’s mind. All of us, I suppose, when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak. Gene Wolfe

• calvinism
• broader
• interpretive

The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose. Abraham Kuyper

• simplicity
• spartan
• grateful

Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates. Each of us had the loan of an absent undergraduate's rooms - bedroom, sitting-room and pantry; all fitted up in a style which, after the spartan simplicity of a public school study, seemed positively sinful. Christopher Isherwood

• opportunity
• offers
• fellow

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry. J. K. Rowling

• saying
• had
• close

...both of us had a lot to say, but there was no room to say it in, we were so tense and close. Jack Kerouac