Us Quotes (page 440)

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• love
• loves
• meekness

. . . meekness, love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us. Joseph Smith, Jr.

• bird
• superiority
• among

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us... Max Ernst

• great
• fashion
• god

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy. George R. R. Martin

• love
• damning
• make love to me

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion, the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned. Patrick Kavanagh

• painting
• men
• music

we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough Samuel Butler

• kindness
• forgiveness
• grateful

These are the folks who brought us the hydrogen bomb. Forgive me, Lord, for not being more grateful to these kind souls Carl Sagan

• forever
• connects
• connections

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever Sofia Coppola

• death
• hours and hours
• sinners

pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death Ernest Hemingway

• wise
• saying
• consider

He will pity us who pitied everyone ... And He will say, 'I receive them, my wise and reasonable ones, forasmuch as not one of them considered himself worthy of this thing ... Fyodor Dostoevsky

• him
• mum
• shut

We tried to shut him in a pyramid, but Mum spotted us. J. K. Rowling

• moments
• free
• culture

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born? Chuck Palahniuk

• alone
• him
• grief

Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain. Laurell K. Hamilton

• simple
• house
• love

Bluntly and quietly, in a series of simple, forthright sentences, she dismantled the architecture of unhappiness that had been growing up around us for the past several days. She was calling from the office she said, and had to talk in a low voice, 'but if you can hear me, Sid' she began, 'there are four things I want you to know. First, I haven't stopped thinking about you since I left the house this morning. Second, I've decided to have the baby, and we're never going to use the word... Paul Auster

• adult
• patriotic
• question

The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. Thomas Hardy

• law
• conscience
• words

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law. March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell; If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell. William Shakespeare