Top 1200 Us Presidential Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you.

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness. Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts. And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.

The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

We're lucky to have such great fans that have stood by us, let us be us and try new things.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

The E.U. Referendum clearly divided us, and little has been done by those that lead us to bring us back together.

We can't do both. If you want us to lead, don't criticize us. And if you want us to play a supporting role, then tell us who is going to lead.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

God sometimes takes us into troubles waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.

When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

God's power under us, in us, surging through us, is exactly what turns dependence into unforgettable experiences of completeness.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

President Obama just made his first presidential trip to the state of Utah. Obama spent his time in Utah just like you'd expect - telling people, 'Uh, no, I don't play for the Jazz.'

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

House Speaker Paul Ryan has actually started using a phrase lately - 'Raise our gaze.' He's exactly right, too. That's what I'd like to see in a presidential candidate. I don't like the bricks being thrown back and forth. That's not inspiring to me and to most of our electorate, I think.

Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown. And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities.

Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

It's always been a conscious thing for us to do whatever will separate us from the pack and make us happy musically.

deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

God loves us completely. And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.

I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn't forsake us.

Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

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

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

The Holy Spirit, in the variety of his gifts, unites us and enables us to contribute to the building up of the Church in holiness. In this great work, each of us has a part to play; each of us, as a "living stone", is needed for the growth and the beauty of God's holy temple. Let us ask the Lord to help us to take an ever more active part in the Church's life and mission, guided by the Holy Spirit and with Jesus as our cornerstone.

We live surrounded by people who sound like us, vote like us, spend like us. We get only the news we want to. And then scream into the social media echo chamber that is designed to serve us up information we already like.

Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.