Us Quotes
What connects us, from global trade to family memory.
These quotes look at 'us' on very different scales, from once-hostile nations now trading with the world to a shared human truth that everyone carries some private struggle. For quotes about closeness between people, see Connection quotes.
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
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We do not have the transportation infrastructure that all you in the lower 48 have. We don't have energy grids that tie us in.
We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.
A lot of the basic research that helped us figure out fracking came from the federal government.
Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.
It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.
When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.
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One entry turns personal and historical, recalling a great-aunt with bound feet who lived with the family and never learned to read. Readers can also browse Identity quotes for related themes, or Relationship quotes for closer bonds.
