A Quotes
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“All of us risk being taken advantage of to some degree, but what would it be like to go through life this irremediably vulnerable, biologically unable to peel your heart from your sleeve and lock it safely inside?”
Source: The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
“All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.”
“All of us share conscious recognition of our individual self. Each of us is more than a product of our conscious thoughts. The dictation of our unconscious mind also affects our behavior. The unconsciousness cogitates upon problems that are too harsh to submit to conscious resolution. The unconscious mind frequently directs us to take action that a rational, conscious mind would eschew. Resembling a two-sided coin, both our conscious and unconscious minds contribute to our thought processes. Collaborative thoughts lead to action, and repeated actions result in the development of behavior patterns, and ingrained behavior patterns lead to a sense of identity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.”
“All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.”
“All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.”
“All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.”
“All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.”
Source: Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our
“All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981
“All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all of the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known.”
Source: Wild Orchid: A Retelling of
“All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us-by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.”
“All of US sometimes feel that one of the most difficult things in the world is to talk to US about US in an effort to help US.”
“All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- “AS IS.” It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I'm far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me “AS IS” and I'll take you that way, too.”
“All of us stand on the edge of the end of humanity.
On one side is a comfortable lifestyle and the turn the blind eye attitude to what is truly happening in and to the world.
On the other side, is a life of hardship which means, less mod-cons, less every day luxuries, maybe less food, sharing of what we do have etc.
We can't have both in today's world because man has screwed up what chance we did have.
There is no 50/50, 80/20 or even 80/20.
We choose one way or the other.
One way is that we keep on doing what we are doing and make this world uninhabitable for all of our children.
Or we can bite the bullet and start thinking of what we can do for our children and their children.
The choice is yours, but what will you say to your children besides, "sorry".
It will be hard to choose because we are all greedy for what we have, but what about our children who won't have that choice?”
“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”
Source: A Million Little Pieces
“All of us suffer in life, but the ones who bring the suffering find the greatest pain. The wounds we inflict upon others are the most painful for us.”
“All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.”
“All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.”
“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”
Source: Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays
“All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is almost a perceptual necessity; in order to see what the photograph is of, we must first repress our consciousness of what the photograph is.”
“All of us, the religious and the non-religious, Easterner and Westerner alike, want to be happy. Everybody seeks happiness, but are you
looking in the right place? Perhaps happiness is here but you’re looking there. Make sure you seek happiness where it can be found.”
Source: Becoming Your Own Therapist
“All of us think our mothers have to be perfect, better than anyone else. It's too bad we don't see them as people until we grow up ourselves.”
Source: Amazing Grace
“All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.”
Source: Landmarks: Turning Points on Your Journey Toward God
“All of us, together, are the unlovable, the unreformable. We, the people, who are deemed incapable of existing alongside society. But, we did just that in the forming of this guild. We have done more than simply build a place to sleep and eat and plan elaborate heists. We have found a place that we, at long last, belong. All of you remember how important that feeling was the first time you truly experienced it here… This guild is more than just an organization and a council and various members. To me, from the beginning, this guild has been a family. It is a place for people like us, the ones who had no place of their own. We made it ourselves, carved out a space in the world that we could call home.”
Source: Forging Hephaestus
“All of us want the same things. We want to be good to the people around us and for our lives to have meaning. For me that means making the world a little bit easier for women.”
“All of us want to be part of something bigger than ourselves, something that matters.”
“All of us want to believe that there is some purpose and meaning to our life, that we are connected to something larger than ourselves. We want to feel some weight and significance to wat we have done. Without that conviction, we experience an emptiness and depression that we will ascribe to other factors.”
Source: The Laws of Human Nature
“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.”
Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.”
“All of us were drunk on fun. A celebration of Kool-Aid puddle and little-kid noise, cake, cakey fingers, singing and yucky yucks”
Source: Iola O
“All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union.”
“All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“All of us were tuned in during our early development but we lose our connection to intuition over time as other things come into play.”
“All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what extent we submit to these mechanisms is not a matter of rationality: to cut off our feelings and support animal exploitation is rational, given societal expectations and sanctions; but to assert our feelings and oppose animal exploitation is also rational, given the pain involved in losing our natural bonds with animals. So our task is not to pass judgment on others' rationality, but to speak honestly of the loneliness and isolation of anthropocentric society, and of the damage done to every person expected to hurt animals.”
“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.”
Source: Ideas and Opinions
“All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom to God.”
“All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java tools and programs, would injure other tools vendors and would damage customers' ability to run a Java-based software product on whatever platform they wished.”
“All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.”
Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)
“All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.”
“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.”
“All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.”
“All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.”
Source: Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President
“All of us wild and fighting for our lives. In the fragrant wilderness of this blue night, my heart sings along with the other nocturnal beasts.”
Source: Caffeine
“All of us will give an account to God about our life on earth, about our position and actions”
“All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.”
“All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.”
“All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.”
Source: Hindu Dharma
“All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.”
“All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.”
Source: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
“All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.”