Quotes of: Us-weekly Keyword

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

Aftermath

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

All Quiet on the Western Front

By refreshing our sense of belonging in the world, we widen the web of relationships that nourishes us and protects us from burnout.

Active Hope

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Anne of the Island

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Anthills of the Savannah

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

Yayoi Kusama

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

The Idiot

If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.

The Immersion Book of Steampunk

I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

Kokoro

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

Krik? Krak!

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

Killosophy

We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.

Killosophy

Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.

Killosophy

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

Reading Between the Lines

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Radically Ordinary

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion