Quotes of: Us-weekly Keyword

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

Often the experiences that challenge us the most are the ones that harbor the greatest gift.

Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use

Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking , and celebrating a reunion. ( )

Signs of Life in the U.S.A.: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

The Shadow of the Wind

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.

Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore

...I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them...

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.

Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

At times we fail to find solution for our challenges, but those solutions are very much around us. Our creativity can help us reach those solutions.

Open The Windows: To the World aound You

while the framers of the United States Constitution were ashamed of slavery and used euphemisms in place of the term "slave", the authors of the Confederate Constitution proudly used the term no less than ten times.

The Philosophy of the Confederate Constitution

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.

Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and more powerful than anyone who might otherwise make us feel small.

Positive: A Memoir

We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system to the degree that this happens, we are also becoming submerged in a new "Culture of Silence".

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

If we became a pal to what scared us the most, we could find a simple way to ease all that bothered us, we would find peace, peace that we could live with.

Prison of Paradise

For the friendships which we buy with a price, and do not gain by greatness and nobility of character, though they be fairly earned are not made good, but fail us when we have occasion to use them.

The Prince

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.

The Pan Book of Horror Stories

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

For we do not do what we want to do, but what is easiest and most natural for us to do, and if it is easy for us to do the wrong thing, it is that that we will do.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

A blanket could be used to cover up my leftover meatloaf. But I’m not interested in covering things up. Who do you think I am, the US Government? 

Rick Bet Blank