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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. — Ben Okri

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us. — Amy Purdy

It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard. — Saint Peter

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us. — Mike Huckabee

There's love and everybody talks about it, but not all of us come close to it - or, if we do, it's not in the expected way. — Rupert Thomson

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it? — Philip Yancey

It's not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us. — Roger Hamilton

The Gospel is news of what God has done to reach us. It is not advice about what we must do to reach God. — Timothy Keller

A distinguished historian has said that one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen. — Joe Scarborough

Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives. — Michael Gerber

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us. — Brandon Routh

Jesus doesn't make up the difference. Jesus makes all the difference. Grace is not about filling gaps. It is about filling us. — Brad Wilcox

It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them — Joseph Fink

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about. — Walter Lippmann

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true. — Daniel Wallace

For the rest of us, it's not about what you're born with, it's about what you do. — Seth Godin

It is interesting, is it not, how we always think most about the one who has gone away and left us? And least about the one who has remained behind? — Lori Baker

We choose to vibrantly go about life, soak it up, embrace it, and celebrate it, or we choose not to. No one else can make this decision for us. — John O'Leary

Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people. — Mo Abudu

Umm, I think it means we determine our own fate. It's not what happens to us in life, it's what we do about it. — Karen McQuestion

Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds. — Woody Allen

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach. — Pete Carroll

When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole. — Jessica Sorensen

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands ... It is here about us or it is nowhere. — Allen Tucker

It is often the case with the silent children about us, that they cherish a dream which they dare not talk about. — Selma Lagerlof

What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us. — Andrew Sullivan

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It's the living. Those of us left behind. — Jael McHenry

God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him. — Max Lucado

Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it. — Susan Jeffers

Politics does not concern itself who should rule us. It is about what kind of rule people should have. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to. — Paul Feig

It's important to remember that school is about our students, not us, so the more we can empower them to be in control of their learning, the better. — Starr Sackstein

If what we call it science , is making us think that what we know about the universe is normal , then it's not science. — Me

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do. — Margaret J. Wheatley

The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us. — Curtis Martin

It's not about figuring out all of the mysteries of God, but embracing Him and cherishing Him - even when He doesn't make perfect sense to us. — Francis Chan

It's not our mistakes that define us, but what we do about them. — Lindsay J. Pryor

It's not worth thinking about them, Noria. They didn't think about us, either. — Emmi Itaranta

Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary. — Frederick Lenz

I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it. — E. O. Wilson

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true. — Steven Spielberg

It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if they did not. — Barbara Kingsolver

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-old debates about the role of government for all time - but it does require us to act in our time, — Barack Obama

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside. — Joan D. Chittister

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back. — Bailee Madison

You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us. — Charles Spurgeon

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. — Bruce Jackson

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it. — Mitchell Hurwitz

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language. — Walter Darby Bannard

Our time is fixed and settled by eternal decree. Let us not be anxious about it, but wait with patience until the gates of pearl shall open. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Because it's not the things we write about that define us. It's the things we fear writing about. — Eden Connor

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it. — Heinz R. Pagels

We are not strangers. It's a lack of trust that keeps us separated. — Michael R. French

It's not about what we do, or what we feel, it's about what He did and what He felt. It's about what Christ has done for us. — Mike Donehey

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul. — Thomas Moore

It's not just about me. It's about all of us accepting one another. We're all different. It's not a bad thing. It's a good thing. — Bruce Jenner

The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It's not all about fun. It's not always easy. — Leland Dirks

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do. — Shane Claiborne

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not. — Mark Twain

I could care less if people talk about us or not. We know what we can do here. It's an exciting time for us. — Chase Utley

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it. — Nate Silver

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. — George Eliot

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. — John Locke

I'm not sure she even has a millisecond of time to think about romance, but it's fine; I think about it enough for the both of us. — Christina Lauren

Maybe it's better not to know some things. Mysteries make us tick more than just about anything else. — Jason Carter Eaton

It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself. — Jaclyn Smith

Science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not. — David Brin

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism. — Sam Harris

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us. — Ira Berlin

Is it real? No, it is not real. What is this not real? Not real can tell us about real. — Margaret Atwood

Being, in the testimony it gives of itself, informs us not only about what it is but also about what we owe it. — Hans Jonas

How about this - let's not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we'll never get it right without him. — Susan May Warren

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. — Virginia Woolf

But it's not time that matters. It felt ... like a secret place just us two knew about. — David Mitchell

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us. — Byron Katie

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it. — Matt Kibbe

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. — Bayard Rustin

For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense? — Haruki Murakami

Little Hawk, it is not for us to tell how great and terrible things come about. Only the Great Spirit can see all. — Susan Cooper

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together. — Barack Obama