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It doesn't take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an 'us' and a 'them.' And a spark. — Ada Palmer

Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away?
"You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

The world has many places that can make us uncomfortable. Calling them evil, or any other bad name, doesn't make them go away. — J.Z. Colby

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish. — Margaret Laurence

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie. — Warren Ellis

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end. — Ian McEwan

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both of them. — Jim Piddock

If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them. — Joyce Meyer

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week. — Hattie McDaniel

God is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them. — Billy Graham

Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us forever. — Andrew M. Ferrell

The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now. — Ana Claudia Antunes

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination. — Sathya Sai Baba

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them. — Robert Zoellick

Humanity may have to live with them forever, unless we exterminate them... or they exterminate us. — Manel Loureiro

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not. — Raquel Cepeda

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them. — Peter J. Carroll

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them! — Benito Mussolini

Moments pass, lots and lots of them, with us holding on, it feels like for dear life, or maybe holding on to dear life. — Jandy Nelson

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price. — Hillary Clinton

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good. — Helen Keller

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. — Walt Disney

We can let our goals motivate and inspire us, but we don't want to let them determine our happiness or self worth. — Elaina Marie

People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them. — Donna Lynn Hope

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle. — James Russell Lowell

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them. — Daniel Pinkwater

So difficult is it for us to know, with the dead as with the living, whether a thing would cause them joy or sorrow! — Marcel Proust

I think ... we all have the seeds of self-destruction in our soul, but each of us gets to choose whether or not to water them. — Lindsay Buroker

Angels are all around us when we need them the most, and when we just need a nudge or two. — Cristael Ann Bengtson

To dwell on the things taht depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. — Walter Isaacson

Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp them. — Sebastian Barry

There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us. — Lisa Williams

Success can't make us strong, only our failures, or rather our struggle to remedy them. — Stefan Emunds

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us. — Dave Matthews

I think I just don't like names. Basically, I can't see what's wrong with calling me 'me' or you 'you' or us 'us' or them 'them. — Haruki Murakami

People's love for us may change, depending on what we do or don't do to please them. But God's does not - it's everlasting. — Stormie O'martian

Vietnam ... war ... it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow. — Kristin Hannah

Henry James hated epilogues and refused to use them in his fiction. He said that life granted us no "epilogues", so why should art or literature? — Dan Simmons

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone. His — Walter Isaacson

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no. — Tamora Pierce

He does miracles when we need them - not for our entertainment or to make us feel "spiritual. — Craig S. Keener

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous. — Jim Butcher

We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us. — Tanya Masse

What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don't misuse them, Daphne. — Robin Lee Hatcher

Jack. He'd never give us a phone, or a window. "Ma takes my thumbs and squeezes them. "We are people in a book, and he wont let anybody else read it. — Emma Donoghue

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down. — Jessica Lave

The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed. — H. Spencer Lewis

But this is life, and when bad things come to us, there isn't much choice. You survive them or you don't. — Greer Macallister

The rest of us have monsters too, but we must call them by other names, or pretend they don't exist... — Margaret Millar

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult? I — Jerry Bridges

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them. — Aristophanes

We can either pick our challenges in life, or life will pick them for us. — Michael Loynd

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them. — Blaise Pascal

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are. — Karen White

It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference. — Joan Bauer

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk. — Andre Dubus III

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively. — Elizabeth Thornton

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us. — Evan Meekins

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way. — Arundhati Roy

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them. — Kristin Cast

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings. — John Perry Barlow

Life rarely develops as we expect. People surprise us, sometimes in unpleasant ways. They don't always react as we hope they will or want them to. — A.A. Aguirre

We had any number of clocks surrounding us, and every one of them at one time or another exhibited a lively sense of humor. — Joshua Ferris

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance. — Filippo Brunelleschi

Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us. — John Moulder Wilson

We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? — Chief Seattle

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. — George Eliot

Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose. — Jodi Picoult

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..? — David Moody

When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God. — Dillon Burroughs

There are greater and better things in us all, than the world takes account of, or than we take note of; if we would but find them out. — Albert Pike

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? — John Steinbeck

What brought us together was a love of nature, or, more specifically, of catching things and unintentionally killing them. — David Sedaris

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. — Pierre Trudeau

I have a plan.
We'll either destroy them for good, or they'll destroy us.
Either way, only one of us is walking away. — Gena Showalter

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or them..? — David Moody

Silly stress at the office or exam-related anxiety become less threatening when we refuse to let them affect us so personally. — Giulia Enders