Here in Britain, we can get a little bit snobby about American history. Yes, their history is not quite as long as ours. But it isn’t all that short, either.
Years go by, but the heart of what we all fight and die for at the core is the same. We fight and die for love and our family and our land and for what’s ours. We do things for something as simple as pride.
Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it’s terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change – huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.
Nostalgia can be an awful bore, especially for those whose memories are painted in hues different from ours.
Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I’m fine with their name being close to ours.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
The land is ours. It’s not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people… Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.
Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that’s not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
Mine is better than ours.
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
Liberal democracies like ours seem, for the most part, to have learned how to avoid meticulously planned mass-casualty plots with the complexity and scale of 9/11. But they don’t know how to keep their citizens safe at night clubs and concerts, in supermarkets, on beachfront promenades, from truck drivers.
They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.
My dear dad always tried to introduce me to children of his friends, but I just never took to them. Those were the people we were shoved with at school dances, usually Eton boys because it was the cleverest boys’ school, and ours was supposed to be the cleverest girls’ school.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we have a hard time holding on to. They provide a space to question whatever we are doing in the name of things we say we believe in or might believe in.
With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question – unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.
There’s this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
Ours is a government elected by the people and it will not succumb to threats.
If you can reach people in their pockets, on their lunch breaks, on their commutes to and from work, on recess at school, and make things they want to see, that’s an amazing thing for a show like ours.
I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.
You see, in government, people give you a mandate, and you’ve got to fulfil that. Ours is very clear. Fix our public finances and get our country working.
Korn is great friends of ours, so to be on tour with friends is usually our number one. We’ve been very blessed to meet a lot of great bands, successful bands, that we can go tour with.
If we can reach populations in developing countries and help them understand the value of their indigenous diet and lifestyles rather than copying ours, perhaps we can reverse the exponential rise in cardiovascular disease that is plaguing them.
We call a child’s mind ‘small’ simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Government has to be cut back like asparagus… every day… or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there’s too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Ours is a company that doesn’t do annualized software, and so when we create a ‘Zelda’ game, when we create a ‘Smash Bros.’ game, or a ‘Pokemon’ experience comes on the platform, it needs to be exceptionally compelling because we plan on selling it for a very long time.
I want to make sure that ours is a party that is focusing on both middle class issues and not becoming a party of our two coasts.
The Americans have their way of talking, their way of dressing, their way of doing things, and we have ours. That’s why this whole U.K. underground thing has become sick, because everyone has finally said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Drake is sick – but hang on, we are too.’
In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth. Equal opportunity and access for both girls and boys must become the norm.
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn’t there an enormous building in Washington called the ‘National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns’ to lobby for us?
I do hope there are other wonderful planets living and thriving out there, but ours is special because it is ours and ours to take care of. We really can’t take that too lightly.
The United States is, after all, supposed to be a free country – and it has never made any sense to me that choices about what to put into our own bodies aren’t ours and ours alone.
Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.
When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave – we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill.
Let’s give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there’s any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.
This is what confuses me. People say, ‘I believe that we landed on the Moon’ but then they find it really far fetched that there can’t be other planets where little men haven’t travelled to ours.
God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.
It’s been a big flaw of ours in the soccer department that a lot of our best athletes go and play other sports. But I think young players have seen me, and others, go over to Europe and play in some of the best leagues – and MLS is improving so much, too.
That’s the primary mission of ours: to protect the border, enhance the border, and capitalize on what the border has to offer. It’s the source of jobs, source of positive immigration stories.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
There’s no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: ‘You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.’
