Top 310 Let Us Quotes

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave – so let us let them leave.

Let us forget the frustrations of the past and think of our unfulfilled potential.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

As we face the headwinds of our troubled and turbulent times, let us always be inspired by the legacy of Kofi Annan – and guided by the knowledge that he will continue speaking to us, urging us on toward the goals to which he dedicated his life and truly moved our world.

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man’s capacity for evil.

There are all kinds of features that will become part of cell phones that will help us offload the more laborious things of life and let us focus on doing the things humans do well, like abstract thinking and creating.

God’s purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Being a teenager, I would think they were real strict, and I would get upset, but I’m glad they were like that. They didn’t let us do whatever we wanted. We weren’t allowed to date until we were, like, juniors in high school.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

During the first season of ‘Human Giant,’ I remember the people at MTV were all over us. They hadn’t really done a live-action short-film comedy show, so they didn’t know what it was going to be, and they were worried. But after that, they let us do whatever we wanted.

There is dignity in being a celebrity. Let us not lose that dignity.

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not – have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.

The income disparity is a huge issue. And I think that the only solution to this – there is no easy solution – are fundamental changes. That the world is changing quicker than our policies are changing. And we need the kinds of policies that will let us have a competitive economy going forward.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

You have to believe in a placebo or it won’t work, but if it works, it’s obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

We ask them to remove the missiles deployed against Taiwan, give up their military threat, and instead let us together open the door to cross-Strait peaceful and stable dialogue and negotiations.

I should like to think that we’ll find peace on this Earth at some point and come to a collective consciousness of compassion for each other, where we say, ‘Enough! Let us live as one!’

For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles – ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn’t let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours… this marvelous, blessed game… and we just went out and played it.

Justification and sanctification are both God’s work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won’t let us separate them. Both are gifts of our union with Christ, and within this double-blessing, justification is the root of sanctification and sanctification is the fruit of justification.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.

Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’

Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

My passion for fashion originated in my mother’s closet. She was a woman who loved fashion. She enjoyed dressing up a lot, and she had a closet that was like her sacred room that belonged only to her. She wouldn’t let us go in and play there very often.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding of what kind of society it wants than just saying, ‘Leave us alone and let us pass laws against abortion.’

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

When we can’t bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God’s catching every falling tear because He won’t let us fall apart.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don’t think so.

The media are so key in a national emergency, especially when opposition parties in the U.K. are – let us say – largely in disarray, even leaderless.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

We have to look at it holistically and as a whole and say let us tackle racism or discrimination in life. Then you can look to get rid of it in football.