Sentence examples for not of us from inspiring English sources
I'm interested to know what the markets know that we don't about the possibility (or not) of US default.
"We're cooperating with an investigation of Global Crossing, not of us," said Michael Tarpey, a Qwest spokesman.
Asked about Megan and her sister's defection by The Topeka Capital-Journal this week, church spokesman Steve Drain quoted from St John's gospel: "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us".
If you talk to most centre-left people, these happy meliorists, these so-called inch-by-inch meliorists, they will say: 'That may be true of the 20th century and of the extremes of politics but not of us.' But I always believed that utopian or millenarian or, let's just say, irrational politics, could break out in democracies as well".
Like Patricia Highsmith, with whom she shared a healthy interest in sadism, and, briefly, a little black cat named Spider, she was a creature apart, not of us but living among us with lively disdain and mistrust rather like, well, a cat).
Why should we not conclude that our politics– a system that looks among us for the most deluded egotists, people whose true belief it is that they among all of us would be best placed to run an entire country and who then waste that democratic gift on the aggrandisement not of us but of self– why should we not conclude that our politics is well and truly broken?
Not one of us does not avert his eyes.
Maybe not most of us, maybe not you or me, but some of us.
Not all of us, and certainly not all the time.
