W Quotes
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“We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.”
Source: The Violet Eden Chapters
“We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.”
Source: Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
“We would all do well to remember that the food chain is more like a network, and everything within that network deserves respect.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.”
“We would all prefer to solve a 1+1 equation than to find the square root, multiply, and then divide. That's partially because most times we are trying to solve equations that aren't meant for us.
January 21, 2018.”
“We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.”
“We would also have to say goodbye to the joy of watching this next generation soak up the massive quantities of love their grandmother would have given them, and seeing them learn that there was someone in the world who loved them as much as their parents did: a grandmother who was delighted by all their quirks and who thought they were the most amazing creatures on earth.”
Source: The End of Your Life Book Club
“We would also have to say goodbye to the joy of watching this next generation soak up the massive quantities of love their grandmother would have given them, and seeing them learn that there was someone in the world who loved them as much as their parents did: a grandmother who was delighted by all their quirks and who thought they were the most amazing creatures on earth. It was an idealized view of the future-but it was the one I carried in my head, and I don't think it was far off from the one my brother and sister and father and mother had.
I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.”
Source: The End of Your Life Book Club
“We would also lean on Turkey to ensure that it closes its border to the movement of jihadi groups.”
“We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.”
Source: Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.
“We would always be under The Pentagon's protective umbrella”
“We would always disagree with any words like aggression in our address.”
“We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.”
“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.”
“We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.”
“We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was”
Source: Girl in Translation
“We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.”
“We would be better off thinking of nature as a tiger than as a docile and compliant automaton that can never threaten our survival.”
“We would be deceiving both ourselves and the people if we concealed from the masses the necessity of a desperate, bloody war of extermination, as the immediate task of the coming revolutionary action.”
“We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.”
“We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami”
“We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.”
“We would be foolish and silly not to unite with people in the public health sector, the environmental community, [and] unions, to try to challenge corporate agriculture.”
“We would be glad to have your friend come here to study, but tell him that we teach Chemistry here and not Agricultural Chemistry, nor any other special kind of chemistry. ... We teach Chemistry.”
“We would be happier with what we have if we weren't so unhappy about what we don't' have”
“We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.”
Source: Husserl, shorter works
“We would be in each other's lives again. No, he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed me countless times through the years, life had already proven too short for me to hold on to that. So I let go of my hurt. I let go years of frustration between us. Most of all, I let go of any desire to change my father and I accepted him for who he was. I took all of my anguish and released it like a fistful of helium balloons to the sky, and I chose to forgive him.”
Source: Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
“We would be like young lovers on a beach, sun overhead, arm and arm intertwined, the last souls on the cliffs in the dwindling dawn.”
Source: Black Friday 2050: The powerful psychological thriller set in a terrifying high-tech future
“We would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before.”
Source: The Future of Marriage
“We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.”
“We would be put up by a family, go on daytrips, experience a new country, new food.”
Source: A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
“We would be tossed back and forth and life would just be a repeated cycle of eating, sleeping, and waking up if we do not dream and walk in the direction of our dreams.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“We would be wise to understand that the utterly galling frustration of getting knocked down can be completely offset by understanding the far greater opportunities presented to us now that we have been handed a chance to get up.”
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”
“We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.”
“We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.”
“We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform.”
“We would choreograph [ with Paul Dano] before each scene [in Swiss Army Man] and very quickly got to a place where we could improvise physically in scene and know that the other person would respond in character appropriately. So that [dynamic] was a lot of fun.”
“We would consider it cruel to confine a dog permanently in a kennel. Yet we visit zoos where hundreds of wild animals are kept permanently in the equivalent of a kennel.”
Source: Beyond the bars: the zoo dilemma
“We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up the fruits of our struggle and our people's sacrifice.”
“We would continue to handle our relations with the rest of the Continent with that kind of sensitivity.”
“We would decide that my mood is my TOP PRIORITY!
I´m going to wear it as the badge I was born to wear.
My mood is going to be evident to everyone.
And the mood that I wish to impart, the mood that I wish to share, the mood that I wish to inspire, is the mood of POSITIVE EXPECTATION for me, and all that I see.”
“We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.”
“We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.”
“We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert Downey and Jon Favreau and we're playing around, we're jamming around and we read those pages and in next couple of days that's what we do, so it was a good experience. Kind of frightening at first because you didn't quite know how it was going to work out, but they had some very talented people there so it worked out well.”
“We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“We would do the same thing that America did when the Jap[an] - when, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. America defended itself. They said praise the Lord, but they passed the ammunition.”
“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those threads and how far along we are; the most accurate prophecy being that people, and the allure of domination, never really change. We can Copenhagenise our future cities, make them as green and smart as we can, but provided we are still embedded in systems that reward cronyism, exploitation and short-term profiteering, that require poverty and degradation, it will be mere camouflage. Dystopias will have cycle lanes and host World Cups. What may save us is, in Orwell’s words, a dedication to ‘common decency’ and the perpetual knowledge that it need not be like this.”
Source: Imaginary Cities
“We would do well to ask how people describe themselves.”
Source: Cali the Destroyer