W Quotes
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“We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.”
“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.”
“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”
Source: The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
“We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.”
“We would rather hold our stance and defend our case. We often want to be right and we often want to get our way, and being loving or kind makes us seem soft and gives the other person the belief that we can be walked over and trodden upon. We never want to be taken for granted nor abused, so we generally fight back, consequently pushing away our partner instead of moving towards them.”
“We would rather see girls stopped dead—stuck in a constant childhood that never decays—than let them grow into women who can pursue their desires.”
Source: Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
“We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.”
Source: War speeches
“We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.”
“We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”
“We would rather starve than sell our national honor.”
“We would root out terrorism if the BSP comes to the centre”
“We would routinely be exposed to the sunset as we were waiting to open up the telescopes for nighttime viewing atop the very high altitude Mauna Kea mountain in Hawaii, USA. That would be followed by exposure to bright industrial LASER light during the night. It was around this time that I started suffering with chronic fatigue and mental confusion. I had these exposures in my mid thirties and by my mid forties I was seeing rainbow halos around bright nighttime lights and my mental and physical health mysteriously collapsed.”
“We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that’s not what sends you to heaven or Hell.”
“We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] Obama.”
“We would see the effects of cosmic rays in images from the telescope electronic camera’s.”
“We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant child of pirates, but which within operated by a decentralized grassroots democracy without any developed system of social rank. How to explain this? Are there any real historical analogies? In fact, the most obvious parallel would be pirate ships themselves. Pirate captains often tried to develop a reputation among outsiders as terrifying, authoritarian desperadoes, but on board their own ships not only were they elected by majority vote and could be removed by the same means at any time, they were also empowered to give commands only during chase or combat, and otherwise had to take part in the assembly like anybody else. There were no ranks on pirate ships, other than the captain and the quartermaster (the latter presided over the assembly). What’s more, we know of explicit attempts to translate this form of organization onto the Malagasy mainland. Finally, as we’ll see, there is a long history of buccaneers or other questionable characters who found themselves a foothold in some Malagasy port town, trying to pass themselves off as kings and princes without doing anything to reorganize actual social relations on the ground in the surrounding communities.
Discipline on board sixteenth-century European ships was arbitrary and brutal, so crews often had good reason to rise up; but the law on land was unforgiving. A mutinous crew knew they had signed their own death warrants. To go pirate was to embrace this fate. A mutinous crew would declare war “against the entire world,” and hoist the “Jolly Roger.” The pirate flag, which existed in many variations, is revealing in itself. It was normally taken to be an image of the devil, but often it contained not only a skull or skeleton, but also an hourglass, signifying not a threat (“you are going to die”) so much as a sheer statement of defiance (“we are going to die, it’s only a matter of time”)—which crews making out such a flag on the horizon would likely have found, if anything, even more terrifying. Flying the Jolly Roger was a crew’s way of announcing they accepted they were on their way to hell.”
Source: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
“We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.”
“We would sit down fifteen, sometimes twenty, to the table on seder nights: my parents; the maiden aunts - Birdie, Len, and before the war, Dora, sometimes Annie; cousins of varying degree, visiting from France or Switzerland; and always a stranger or two would come. There was a beautiful, embroidered tablecloth which Annie had brought us from Jerusalem, gleaming white and gold on the table. My mother, knowing that sooner or later there would be accidents, always had a preemptive "spill" herself - she would manage somehow, very early in the evening, to tip a bottle of red wine onto the tablecloth, and thereafter no guest would be embarrassed if they knocked over a glass. Though I know she did this deliberately, I could never predict how or when the "accident" would occur; it always looked absolutely spontaneous and authentic. (She would immediately spread salt on he wine stain, and it became much paler, almost disappearing; I wondered why salt had this power.)”
Source: Uncle Tungsten
“We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.”
Source: What Happens When People Stop Being Polite: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
“We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all these things that are crippling us. We need big, bold, dangerous, crazy ideas to solve these problems. When failure is not an option, innovation and creativity are not options.”
“We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.”
Source: A Mixture of Madness
“We would start over, and that was the end of it.”
Source: Alive Day: A Memoir
“We would stop looking at the world as different entities or the subjects, once we consume, dissolve in the supreme power by self-accepting and declaring oneness in all, the omnipresence, an existence of cosmic consciousness within us.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.”
Source: Sonora
“We would take millions [of undocumented illegal] if they would serve in the military.”
“We would take something old and tired and common - coffee - and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee throughout the centuries.”
Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
“We would take the same position as the majority of the world about this, including this issue where Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon made a commitment to pull Israeli troops out of Gaza.”
“We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.”
“we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.”
“We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.”
“We would walk away from the past, if we had a future.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“We would want the solution to the safety problem before somebody figures out the solution to the AI problem.”
“We would welcome that, but it's going to require a commitment on the part of the North Koreans to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and pursuing a stable relationship with their neighbors. Instead, we've seen a lot of provocations and a flouting of international norms and obligations.”
“We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected ourselves. The large liberty of others displeases us, and yet we will not have our own desires denied us. We will have others kept under by strict laws, but in no sort will ourselves be restrained. And thus it appears how seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.”
“We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.”
“We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.”
“We wouldn't like it, if the sunrise came right after the sunset! Love grows with longing; the longer the night, the greater our love for the sunrise!”
“we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how”
“We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.”
Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
“We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.”
“We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us.”
“We wouldn't be so naive to say something like "feel any competition with Coldplay." All we can do is come out and gig, and we have a really good loyal fanbase, people really "get" the band, and that's all we can do.”
“We wouldn't be successful if we didn't have independent thinkers who can argue and then resolve their arguments.”
“We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.”
Source: Mr. Phillips
“We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in the last election. That caused an epiphany in the Senate, that's for sure. So all of a sudden we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. That's a big victory.”
“We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.”
“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.”
“We wouldn't need any job training centers if our education was working in the first place.”