W Quotes
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“We are a terrible defensive team right now. We're not putting forth the maximum effort that we need to put forth, especially in our position. You'd think that we'd put forth that maximum effort to not only win the game, but to get a good rhythm to get into the playoffs.”
“We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments. I encourage all women everywhere to advocate for themselves and for their future. See your doctor and be proactive about your health.”
“We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?”
“We are a time-starved people, obsessed with fitting huge achievements into our few years. In the process, we often fill our buckets with things that don't matter or work. But when we give up on trying to change what can't be changed, and simply embrace what we love, a miracle occurs. We notice that the moment to be happy has already arrived. It's here, now.”
“We are a totality made of many interlocking parts. This is why we must remember that our individual healing is directly connected to our collective healing.”
Source: Awaken Your Roots: Reclaim Your Ancestry and Sovereignty by Heeding the Jaguar’s Call
“We are a tribal species. Unlike young schoolchildren, we prefer division to addition. We divide ourselves into groups of our own justification, sensible or not. Hunters or gatherers. Settlers or nomads. Men or women. Cis or trans. Natives or immigrants. Citizens or noncitizens. Black or White. Rich or poor. Gay or straight. Believers or nonbelievers. Extroverts or introverts. Rural or urban. Nationalists or globalists. Republican or Democrat. Conservative or progressive.”
Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
“We are a very big mining country and historically have been exporters of raw minerals. There is no particular reason why we should not be processing those further.”
“We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.”
“We are a very colorful family. Everybody knows our mistakes. But I think that people can relate to all of our mistakes and all or good and bad points.”
“We are a very crafty family.”
“We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.”
“We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.”
“We are a very typical Spanish family - a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!”
“We are a very, very unusual species.”
“We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.”
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.”
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
Source: Conversations with Carl Sagan
“We are a way of the universe knowing itself.”
“We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting daylight and darkness with incorporeal obscenities. From across an immeasurable divide, we brought the supernatural into all that is manifest. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance. Our heartbeats are numbered, our steps counted. Even as we survive and reproduce, we know ourselves to be dying in a dark corner of infinity. Wherever we go, we know not what expects our arrival but only that it is there.”
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
“We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them.”
“We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting pot.”
“We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.”
“We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.”
“We are able to help animals all around the world as a result of the media and entertainment business, which is able to spread compassion and change at rapid speed.”
“We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!”
“We are able to overcome grievances towards others when we understand that everyone is acting from their own fallible experiences in life. You can only react to anything, from your own storage of life experience that's happened to you thus far. No one can possibly react to anything beyond their own personal storage box of life. That's why it's bound to be fallible, bound to hurt someone else who's coming from somewhere else, and that's also why sometimes something explodes! Nothing is ever personally about us. We all look back ten years later and then see what we could have said or done differently. Better. It's the same way for everybody, and that's how we can let things go.”
“We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.”
Source: The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 1: The Holiness of God / Chosen by God
“We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.”
“We are able to thank God only because of God
11/11/2024, 10:18, Monday”
Source: The Yellow Diary : A Short Story
“We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.”
Source: The Book of Daniel: A Novel
“We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.”
“We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.”
“We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming”
“We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or choices. The only significant choice we will have will be how we adjust to this new regime. That choice - not whether, but how to reduce energy usage and make a transition to renewable alternatives - will have profound ethical and political ramifications.”
Source: The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
“We are about to have a racial explosion.”
“We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.”
“We are about to part," said Neville. "Here are the boxes; here are the cabs. There is Percival in his billycock hat. He will forget me. He will leave my letters lying about among guns and dogs unaswered. I shall send him poems and he will perhaps reply with a picture post card. But it is for that that I love him. I shall propose a meeting - under a clock, by some Cross; and shall wait and he will not come. It is for that that I love him.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer's spells. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.
A computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes programs precisely and accurately. Thus, like the sorcerer's apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. Even small errors (usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and unanticipated consequences.”
Source: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
“We are absolutely right to condemn the suicide bomber's targeting of innocent civilians and mourn his victims. But as we have seen, in war the state also targets such victims; during the 20th century, the rate of civilian deaths rose sharply and now stands at 90 percent. In the West we solemnize the deaths of our regular troops carefully and recurrently honor the memory of the soldier who dies do his country. Yet the civilian deaths we cause are rarely mentioned, and there has been no sustained outcry in the West against them. Suicide bombing shocks us to the core; but should it be more shocking than the deaths of thousands of children in their homelands every every year because of land mines? Or collateral damage in a drone strike?”
“We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.”
Source: Pale fire
“We are accessories to human crime.”
Source: Ben Archer and the World Beyond
“We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe.”
Source: The Last Star
“We are accountable for our actions as we exercise our moral agency. If we understand this principle and make righteous choices, our lives will be blessed.”
“We are accountable for our health and hygiene. But our health and hygiene are not just limited to our physical bodies. Our physical bodies hold our soul and so we need to maintain the health and hygiene of our soul, as we maintain the health and hygiene of our physical bodies.”
Source: Divine Consciousness: The Secret Story of James The Brother of Jesus, St Paul and the Early Christian Church
“We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.”
Source: How to Be Your Own Best Friend
“We are accountable to everything that we do. What goes around comes around.”
“We are accountable to everything we do. What goes around comes around.”