W Quotes
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“We are accountable to the next generation. We have to give the next generation a world that does not frighten them.”
“We are accountable to the next generation. We have to give the next generation a world that inspires them - a place of gender and racial equality.”
“We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.”
Source: A Series of Pamphlets
“We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.”
“We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.”
“We are accustomed to say in New England that few and fewer pigeons visit us every year. Our forests furnish no mast for them. So, it would seem, few and fewer thoughts visit each growing man from year to year, for the grove in our minds is laid waste, — sold to feed unnecessary fires of ambition, or sent to mill, and there is scarcely a twig left for them to perch on. They no longer build nor breed with us. In some more genial season, perchance, a faint shadow flits across the landscape of the mind, cast by the wings of some thought in its vernal or autumnal migration, but, looking up, we are unable to detect the substance of the thought itself. Our winged thoughts are turned to poultry. They no longer soar….”
Source: Walking
“We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies”
“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.”
“We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.”
“We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.”
“We are acting on our desire; there is nothing wrong. Just remember if it does not pan out, if our desires go unfulfilled, it's perfect!”
“We are actively preparing a partial privatization of Rosneft itself. It is the best proof that our major plans have remained unchanged. Another example would be one of the largest Russian diamond mining companies in the world. We are privatizing part of our stake in that as well.”
“We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!”
“We are actually giving ourselves a gift of growth and enrichment every time we recognise and appreciate the good in someone else.”
“We are actually living in a million parallel realities every single minute.”
“We are actually more afraid of change than we are of death”
Source: Why People Don't Heal and How They Can
“We are actually starting to manipulate our bodies, because we can, into a shape. We are becoming our own art. But what happens for me is that it desexualizes everything. You know, you start to look more and more polished, more and more lacquered and you look like a beautiful car. Does anyone want to sleep with you? Does anyone want to touch you? Does anyone want to kiss you? Maybe not, because you're too scary.”
“We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always be a part of me in you yes I taunted and tempted you with my forbidden fruit does that make me the serpent too? Believe what you will but if I am exiled alone I know we will be together again someday naked without shame in paradise My thanks to you for being in on my sin”
“we are adaptive rather than disordered”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
“We are addicted to being the way we are”
“We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.”
“We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.”
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
Source: Quote Me Everyday
“We are Adepta Sororitas. We look to the heart for purity, not upon the face.”
Source: Requiem Infernal
“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.”
Source: Nightwood
“We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.”
“We are advancing, we are responding, we are having major apprehensions of the most wanted, most dangerous criminals, overall, we continue to work toward a Mexico of peace that we all want.”
“We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”
Source: The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern.”
“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung
“We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning”
“We are afflicted with a darkness of the soul and fall in love with our pain.”
Source: Night Soldiers
“We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we’re not good enough.”
“We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.”
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“We are afraid of losing what we have.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“We are afraid of love because Love is a small death. Love requires that we should surrender, and we don't want to surrender at all. We would like the OTHER to surrender, we would like the other to be a slave. But the same is the desire from the other side: man wants the woman to be a slave; and of course the woman also wants the same, the SAME desire is there. Their methods of enslaving each other may be different, but the desire is the same.”
“We are afraid of religion because it interprets rather than observance. Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allowed to starve.”
“We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.”
Source: A short history of decay
“We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.”
“We are afraid of what we do not know. Therefore, the secret of fear is in knowing as much as you can. Leaving all the dogmas behind you!”
“We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.”
“We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.”
“We are afraid that our adult sexuality will somehow damage our kids, that it’s inappropriate or dangerous. But whom are we protecting? Children who see their primary caregivers at ease expressing their affection (discreetly, within appropriate boundaries) are more likely to embrace sexuality with the healthy combination of respect, responsibility, and curiosity it deserves. By censoring our sexuality, curbing our desires, or renouncing them altogether, we hand our inhibitions intact to the next generation.”
“We are afraid that our failures will mean that we will not be loved. But we don’t earn love. How we treat others does, of course, affect our relationships. I do not want to be near the man who beat me. I do not trust a friend who has repeatedly lied to me. But we are loved for who we are, not for what we do. Love is larger than what we do. Love moves through us, if we let it.
One day I realized that I could love someone and still decide to separate myself from them if our behaviour together was repeatedly damaging to each other. I did not have to stop loving him. And if I love another for who she is, not because she earns my love with her actions, and the same must also be true for those who love me. This isn’t a license to treat those who love us badly, but it helps us step off the endless treadmill of doing for others, trying to be what we think they want us to be, in an attempt to earn their love. It doesn’t work: we can’t earn love.”
Source: The Invitation
“We are afraid that we have not lived.
We are not afraid of dying.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”
Source: Book of common sense etiquette
“We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.”
“We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.”
“We are African in origin and American in birth.”