W Quotes
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“What we have in Washington is total gridlock.”
“What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.”
“What we have is a data glut.”
“What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him”
“What we have is a great number of people working extremely hard to make sure that death number stays where it is and the people that have to go to shelters are taken care of tonight and for as many days as it takes and that we support our first responders that are out there keeping security.”
“What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.”
“What we have is given by God and to teach it to others is to return it to him.”
“What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.”
“What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.”
“What we have is the here and now, and what we have is each other, and let's find a way to deal truthfully with each other.”
“What we have is the now, the working for others. To be of service, to celebrate your life. We must nurture the love that we have created.”
“What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.”
“What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.”
Source: Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1824-1838
“What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.”
Source: Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
“What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.”
“What we have lost to a very great degree is the possibility of resistance, confrontation or reform of taking the struggle for freedom back into the workplace. Many of the private sector jobs worst hit by long hours and rising stress have a low rate of trade union membership. The number of workplaces with high union density and well-established collective bargaining fell from 47 per cent in 1980 to only 17 per cent in 1998.26 Two-thirds of all workplaces have no union presence at all.”
“What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.”
Source: The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.”
Source: Going out of our minds: the metaphysics of liberation
“What we have never had, remains; It is the things we have that go.”
Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)
“What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.”
“What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.”
“What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.”
“What we have now as Banareng carries More power than anything u can ever imagine, we must never give-up. And we must remember that life comes in phases, each phase of life has so many life issues to face until that phase phases out. Phase after phase, we face so many things, the good and the bad, the solemn and canal, realities and fantasies, but we must not be demotivated as we journey on in life. There are so many people who fall at each phase of life because of how they face such phase with their actions, words, thoughts and deeds. So through spirits, together we can help one another to rise again.The phases of life we meet matters a lot, but how we face each phase with our actions, words, thoughts and deeds and in managing our comforts and discomforts for a distinctive or an otherwise footprints is what we need to ponder over and over before our total life phases out.”
“What we have now in America is a surveillance society.”
“What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the great cities throughout the world and whether you live in Shanghai or you live in Sao Paulo, you have the ability of seeing and knowing the ideas of some of the greatest minds of our generation.”
“What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.”
“What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people.”
“What we have now is doctors who are actually better technically at what they're doing in their specialty than 30 or 40 years ago, but we lost the relationship, when the doctor would look people in the eye and say, 'I care about you. We can do this together.'”
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of us."
- Helen Keller”
“What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political vehicle that's available to us to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear capability state.”
“What we have seen for a very long time is large corporations shutting down plants in this country, plants that are often profitable, in order to get cheap labor all over the world. And that is one of the reasons why the middle class in this country is disappearing.We have lost our manufacturing base, and that's an issue that has got to be dealt with.”
“What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.”
“What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world ofwork, rather than the labor markets and industries responding to the parenting and family needs of their employees.”
Source: Parenting in an unresponsive society: managing work and family life
“What we have to ask is this: what can we morally expect of and allow to people whom we deploy to fulfill this or that social role :police officer, school teacher, physician? This may sometimes lead to difficult social decisions - e.g. should police be permitted to illegally import drugs as part of a sting operation? In the end, I think "common - that is, critical - morality" should determine the limits of the police role.”
“What we have to be is what we are.”
Source: The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
“What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.”
“What we have to continue to remind ourselves is that violence is a choice.”
“What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.”
“What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.”
“What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.”
“What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.”
“What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.”
“What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.”
“What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.”
“What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry : the 1893 Text
“What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as liberal democracy, free markets and Europe with suspicion.”
“What we have to do is to find a solution that the interests of the national teams are respecting the interests of the clubs. And also the clubs they shall respect the interests and the aspirations of national teams.”