W Quotes
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“What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.”
“What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom in every moment.”
“What we see is not always what exists.”
“What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.”
“What we see is what they're trying to sell us.”
“What we see of the real world is not the unvarnished real world but a model of the real world, regulated and adjusted by sense data - a model that is constructed so that it is useful for dealing with the real world.”
Source: The God Delusion
“What we see of the universe is vast. We know that the universe is something like 90 billion light-years across.”
“What we see on the TV screen, or the film screen or what we listen to in music, we have an illusion of what Prince Charming looks like or Cinderella's gonna look like in our life and we forget about what true love really means.”
“What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.”
Source: The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
“What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.”
“What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.”
“What we see, what we say, and what we think is what we get.”
Source: The Happy Medium: Speaking the Language of Intuition
“What we see, we see and seeing is changing”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978
“What we seek has never been lost. It has only been hidden behind the noise we were taught to believe.”
Source: PISTIS: The Art of Trusting the Unseen
“What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.”
“What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.”
“What we seek in travel is neither discovery nor trade but rather a gentle deterritorialization: we want to be taken over by the journey - in other words, by absence. As our metal vectors transcend meridians, oceans and poles, absence takes on a fleshy quality. The clandestineness of the depths of private life gives way to annihilation by longitude and latitude. But in the end the body tires of not knowing where it is, even if the mind finds this absence exalting, as if it were a quality proper to itself.
Perhaps, after all, what we seek in others is the same gentle deterritorialization that we seek in travel. Instead of one's own desire, instead of discovery, we are tempted by exile in the desire of the other, or by the desire of the other as an ocean to cross. The looks and gestures of lovers already have the distance of exile about them; the language of lovers is an expatriation in words that are afraid to signify; and the bodies of lovers are a tender hologram to eye and hand, offering no resistance and hence susceptible of being crisscrossed, like airspace, by desire. We move around with circumspection on a mental planet of circumvolutions, and from our excesses and passions we bring back the same transparent memories as we do from our travels.”
“What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: Selections for Today
“What we seek is what we are.”
“What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, who can make judgments about life as it is, and as it must be, and encourage the people to make those decisions which can bring not only prosperity and security, but happiness to the people of the United Sates and those who depend upon it.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.”
“What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.”
Source: The morning is near us: a novel
“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.”
Source: Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
“What we seek whole-heartedly shall manage to make inroads into lives”
“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”
“What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.”
“What we shall be, the heavenly Father knows from the very start of our lives.”
“What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.”
Source: Letters Papers from Prison
“What we share is more powerful than what divides us.”
Source: I Am a Girl from Africa
“What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.”
“What we share with animals is a desire for choice. It's a desire to have control over our life and a desire to live and use choice as a way in which we can facilitate our ability to live and that is something we really were born with.”
“What we share with another ceases to be our own.”
“What we shared and what we were able to accomplish on the football field was something unbelievable.”
“What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.”
“What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.”
“What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.”
“What we should be doing [in US] is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it.”
“What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.”
“What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.”
“What we should be focusing on - and finding solutions for - is ensuring that every American has health care in this country, no matter what level, no matter what age. No one should die because they can't afford health insurance. No one should go bankrupt because they can't afford it.”
“What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution. And what we need to do is to present those fairly from a scientific point of view. And we should lay out areas in which the evidence supports evolution and the areas in the evidence that does not.”
“What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of the hole and thrown to the hounds, we have to be very concerned. Where we have hunts where foxes are bred for the sport of it, that is not pest control. That is pure bloody sport.”
“What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.”
“What we should do is require or at least permit innovators to license their green innovations free of charge in exchange for public payments based on the impact this innovation has on the environment - emissions averted or something of this sort.”
“What we should fear the most is fearing what we shouldn’t.”
“What we should focus on are not events or people or things, but our thoughts that control how we see the world through our lens..”
“What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.”
Source: On Europe
“What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'”
“What we should have done is kept the same team that played in the '95 World Series. Those trades (Eddie Murray & Carlos Baerga) caused a lot of chaos in the organization. I didn't feel like we were moving in the right direction.”