W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.”
Source: Cool memories
“We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.”
“We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.”
Source: the new industrial state
“We are becoming who we will be-forever.”
Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
“We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?”
“We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.”
Source: Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States
“We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.”
“We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency. The human race, in fact, is surrounded by a large area of unrealized possibilities, a challenge to the spirit of exploration.”
Source: New Bottles for New Wine: Essays
“We are beginning to regain a knowledge of Creation, a knowledge forfeited by the fall of Adam. By God's mercy we can begin to recognize His Wonderful works and wonders also in flowers when we ponder his might and goodness. Therefore we laud, magnify and thank Him.”
“We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.”
“We are beginning to see that government by majorities means abandoning all the affairs of the country to the tide-waiters who make up the majorities in the House and in election committees; to those, in a word, who have no opinion of their own.”
Source: The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings
“We are beginning to see the benefits of globalconsolidation.”
“We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time.”
Source: Cosmos: A Co-Creator's Guide to the Whole-World
“We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.”
“We are beginning to shift into life code. And in the process of shifting into life code, every life form on this planet is coded in a double helix with a sugar phosphate backbone. And that codes whether you become a bacteria, an orange, a lemon, a Lemur, a Cow, a sheep, a human being, a politician, any one of these things is all coded in this four-letter code.”
“We are beginning to understand that the underlying fabric of reality has a lot to do with consciousness itself. Yet, they have not started to explore this as a practical science. Science will build entire careers around Planck, Schrodinger, Steinmetz while refusing to address their base most teachings.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“We are beginning to understand that the world is always being made fresh and never finished; that activism can be the journey rather than the arrival; that's struggle doesn't always have to be confrontational but can take the form of reaching out to find common ground with the many others in our society who are also seeking ways out from alienation, isolation, privatization, and dehumanization by corporate globalization.”
Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
“we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.”
Source: Sex and Common-sense
“We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.”
“We are behaving like people without compassion and love for the most vulnerable section of society. The children of the universe are without a spokesperson, they are voiceless...We are all touched by the atrocities committed against children: sexual, physical abuse, child slave labor, educational neglect. We feel ashamed. Angry. Appalled. But there is no action...No action.”
“We are being Americans when we hold our government to account. We are being false to our troops when we send them to a needless war, betraying their trust when we shortchange them on protective equipment, and cheating them when we silently cut their benefits.”
“We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.”
“We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.”
Source: Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice
“We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.”
“We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.”
“We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.”
“We are being created in stages, one man at a time. The many colors of the Spirit of God are layering over our soul to form Christ within us. Our soul is being saved; the Son of God is being born in us. We are waiting patiently for our bodies to be changed, and the end of the whole process is the glorification, or blending, of all of our parts into one, new spiritual man.”
Source: Salvation: An In-Depth Study
“We are being developed by what we have done, and what we do, not only physically and verbally, but mentally also. What we now do in mind and speech and body will determine how we will become. The different forms and idiosyncrasies of all beings and things – all worlds in fact – depend on this inexorable causality of evolutionary action, or karma. Karma is not mysterious. Karma doesn‘t mean „fate“, although in a way it occupies the place of fate. Karma means „evolution, evolutionary causality.“ (Pages 79-80)”
Source: The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism
“We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.”
Source: War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
“We are being inexorably drawn in by a Final cause – the Omega Point – divinity. Divinity = perfect symmetry = the total, flawless alignment of every monad in the Singularity, which equates to the resetting of every monad and the end of a cosmic cycle. This is the moment of Divine Suicide – when all the Gods die. This is Ragnarok. This is Götterdammerung. All the gods must perish. Each cyclical universe must die. Scientists talk of the Heat Death brought about by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. There’s simply no way out.”
Source: Free Will and Will to Power
“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”
Source: Christianity and Culture
“We are being prepared daily for a greater task. Every training should be passionately pursued.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We are being programmed by mental pygmies.”
“We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.”
“We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last.”
“We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.”
“We are being taught that "Akhand Bhart" was established before Adam A.S.?”
“We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work - and not to shirk work - but also to get the skills for work. That is a new duty we are introducing.”
“We are being very nomadic with the truth, yes?”
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“We are being watched. It's now time for us to watch the watchers.”
“We are being wiped off the face of this earth
At an extremely alarming rate
And even more alarming is the fact
That we are not fighting back”
“We are beings emanating energy of multiple colors and sounds of Light.”
Source: The Art of HealingArt: The Keys to Power and Awareness
“We are beings of immense potential, ability and skills. In order to realize our God given talents we need to break through the fear barrier, which through its invisible walls traps us better than any physical prison can be constructed by the hands of man. Our human will and faith can break any barriers that fear can construct.”
“We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion.”
“We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.”
Source: The Wall And The Abyss
“We are beloved spirit sons and daughters of heavenly parents, with a divine nature and destiny. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, loved us enough to give His life for us. His Atonement provides the way for us to progress on the path to our heavenly home, through sacred priesthood ordinances and covenants.”
“We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.”
Source: The Politics of Experience
“We are bent on weakening bonds in the name of growth and independance,then spend out adulthoods wondering why we have trouble getting close to other people.”
Source: Breastfeeding an Adopted Baby and Relactation
“We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.”
“We are best to worry less about what others grow in their gardens, and more about the weeds that grow in ours.”
Source: Feast