W Quotes
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“We are capable of learning.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We are capable of making our decisions, which differentiates us from other living beings on the planet.”
“We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.”
“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.”
“We are capable of thinking positive in the midst of the most trying of circumstances or events.”
Source: Waiting to Live
“We are capitalism made flesh.”
“We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems
“We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”
Source: Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems
“We are carriers of God”
“We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while we practice tolerance and respect for beliefs and ideas different from our own and for the people who hold them.”
“We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.”
“We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.”
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
“We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.”
“We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle”
“We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.”
Source: The conduct of inquiry
“We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.”
“We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.”
“We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 50: Sermons 2864-2915
“We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.”
“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.”
“We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.”
“We are certainly seeing a greater diversification of origin... it used to be that the best trained terrorist cyber facilitators were living in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, or Western Europe. These days, we are seeing increasing numbers of such individuals from North Africa and what I like to term "Greater Syria" - Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, and Syria itself.”
“We are chained, but you just don't realise it...”
“We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.”
“We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden”
“We are chained to that which we do not forgive”
Source: The Locket
“We are chained to the earth by a chain of gold, but we dare not sever it; for fear of what lies beyond the drop.”
“We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.”
“We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.”
“We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We are changed by every circumstance, which we confidently conquered.”
“We are changed forever. But the moments remain, in moth dust fallen from us, in firefly-light and flickering stars, in the monuments of our breathing, in smallnesses that become our mended bones.”
“We are changed from animals into humans through the acquisition of invented language, and this transforms our nervous system and brings it under thoughtful, conscious, cultural control and frees us from the animal instincts that imprison all other animals.”
Source: Consciousness: The Real Neuro-Linguistic Programming
“We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.”
Source: Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
“We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.”
Source: Life After God
“We are changing the way we govern ourselves - not just in the way we work in New Delhi, but also in the way we work together with state governments, districts and cities. Because we know, as you do, that our vision may be formed in Delhi, but our success will be determined by state capitals.”
“We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order.
[Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]”
“We are chemical apes: having discovered the capacity to extract, purify, and react molecules to produce new and wondrous molecules, we have begun to spin a new chemical universe around ourselves. Our bodies our cells, our genes are thus being immersed and reimmersed in a changing flux of molecules -pesticides, pharmaceutical drugs, plastics, cosmetics, estrogens, food products, hormones, even novel forms of physical impulses, such as radiation and magnetism. Some of these, inevitably, will be carcinogenic. We cannot wish this world away; our task, the, is to sift through it vigilantly to discriminate bona fide carcinogens from innocent and useful bystanders.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“We are chemists in the laboratory of the Infinite. What, then shall we create?”
Source: 365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes
“We are 'chetan' (Soul, eternal element), while obstacles are 'nis-chetan' (non-living). Therefore, 'chetan' will ultimately win!”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our little hurts will be made much of - to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.”
Source: Adam Bede
“We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.”
“We are children of the Earth...respect your mother.”
“We are children of tragedy
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Source: The Cruel Prince
“We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.”
“We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.”
Source: The Gospel of John
“We are Christians and Catholics not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door; and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living.”
“We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men.”