W Quotes
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“We are full of bread and gas, getting fat on the outside while inside we grow thin”
Source: Eclipse
“We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.”
“We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.”
“We are full of things that impel us outwards.
Our instinct makes us feel that our happiness must be sought outside ourselves. Our passions drive us outwards, even without objects to excite them. External objects tempt us in themselves and entice us even when we do not think about them. Thus it is no good philosophers telling us: Withdraw into yourselves and there you will find your good. We do not believe them, and those who do believe them are the most empty and silly of all.”
Source: Pensées
“We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.”
“We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.”
“We are fully free, not partially, fully free, in everything related to the future of Syria.”
“We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are
human in the truest sense of the word.”
“We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.”
Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“We are fully saved, spirit, soul and body, in seven steps: The promise of Salvation, the redemption and sanctification of our spirit, the preservation, perfection and adoption of our soul, and the glorification, or spiritualization, of our physical body.”
Source: Salvation: An In-Depth Study
“We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.”
“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”
“We are future memories. When our flesh is dust and our dreams faded we will be ghosts living in a land of legends, made real only by the memories of others. What we take with us into that realm of the dead, what we are remembered for, that will be the truth of our lives.’
– Solomon Voss, from The Edge of Illumination”
Source: The Crimson Fist
“We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.”
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
“We are gathered here to send our gratitude to Pinnacle Officer Wilcox
and FERTS, for our daily provision and protection from those who would seek to strike against our Vassals, our Fighters and our Internees.”
Source: FERTS
“We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.”
“We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.”
“We are generally not learning the thing we think we are, and even less the thing we want. We should be grateful for what makes us grow, even though it may be a love-hate relationship with the things responsible for that growth.”
Source: Dance: A Spiritual Affair
“We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,.”
“We are generally punished by where we have sinned.”
“We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.”
“We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!”
“We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.”
“We are getting close to the point where as every platform of tech that has any level of scale gets bought by either Google or Facebook or sometimes Microsoft. We are getting to the point where we see some oligopoly in terms of behavior online, and that it's really problematic because the oligopolies are completely non transparent, they are terrible in terms of labor and economic equality and they support systems of surveillance. It can create a world where we are all placed in bubbles, where the systems themselves can be manipulated by people who don't have our best interests in mind.”
“We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.”
“We are getting more and more imports from abroad.”
“We are getting older fatter and balder. Each day brings us one step closer to death. Other than that, life's a ding-a-derry.”
“We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.”
“We are getting thousands and thousands of professionals, very highly-trained people, from Puerto Rico who are now living in Florida, and who have obviously contributed a lot to this state, but the island is losing that population.”
“We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.”
“We are ghosts in Victorian gowns,
lilac apparitions with parasols…”
“We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.”
“We are given a freedom of choice to choose, but we have to choose what they want. Not what we want. Then that is not freedom, but oppression.”
“We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.”
“We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.”
Source: The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986
“We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.”
Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: First lady of the world, her acclaimed columns, 1953-1962
“We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.”
Source: JULIAN
“We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.”
Source: The Gift of Death
“We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.”
“We are given talent but we choose to have character.”
Source: Why Great Men Fall
“We are given the free-will, or the freedom of choice, to act according to our desires, and to determine whether we will believe or disbelieve in the Creator.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“We are given the potential to excel, whether we do or not is entirely up to us.”
Source: Keys to Creating Your Reality
“We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow their integrity to be breached.”
Source: Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
“We are given this hope –
we are give this promise.
A promise to a brand new night
of moonlight sonata.
The hope
to an enduring,
cheering and nurturing dawn
joined by brand new chapters
written under the care and witness
of thirteen thousand
five hundred and sixty-five
piles of ancient stars,
long trips, old books,
new dreams,
long kiss and fairy tales –
laid under the protective smiles
and strong arms
of thirteen miles
of these old and wise
olive trees.”
“We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.”
Source: Beautiful Darkness
“We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's which is forked.”
“We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.”
“We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.”
“We are giving power to people we do not know, for purposes we cannot prove, for exercise we cannot control while assuming they must be benign and beneficent without evidence and without scrutinising the circumstances of our blank cheque to them that we signed in the blood from relinquished control of our bodies. Giving the keys to the dungeon to these strangers in suits or jeans and white coats and expecting benevolence not evident in their belief system and rejected as irrelevant thereby, is the greatest common exercise in folly in human history.”
Source: TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit
“We are giving you a new service in Dubai, we call it Wonder Bus. In this bus, everyone can get preview of this nice sea & land adventure in Dubai.”