W Quotes
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“We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.”
“We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth; of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!”
“We are in this together. None of us truly walk in isolation, even when we cannot sense the presence of another for miles upon miles. Even in the worst of our desolation. Even during our coldest 3am breakdown. Even when we shut out the world and spin in circles until we collapse. Even then the light still gets in. Even then the heart still opens and reaches, tendrils of hope curling and bending toward slivers of light. Upward, outward, in all directions – seeking light at all cost. One way or another, we all grow toward the light.”
“We are in this together, remember? When you fall apart, I will pick you up, just as you have done for me a million times before.”
Source: Ailene
“We are in this world not only for ourselves but for others.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We are in this world to fulfill a specific sacred mission.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.”
“We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.”
Source: Dracula
“We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.”
Source: Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: In English Prose
“We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“We are in uncharted territory" when it comes to sex and the internet, says Justin Garcia, a research scientist at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. "There have been two major transitions" in heterosexual mating, Garcia says, "in the last four million years. The first was around ten to fifteen thousand years ago, in the agricultural revolution, when we became less migratory and more settled," leading to the establishment of marriage as a cultural contract.
"And the second major transition is with the rise of the Internet," Garcia says. Suddenly, instead of meeting through proximity, community connections, and family and friends, people could meet each other virtually and engage in amorous activity with the click of a button. Internet meeting is now surpassing every other form. “It’s changing so much about the way we act both romantically and sexually,” Garcia says. “It is unprecedented from an evolutionary standpoint.”
And yet this massive shift in our behavior has gone almost completely unexamined, especially given how the internet permeates modern life. While there have been studies about how men and women use social media differently- how they use language and present themselves differently, for example- there's not a lot of research about how they behave sexually online; and there is virtually nothing about how girls and boys do. While there has been concern about the online interaction of children and adults, it's striking that so little attention has been paid to the ways in which the Internet has changed the sexual behavior of girls and boys interacting together. This may be because the behavior has been largely hidden or unknown, or, again, due to the fear of not seeming "sex-positive," mistaking responsibility for judgement.
And there are questions to ask, from the standpoint of girls' and boys' physical and emotional health and the ethics of their treatment of each other. Sex on a screen is different from sex that develops in person, this much seems seems self-evident, just as talking on a screen is different from face-to-face communication. And so if talking on a screen reduces one's ability to be empathic, for example, then how does sex on a screen change sexual behavior? Are people more likely to act aggressively or unethically, as in other types of online communication? How do gender roles and sexism play into cybersex? And how does the influence of porn, which became available online at about the same time as social networking, factor in?”
Source: American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
“We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.”
“We are inadvertently in love with the Influence of Power and we need to be in love with the Power of Influence.”
“We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.”
“We are incarnations of our creator”
Source: Pearls Of Eternity
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq
“We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.”
“We are inclined to confuse freedom and democracy, which we regard as moral principles, with the way in which they are practiced in America with capitalism, federalism, and the two-party system, which are not moral principles but simply the preferred and accepted practices of the American people.”
“We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“We are inclined to tunnel-vision on what is readily available to us and stifle paths of growth. Journey down the paths less explored.”
“We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves.”
“We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access.”
“We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.”
“We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.”
“We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.”
“We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.”
“We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.”
Source: The Mind in Making
“We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.”
“We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.”
Source: On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949
“We are indebted to ourselves to always remain hungry for new knowledge.”
“We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.”
“We are indeed a house divided. But the division between race and race, class and class, will not be dissolved by massive infusions of brotherly sentiment. The division is not the result of bad sentiment, and therefore will not be healed by rhetoric. Rather the division and the bad sentiments are both reflections of vast and growing inequalities in our socioeconomic system--inequalities of wealth, of status, of education, of access to political power. Talk of brotherhood and "tolerance" (are we merely to "tolerate" one another?) might once have had a cooling effect, but increasingly it grates on the nerves. It evokes contempt not because the values of brotherhood are wrong--they are more important than ever--but because it just does not correspond to the reality we see around us. And such talk does nothing to eliminate the inequalities that breed resentment and deep discontent.”
Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
“We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“We are indeed children of Light. What an endless mart goes on in the Light. In the Light is our sleeping and waking, the play of our life and death.
Beneath one great canopy, in the ray of one great sun, slowly, very slowly, burn the unnumbered lamps of life.
In the midst of this unending Light I lose myself; amidst this intolerable radiance I wander like one blind.
We are indeed children of Light. Why then do we fear when we see the Light? Come, let us look all around and see, here no man hath cause for any fear.
In this boundless ocean of Light, if a tiny lamp goes out, let it go; who can say that it will not burn again?”
“We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.”
Source: Withnail and I
“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.”
“We are indeed the light of the world-but only if our switch is turned on.”
Source: Being Happy in an Unhappy World
“We are indefuckingstructible.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“We are Indians, firstly and lastly.”
“We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to and defined by the whole. Community is the human dimension of that fabric.”
“We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul - yours and mine and everyone else's on the planet - incarnates over and over and over again in a physical body, emotional astral body and mental body. These three bodies are temporary bodies that the soul creates and uses for a given time, long or short.”
“We are individually responsible for our own happiness and destiny”
Source: Take A Little Soul Time
“We are individuals. There's free will. There's timing. We can make the same things in totally different ways.”
“We are inducting Connor "The Crusher" Michalek into the WWE Hall of Fame with the Warrior Award, and it's going to be really hard with the waves of emotion that will set in. I will have to share with everyone what he meant to me and also deal with how sad his story is. He was so inspiring to people, it is going to be really emotional for me. It should be very special!”
“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”
“We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.”
“We are infinite stars dancing in this finite world. Let’s create something eternal out of our life to taste the immortality while we are here…We are infinite stars dancing in this finite world.”
“We are infinitely more than our limitations and afflictions.”
“We are informed by the land and our bonds to a particular landscape, and in this animist universe
we are connected to the plants, creatures, elements
and earth spirits that dwell there. The love of the land and our community is the only true wealth we have.
We are part of the Earth and the Earth is part of us.”
Source: Ancient Spirit Rising: Reclaiming Your Roots & Restoring Earth Community
“We are infused with the passion to rise above the limits of our own humanity. And such a passion is so entirely intoxicating that those limits are not defined as the things that we are determined to surpass, but the point at which we begin the surpassing.”