W Quotes
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“We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“We are more polarized. And some of that comes from the people and some of that comes from the media.”
“We are more powerful, more knowledgeable, better prepared than we think we ever are.”
“We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.”
“We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.”
“We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.”
Source: Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of
“We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.”
“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.”
Source: A Spy in the House of Love
“We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.”
“We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.”
“We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.”
“We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.”
“We are more than a speck of carbonic flesh flung upon an unimportant hulking mass of earth. Within each of us is the godhead we so desire to know, or as may be the case, wish to forget.”
“We are more than just a collection of bones, cobbled together by God or by eons of evolution. We have souls. We have purpose. We're more.”
Source: The Smallest Part
“We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.”
“We are more than just our bodies, but that doesn't mean we have to be shamed for them or our sexuality.”
“We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies.”
Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel
“We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are.”
Source: The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections
“We are more than stereotypes.
We are more than rice.
And we cry and laugh and dream
and hope.
Our passions open eyes.
Yet they spit on us and hate on us.
Yeah, they aren’t very nice.
But we won't ever wave the white flag.
Come and heed our battle cries.”
Source: Eastern Dragons Don't Breathe Fire
“We are more than survivors, more than victors!”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“We are more than the parts that form us.”
“We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.”
“We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.”
“We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often do we tell it to ourselves? And if we do, how often do we prove it? How often do we challenge ourselves to do something new?”
“We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.”
“We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.”
Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author
“We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.”
“We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.”
Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne
“We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.”
“We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.”
“We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy. Science will tell you that you can explode a person, but their energy still exists - even if they're decimated, the universe will preserve that in the form of heat or whatever it is. So there's a preservation of our molecules or whatever, but is there a preservation of a thing that's called the self if that thing is not actually ever one thing?”
“We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden the circle of our compassion, life can be less cruel.”
Source: The Souls of Animals
“We are mortals of dust and clay but some higher sickness within us worships the narcotic transcendence of violence.”
Source: Godeater's Son
“We are mortgaging our future.”
“We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.”
Source: The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?
“We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words.”
“We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.”
Source: Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
“We are most alive when we're in love.”
“We are most artistically caged.”
Source: Pale fire
“We are most asleep when awake.”
“We are most blessed when we see ourselves as we are seen by [the Savior] and know ourselves as we are known by Him. In this world, we do not really grasp who we are until we know whose we are. The Lord says, 'I will not forget you. I have graven you on the palms of my hands' (see Isaiah 49:15-16). He will never forget us nor our real identity. [And, neither should we ever] forget whose we are. We are His.”
“We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.”
Source: The Spiral Staircase
“We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.”
Source: Holy the Firm
“We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong”
Source: Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
“We are, most of us, paying far more for transportation than we can truly afford. And more and more of us are starting to realize it.”
Source: Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy
“We are, most of us, sleepwalkers, and we die without ever opening our eyes.”
Source: The Books in My Life