W Quotes
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“We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing.”
“We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it.”
“We are not ‘censored’ in the traditional way in the United States: writers are not beaten or killed because of their words, and no Ministry of Truth enforces an official version of what can be printed and thought. But in this culture of images, we are censoring ourselves. That may be more insidious and long-lasting. What I mean is that we disparage long-term complexity, and extol superficiality. We ignore reading, and lavish time on images. To read, in my mind, is to consider and to think. To see an image is to react. What happens when we start believing the world and what is important in it are only these reactions and prejudices? What have you become when the most expected of you is simply to press a ‘Like’ button? What kind of gulag is it when its inhabitants are too stupid to understand they are its prisoners?”
“We are not certain, we are never certain.”
“We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.”
“We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
“We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.”
Source: The Quotable Billy Graham
“We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.”
“We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.”
“We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.”
“We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.”
Source: A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings
“We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Character and opinion in the United States. The genteel tradition at bay. Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics. Philosophical heresy
“We are not competing for the good when we only compete for numbers, being preoccupied with how many converts we are gaining. The true competition for good only happens when we are implementing our values of justice.”
“We are not complete in ourselves without others, without a world to complement our self-conception—and were we to become so complete, we could not bear it! The fullness of ourselves would break us. We burn. The point of Figment/Fragment/Filament”—claws spread to encompass the whole warehouse space—“is to reflect, refract the beauty of physical form, the glorious futility of our quest for complete knowledge, mastery, or independence.”
Source: The Ruin of Angels
“We are not completely autonomous.”
“We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.”
“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. This story deals with gentlefolk, or with those who are obliged to pretend that they are gentlefolk.”
Source: Howards End
“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”
“We are not confused, it's just the conflict between what we say and what we do.”
“We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“We are not consistent. We have both these dark sides and some light as well.”
“We are not content in looking to our newspapers for all the information that earth and human intellect can afford; but we demand from them what we might demand if a daily sheet could come to us from the world of spirits. The result, of course, is this,—that the papers do pretend that they have come daily from the world of spirits; but the oracles are very doubtful, as were those of old”
Source: The Small House at Allington
“We are not content to pass away entirely from the scenes of our delight; we would leave, if but in gratitude, a pillar and a legend.”
Source: Across the Plains
“We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.”
“We are not cowed into timidity by death and life. Were we forced to rely on our own shabby resources we would be pitiful people in deed. But the awareness of Christ's present risenness persuades us that we are buoyed up and carried on by a life greater than our own.”
“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”
“We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.”
“We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.”
“We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.”
“We are not creatures, we are creators.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?”
Source: Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles
“We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.”
“We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.”
“We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.”
“We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].”
“We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.”
“We are not defined by our mistakes, but by our ability not to repeat them.
Christie Christie; The Sadistic Narcissistic; To Love a Ghost”
“We are not defined by our mistakes, but by what we do after we've learned from them.”
Source: White Bird
“We are not defined by our things. It´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- It´s not where we live- but how we live that defines us. It´s our actions that are remembered long after we are gone.”
“We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.”
Source: sTORI Telling
“We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them. Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike”
Source: Ash Princess
“We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them,” she says quietly, eyes never leaving mine. “Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.”
Source: Ash Princess
“We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.”
“We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.”
“We are not designed to carry around blame or shame.”
Source: Waiting to Live
“We are not designed to think on the negative or take ownership of it.”
Source: Waiting to Live
“We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.”
“We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.”
“We are not different in our humanity, yet we are unique as humans.”
Source: Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions
“We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.”