W Quotes
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“We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.”
“We are not in the coffee business serving people, we are in the people business serving coffee.”
“We are not in the home finding business, although it is certainly true that we do find homes from time to time for the kind of animals people are looking for. Our service is to provide a peaceful and painless death to animals who no one wants.”
“We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.”
“We are not in the money chasing business, we are in the risk management business”
“We are not individually much cleverer than the average animal, a heron or a mole, but the knack of our species lies in our capacity to transmit our accumulated knowledge down the generations. The slowest among us can, in a few hours, pick up ideas that it took a few rare geniuses a lifetime to acquire.
Yet what is distinctive is just how selective we are about the topics we deem it possible to educate ourselves in. Our energies are overwhelmingly directed towards material, scientific and technical subjects – and away from psychological and emotional ones. Much anxiety surrounds the question of how good the next generation will be at maths; very little around their abilities at marriage or kindness. We devote inordinate hours to learning about tectonic plates and cloud formations, and relatively few fathoming shame and rage.
The assumption is that emotional insight might be either unnecessary or in essence unteachable, lying beyond reason or method, an unreproducible phenomenon best abandoned to individual instinct and intuition. We are left to find our own path around our unfeasibly complicated minds – a move as striking (and as wise) as suggesting that each generation should rediscover the laws of physics by themselves.”
Source: The School of Life: An Emotional Education
“We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.”
“We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company.”
“We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.”
“We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.”
“We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.”
Source: The Essential Turing
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”
“We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.”
“We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.”
“We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought.”
“We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.”
Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“We are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.”
Source: Against Dryness
“We are not isolated islands, we are connected links in a chain. Each kind word, each smiling face, each good action, benefits our neighbor, nation, world. Let us pray and meditate together and we shall reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of love and vibrations of unity and harmony. Tuning our minds to the supreme consciousness, let us open our hearts and chant the words, "May everyone everywhere be happy."”
“We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise.”
“We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.”
Source: Collected Works
“We are not judged by what we do, but by what we are capable of doing.”
Source: A Man with A White Shadow
“We are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
“We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.”
Source: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
“We are not just a species, we are also a cause - the cause of community - the cause of dignity - the cause of sensibility - the cause of life, light and sanity.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10”
“We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.”
“We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.”
“We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.”
Source: The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives
“We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.”
“We are not just made of blood and bone – we are made of stories. Some of us have our stories told for us, others write their own – you wrote yours.”
“We are not just made of stardust. We are made of stories, passed hand to hand like fire in the dark.”
“We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.”
“We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.”
“We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.”
“We are not just these three-dimensional bodies walking around. Our unconscious communicates and other people pick it up and they come to our rescue, or a spirit comes to our rescue.”
“We are not just tickling the dragon’s tail; we are timing a flyby through its open jaws while it is yawning.”
Source: Angles of Attack
“We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.”
“We are not just women; we are witches. We will pull ourselves on bellies through hardship, we will crawl through pain and we will rise with rage and devour all those who stand in our way.”
Source: The Raven's Ballad
“We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.”
Source: An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London
“We are not killers,” Gideon says firmly.
“In my experience everyone is a killer.” Baz’s eyes go cold. He leans back against the wall. “Or a victim. Some people just need a little coaxing to choose a side.”
Source: Vicarious
“We are not known by our bank balances or who our parents are. It is ultimately we who have to prove ourselves. It is not important to own a particular brand of car. But we should be a brand in ourselves. Each of us is unique.”
“We are not lacking in ovservation by which the relation of language to its variable usage can be determined rather precisely. Insight into this relation and the art of applying it belongs to the spirit of the law and the secrete of governing. It is just this relation which makes classical writers. The trouble caused by confounding languages and the blind fatih in certain signs and formulas are at times coup d'état which have them in the kingdong of truth than the most powerful, freshly exhumed word-radical or the unending geealogy of a concept; coup d'état which would never enter the head of a scholarly blatherer and an eloquent journeyman, not even in his most propitious dreams.”
Source: Writings on Philosophy and Language
“We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension.”
Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
“we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.”
“We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.”
“We are not like dogs who are kind of "What am I going to eat today? Oh, there is a rabbit; I am going to go chase it."”
“We are not limited by money, but rather by
the poverty of our own dreams.”
“We are not living for working, but we should work our best for a better living.”
“We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.”