W Quotes
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“We are not silt at the bottom of a river. We are the water that is flowing. There is no way they can confine us.”
“We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.”
“We are not simply intellectual creatures. We wish to make love, to enjoy a gourmet dinner, to jog in the park, to cheer lustily at a ball game, to engage in spirited conversation with our friends, to play bridge or tennis, travel to exotic places, struggle with others to build a better world, and to enjoy the arts. The arts are so vital because they help to make life worth living. Music, poetry, literature, paintings, dance, and the theater are among our richest joys...The fine arts contribute immeasurably to the good life and that is why we cherish them.”
“We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.”
“We are not slaves of the market. Our human life has a greater meaning than making money, making profit, and working for the market or for multinational corporations.”
“We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.”
“We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.”
“We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.”
“We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science”
“We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart." Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel.”
Source: Wings of Hope
“We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.”
Source: Essays and aphorisms
“We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.”
“We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.”
“We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.”
“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.”
“We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.”
Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”
“We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973
“We are not strangers in this journey of life…We are connected to each other through this mysterious field of love.”
Source: Awakening Inner Guru
“We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.”
Source: Once Upon A Lie
“We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”
Source: Thirteen Moons: A Novel
“We are not subjected to Death, Murder, Killing, Tragedy, Agony nor Miseries of Hells", not Bone folded Fools". We fold , Unfold and Stretches .”
“We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”
“We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.”
Source: Physics and microphysics
“We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.”
“We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.”
Source: Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
“We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.”
“We are not supposed to choose the easy solutions. We will no longer accept that our lives be blanketed with the doctrines of oppression and persecution. We say no to the growing sense of gloom floating in the air. Now is the time to hope for a beam of light on the horizon.
So, let's roll up our sleeves and rekindle our commitment to a peace built on justice and freedom.”
“We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth.”
Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence. Selected Prose 1966-1978
“We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.”
“We are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other, whether he admits it to himself or not.”
Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
“We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.”
“We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)
“We are not sure to what extent Saddam's [Hussein ] own people were conveying an incorrect picture to him. But this body of evidence was believed not only by President George W. Bush. President Bill Clinton used that same body of intelligence before bombing Iraq in 1998.”
“We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.”
“We are not sure what we will become, only what we want to and don’t want to. We often become what we never thought we could, then we become fine with that.”
“We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.”
Source: Asger Jorn
“We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?”
“We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences.”
“We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some of our greatest moments are some of our most difficult.”
“We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.”
“We are not taught to fear our politicians, who can debase our currency, throw us in prison and send us to war - but rather we are taught to fear each other. We are taught to imagine that the real predators in this world are not those who control prison cells, national debts and nuclear weapons, but rather our fellow citizens, who in the absence of brutal control would surely tear us apart!”
“We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.”
“We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.”
“We are not that busy; we are just distracted.”
Source: The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential
“We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.”