W Quotes
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“We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.”
Source: Killosophy
“We are often told to just be ourselves but what does that really mean?...There is no 'just' in any of these statements, because it is hard. I think we are often told how to be; how to behave, how to look, what to believe, and there is no part of our lives that isn't put under scrutiny in this way. We all feel the pressure to conform. Sometimes it can be really challenging to be yourself, especially when it is at odds with the mainstream. I always showed up, but for a time, I masked how I really felt and what was important to me. I felt so stifled, it was as if I had chains wrapped around me. Looking back, I wish I could've been myself unconditionally from the get-go, but I was making decisions based on fear.”
Source: Coming Up for Air
“We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.”
“We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.”
“We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.”
“We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.”
Source: Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
“We are often way too busy. Take the time to rest. Sleep when you should. Take a day to relax from time to time. Some people make this too high of a priority… some not so all.”
“We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the future.”
“We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.”
“We are old, and cunning, and enjoy using words like blades and claws. Every word from your mouth, every turn of phrase, will be judged- and possibly used against you.' As if to soften the warning, she added. 'Be on your guard, Lady.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“We are old; you cannot understand that, that you will or can ever reach a time when you can bear so much and no more; that nothing else is worth the bearing; that you not only cannot, you will not; that nothing is worth anything but peace, peace, peace, even with bereavement and grief—nothing!”
“We are on a collision course with Earth's immunity system resulting from what Ai calls "poisoning the common ground." Based on projections, humans have approximately 300 years before this immune system is activated. Failure to make changes during the defined window of opportunity means that 97% of humanity will die off, and survivors will be reduced to eating mushrooms and mealworms. Gated communities throughout the world will also fall.”
“We are on a journey of becoming that which we already are. That is the impossible paradox of our lives.”
“We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.”
Source: The Orthodox Way
“We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.”
Source: Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation : A Dialogue With the Creator of Star Trek
“We are on a mission for God.”
“We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .”
“We are on a path of enlightenment. We must discover the light within us.”
“We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.”
“We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into bed more readily and a lot more naturally than they once did, what happens there often seems less important.”
Source: Talking woman
“We are on a very rich emotional and physical journey on this planet.”
“We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.”
“We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.”
“We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world.”
Source: Thrust in the sickle and reap
“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like the movement of a terrible glacier or the traversing of the desert; and those, on the contrary, whom others weary, tire, bore, silently torture, whom isolation calms and bathes in the repose of independency, and plunges into the humors of their own thoughts. In fine, there is here a normal, physical phenomenon. Some are constituted to live a life outside of themselves, others, to live a life within themselves. As for me, my exterior associations are abruptly and painfully short-lived, and, as they reach their limits, I experience in my whole body and in my whole intelligence an intolerable uneasiness.”
“We are on God's side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It's a war between God and the devil.”
“We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.”
“We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.”
“We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. We should not cling to crude down to the last drop – we should leave oil before it leaves us. That means new approaches must be found soon..... The really important thing is that even though we are not yet running out of oil, we are running out of time.”
“We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.”
“We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.”
“We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.”
“We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."”
“We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and devils; we are matter, and they tell us of spirit; we have five senses whereby to admit truths, and a reasoning faculty by which to build our belief upon them; and they tell us of dreams dreamed thousands of years ago, which our experience flatly contradicts.”
Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789
“We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not nor will we ever monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.”
“We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.”
“We are on the planet to... wrap our consciousness around the divine treasure within us.”
“We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.”
“We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.”
“We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.”
“We are on the precipice of history… a moment where prospects that seemed unattainable are more possible than ever before. Unions, Equality, and Kamala: Why This Election Matters to Me (Medium Story)”
“We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. We are in danger of seeing philosophers who doubt the law of gravity as being a mere fancy of their own. Scoffers of old time were too proud to be convinced; but these are too humble to be convinced.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.”
“We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business.”