W Quotes
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“We are opinionated society. We're very happy to spout forth our own views; we're not good about listening. We have to listen to other's stories. Learn to listen to the stories of the terrorists just as we hope that they will listen to ours because very often these narratives express frustrations, fears, and anxieties that most societies can safely ignore.”
“We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day”
“We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.”
“We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.”
“We are opposing the exploitation of man by man, similarly we must oppose the exploitation of peoples by other peoples ... but today this is no longer enough ... we have to assist the peoples fighting for their independence to develop their economies, to increase their standard of living”
“We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.”
“We are optimists, until we are not.”
“We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say.”
Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
“We are ordained to work for the increase of the government of Christ”
“We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.”
“We are organic computers.
Living things, including human beings, are organic hardware and software, running programs encoded in their DNA.
Nature is one of the representations of the Universal mind.
It’s clear that nature uses genome templates to create life.”
Source: The Eye of Universe
“We are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.”
“We are organized by territories, whereas terrorists are organized into networks. States are very slow and terrorists are extremely fast. Intelligence sharing needs to expand beyond the regional and become global and not country-focused. We need to acquire speed and agility.”
“We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.”
“We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.”
Source: Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men
“We are our brains. My brain is talking to your brain; our bodies are hanging along for the ride.”
“We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us.”
“We are our children’s roadmap when they think all is lost. We have to change their direction of drowning in self-doubt (What’s wrong with me?). We have to destroy the hopeless feelings that are buried deep within our children. We, the parents, guardians, and educators have to be the wheels to put our children back on track. We are our children’s guides and we have to put them back on the road of purpose.”
“We are our choices.. That's why I am so afraid to choose.. Because more than anything else, I am afraid of facing myself..”
“We are our choices.”
“We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.”
“We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one.”
“We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one" - Tamerlan Kuzgov.”
“We are our greatest prison and our worst warden.”
“We are our memories," Dodge said. "That's all we are. That's what makes us the person we are. The sum of all our memories from the day we were born. If you took a person and replaced his set of memories with another set, he'd be a different person. He'd think, act, and feel things differently.”
“We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.”
Source: Selected poems
“We are our own aptest deceiver.”
“We are our own asteroid. Our consumption of fossil fuels has released--is releasing--a store of carbon into the atmosphere that has been accumulating for hundreds of millions of years. Corals, plankton, predators: everything in the ocean is screaming at us to stop. If we don't listen and take action right now, we could be witnesses to the death of most life on earth. We will be the cause of that death... We will have erased ourselves in a blink of geologic time.”
Source: Save the Humans
“We are our own biggest enemy. We criticize ourselves in a harsh way about everything, our looks, our weight, our careers, our failures and success, the way people treat us; the list goes on. Instead of critiquing ourselves and putting ourselves down, how about tapping ourselves on the shoulder and saying “I did goooood”. GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK.”
“We are our own biggest fan when it comes to treatment of self; our capacity for self-love is truly immeasurable.”
“WE ARE OUR OWN CREATION
How high a sinful mind can wander before it reaches heaven?
How deep a second love can run before it is forgiven?
How many lines a poet can write before being criticised?
How many lines can a painter create before being copied?
I say, there is no limit to any of these for we are still our own creation.”
“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”
“We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.”
“We are our own gods and our own demons.”
“We are our own greatest surprise.”
“We are our own tragedies.
The people we love seemingly are only endings that we prefer before the curtain falls on its own accord.”
“We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.”
“We are our own worst critics. We judge ourselves harshly and then wonder why we don’t feel confident of achieving our desired goals.”
Source: Reclaim Your Life After Trauma
“We are our own worst enemy and make no mistake we are destroying ourselves.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“We are our own worst inhibitors”
“We are our parents echoes and sometimes they don't like what they hear”
Source: Rock Paper Scissors
“We are our stories.”
“We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.”
Source: History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
“We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer, more responsible and poignantly beautiful way than before, in our infancy.”
“We are ourselves creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves. This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.”
Source: Heart Steps
“We are ourselves our happiness.”
Source: Poetical works
“We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.”
Source: Romance and reality, by L.E.L.
“We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now.”
Source: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
“We are out in the middle of nowhere, as we can see - as you can plainly see.”
“We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.”