W Quotes
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“We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956
“We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us, whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas.”
Source: George Allen: A Senator Speaks Out on Liberty, Opportunity, and Security
“We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.”
“We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.”
“We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.”
Source: My Life in France
“We are so blessed, we get hundreds of emails a day that say, “John, I’ve worked this plan for one year and I can really see my growth.” So what I would love is for readers to do that for a year and then email me.”
“We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply ‘stop’.”
Source: Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4
“We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.”
“We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.”
“We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.”
“We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.”
“We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.”
“We are so busy teaching small things about life to children that we forget to learn big things from them.”
Source: Wanted Back-Bencher and Last-Ranker Teacher
“We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.”
Source: Called of God: Extracts from My Utmost for His Highest on the Missionary Call
“We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.”
“We are so caught up in our greed, egos and bickering that we have forgotten that it is us who is a visitor to this home of ours.
You should always respect another person's home and faith.”
“We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.”
Source: River of the Sun
“We are so conceited and so unproud.”
Source: Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.”
“We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.”
“We are so considerate of the minute constitutional rights and even of the political feelings and influence of people whom we have every reason to anticipate with preventive action!... The Japanese in California should be under armed guard to the last man and woman and to hell with habeas corpus until the danger is over.”
“We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don”
“We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella
“We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.”
“We are so consumed with wanting this or that or are wanting to solve our problems, that we fail to see Life’s impermanence. Most of the time, we are not living, we are merely existing; cowering in fear and insecurity. We are not present in the now. The now is the ultimate, and only, reality. Unless we are celebrating Life in the present, unless we are living fully with what is, we will never be happy!”
“We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship...Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
“We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.”
Source: White Teeth: A Novel
“We are so crazy because of our brains (thoughts). Only we are want live extra ordinary lifestyle, only we necessary to know builder of universe, only we need the definition and mathematical theory of universe formation (reason of big bang), only we need peace and also, we need power for control the universe etc. Other way we think global warming, bad society, culture, crime, politics, bad relationship, unsafe life, not satisfaction etc. But other animals are also living life with joyful in same universe. Nothing or Everything cannot be created or destroy, why we think a lot? let’s go”
“We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.”
“We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?”
“We are so divided, and we recognize that we're divided, that we're looking for ways to come together.”
“We are so engrossed with the objects,
or appearances revealed by the light,
that we pay no attention to the light.”
Source: Day by Day with Bhagavan: From a Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar, Covering March 16, 1945 to January 4, 1947
“We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us.”
“We are so excited for what's next. I think that's what I love most about it, the energy and the excitement that comes from that.”
“We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.”
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher to deny phenomena simply because they are inexplicable at the present state of our knowledge. The more difficult it is to acknowledge their existence, the greater the care with which we must study these phenomena.”
“We are so fascinated by the complexity and beauty of the various forms in nature, that we have been led away from the formless dimension of Consciousness that lies at our very center. When you look at a person, you see many differences in their unique form, and often we compare, contrast, and judge one another because of the forms that we inhabit. But if you look beyond the various qualities and characteristics of form, and look another person in the eyes, you see a Being, and it is this Being that lies beneath the surface of form that connects us all. That is why the eyes are often referred to as the gateway to the soul, because they allow us to see and feel the presence of another Being, and realize our oneness.”
Source: The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
“We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.”
“We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.”
“We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.”
“We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.”
“We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.”
“We are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.”
“We are so good together when we're not talking about what counts. And my life counts. Blake, my life is so important to me."
"I know that."
"Do you? Because he's in there having a pint on his own and I don't think you're the slightest bit interested in him. You haven't asked one question about me since I've seen you, not one."
He frowned while he thought about it.
"That might be ok for someone else. It was ok for me for a while, but not now.”
Source: The Time of My Life
“We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.”
Source: From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place
“We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.”
“We are so hard on ourselves, it is unbelievable sometimes. The things we say to ourselves or think about when we look in the mirror are so cruel. We have to look at the power we do have and use it to overcome that voice of insecurity.”
“We are so immersed in an acclimated to the experience of our fast-paced, digital lives that it is challenging to gain a sense of the traumas subtly embedding each day.”
Source: The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships