W Quotes
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“We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities”
“We are surrounded by miracles too common to notice. Think of the intricate patterns on a butterfly’s wing... or the way a seed split open becomes a tree. We often overlook these marvels because we are distracted by busier, louder things. ... Yet the capacity for wonder lives inside us; we just need to look closely”
“We are Surrounded by Paradoxes and Questions!”
“We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.”
“We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)
“We are surrounded by story.”
“We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.”
Source: Collected Poems
“We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lord’s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us”
“We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.”
“We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.”
“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.”
“We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.”
“We are survivors. We shall survive again and we shall be the strongest, most gentle people on this earth.”
“We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.”
“We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.”
“We are symbolic. We are driving to the edge of the city and talking in vague-yet-resolute certainties about our dreams and our futures. We are leaving certain things in the medicine cabinet. We are falling in love.”
Source: Gray
“We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“We are synonyms but not the same.”
“We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.”
Source: The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment
“We are taken through the pursuit of the American dream, the establishment of the American family, and a smattering of suspense and intrigue.”
“We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!”
“We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.”
“We are taking additional measures to ensure security and stability in Tal Afar and to restore its people's rights”
“We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.”
“We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.”
“We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state”
“We are taking way more out of the ocean than the ocean can replenish.”
“We are talking about a bunch of mindless bottom feeders who is general ignorance of a way of life is tempered only by their indifference to human suffering, we are all agreed on that?"
"Is this the politicians all the killers?"
"good point, but I meant the killers.”
Source: London Rules
“We are talking about a major change in reality that has to come about, ... We are not idiots. If it turns out that this situation where there is no partner (in peace) remains the same, then we will know what to do.”
“We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.”
“We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's power. Of course not everyone is instinctively against this illusion-weaving power, and many even welcome it. Tragically, the innocent who understand little about the complexity of the monetary system suffer the most, while those who are in the know reap great profit whether the market is going up or down.”
“We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be a guaranteed U.S. renewable energy market in which they can compete. Otherwise, they will create the next generation of green companies and green jobs in Asia, not here.”
“We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.”
“We are talking about creating a legal framework to regulate the production, transit and consumption of drugs.”
“We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.”
“We are talking about mutated women, the result of cruel genetic experiments performed by fashion designers so lacking in any sense of human decency that they think nothing of putting their initials on your eyeglass lenses. The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. If a normal woman puts on clothing designed for these unfortunate people, she is quite naturally going to look like Revenge of the Pork Person.”
“We are talking about one of the greatest threats of all. But people can stand up to the school nurse; you can stand up to the teacher; you can stand up to the principal; you can stand up to them with the facts and the right books.”
“We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.”
“We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.”
Source: A Death in the Family
“We are talking only to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. All the disasters that are happening now are a consequence of that spiritual 'autism.'”
Source: Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth
“We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.”
“We are tamed animals (some with kind, some with cruel, masters) and should probably starve if we got out of our cage. That is one horn of the dilemma. But in an increasingly planned society, how much of what I value can survive? That is the other horn.”
Source: Some Everyday Thoughts
“We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.”
“We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?”
“We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.”
“We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.”
“We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.”
Source: The Portable Emerson
“We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.”
“We are taught from girlhood to be nice and to protect other people's feelings, even at the expense of our own well-being. We learn, by example, that we are supposed to cater to everyone else around us. We cater to the men in our lives. We cater to our children. We cater to our friends. We cater to strangers. Does everyone have what they need? Is everyone feeling good and doing great? I address the concerns of others without even thinking, as automatically as a reflex, but when it comes to taking care of myself I have to pause and remember to ask myself, *Wait, do I have everything I need? Am I feeling good and doing great?*”
Source: Hold On, But Don't Hold Still
“We are taught from the time we are born about how to behave, how to look and how to act. Comply and do not question! The path is already set for you, as long as you stay on it you will make it.”
Source: Between the Mountains and the Sea