W Quotes
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“We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.”
Source: Reasons of the heart
“We are unequivocally valued in the sight of God as men, women, and children – every culture, every skin colour, every demographic, rich and poor, every individual preference. That is the starting point. Not the endpoint. The beginning of creating a harmonious and flourishing world is to start from the basis of equal value. One world. One people. Different expressions. All loved. All valued.”
Source: Writing: A Spiritual Voice
“We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.”
“We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!”
“We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get a hundred percent of people health care while I was president. We didn't quite achieve that, but we were able to get 20 million people health care who didn't have it before. And obviously some of the progress we made is now imperiled because there's still a significant debate taking place in the United States. For those 20 million people, their lives have been better.”
“we are unique individuals with unique experiences”
Source: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships
“We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.”
Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
“We are unique. Chimpanzees are unique. Dogs are unique. But we humans are just not as different as we used to think.”
“We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“We are united in a wait-and-see approach.”
“We are United States Marines, and for two and a quarter centuries we have defined the standards of courage, esprit, and military prowess.”
“We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.”
“We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.”
Source: Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision: A Sourcebook
“We are uniting in condemning the comments of Donald Trump on Muslims and women.”
“We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we persist in self-centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.”
Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling.”
“We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.”
“We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.”
“We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy.”
Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
“We are unreasonable reasonable people. Measured of the excess. We frequent madness and chaos without quite melting into it. A hunger for life always ends up bringing us back to the light.”
Source: L'inconnue de la Seine
“We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.”
Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius
“We are unselfish and we trust each other”
“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
Source: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story
“We are unutterably alone, essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important to us.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.”
Source: Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends
“We are up to the hilt advocates for peace, and we earnestly war against war. I wish that Christian men would insist more and more on the unrighteousness of war, believing that Christianity means no sword, no cannon, no bloodshed, and that, if a nation is driven to fight in its own defence, Christianity stands by to weep and to intervene as soon as possible, and not to join in the cruel shouts which celebrate an enemy’s slaughter. . . . Today, then, my brethren, I beg you to join with me in seeking renewal.”
“We are upgrading UEX to a Buy rating; new CEO Roger Lemaitre changes everything.”
“We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.”
“We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.”
Source: Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt
“We are used to being sold out by people we elect.”
“We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.”
“We are used to determining the time of our projects and events ourselves, and this is the reason why our life is full of chaos and vanity.”
“We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship.”
“We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.”
“We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.”
Source: The Other Side of a Frontier
“We are used to the thought that we’ll go to Heaven if we avoid sins or have our pastor remove them. To labor ourselves into paradise is a new and somewhat discouraging perspective.”
Source: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ - A Short Story
“We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is naturally what we expect to find on archaeological sites. It upsets our carefully structured ideas of how civilizations should behave, how they should mature and develop, when we are confronted by a case like Göbekli Tepe that starts out perfect at the beginning and then slowly devolves until it is just a pale shadow of its former self.”
Source: Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization
“We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.”
“We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.”
“We are using all of our brain, all of the time; all of it is in use. However, you could probably argue that we don't use it effectively. Some of us are not trained to use our brains to their full potential. But definitely, all of it is there.”
“We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.”
“We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.”
“We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.”
Source: 77 Dream Songs: Poems
“We are using the food as a doorway to understanding the rest of our lives.”
“We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is carried on. But, it is wearing you out.That is why I say the tragedy that is facing mankind is not AIDS or cancer, but Alzthiemer's disease.”
“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”
“We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld