W Quotes
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“We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.”
Source: AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens - like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It's never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say?”
“We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.”
“We are UX designers, facilitating for the world, and we love to solve the problems through our craft.”
“We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.”
“We are valued wither too highly or not high enough; we are never taken at our real worth.”
“We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.”
“We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.”
“We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.”
“We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.”
“We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.”
“We are very concerned all the time with figuring out new technologies and advances in science, but really [while] our future is dependent on science and progress, it's not less dependent on the way we treat each other.”
“We are very confident that the data is showing that carbon capture and sequestration is technologically feasible and it's available. It has been successfully demonstrated and there are full-scale both conventional and unconventional coal projects with CCS that are moving forward. So there is no question that there's continued investment in this technology.”
“We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.”
“We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.”
Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions
“We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.”
“We are very encouraged that the results from our monitoring of air quality and drinking water conditions in both New York and near the Pentagon show that the public in these areas is not being exposed to excessive levels of asbestos or other harmful substances. I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink.”
“We are very excited about welcoming a new member of the family, a daughter!”
“We are very excited to re-launch the collaboration with Fred Perry. We have great appreciation for the heritage of the brand as well as their dynamism in guiding the brand towards the future. Their openness to create synergies between both our brands will bring interesting, creative results.”
“We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It's the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It's definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It's a great opportunity to have such an event.”
“We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.”
“We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.”
“We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.”
“We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.”
Source: Here Be Monsters! (1)
“We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.”
Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt
“We are very fortunate to have someone else's weapons stationed on our soil, to fight those targeted on us.”
“We are very frustrated because we have a Supreme Court that seems determined to say that the wealthier have more right to free speech than the rest of us. For example, they say you couldn't stop me from spending all the money I've saved over the last five years on Hillary's campaign if I wanted to, even though it would clearly violate the spirit of campaign finance reform.”
“We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.”
“We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS.”
“We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.”
“We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number of women in our legislative branches and obviously as head of state. We need to push on that. I hate to say this: It isn't all men's fault. I think some of it is our own attitude and approach. Some of it very healthy, that women want to make choices about their lives and how they want to spend their time, and what they value.”
“We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.”
“We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.”
“We are very keen to see that nobody gets ill-treated or abused.”
“We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.”
“We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.”
“We are very lucky to be men because women have a terrible time getting older parts. It's much more difficult.”
“We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant difference being that they have yet to master our expertise in hypocrisy, the gift of our superior intellect that enables us to slaughter one another in droves, more often than not under the auspices of an approving god!”
Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath
“We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.”
“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.”
Source: Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition
“We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.”
“We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.”
“We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .”
“We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.”
“We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.”
“We are vessels of speech, we are the repositories which harbour secrets many centuries old. The art of eloquence has no secrets for us; without us the names of kings would vanish into oblivion, we are the memory of mankind; by the spoken word we bring to life the deeds and exploits of kings.”
“We are victims of - the DNC and other institutions are victims of a cybercrime led by thugs.”