W Quotes
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“We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.”
“We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.”
“We are violently propelled into the world with blood and pain and few of us will die with the dignity for which we hope and for which some pray. Whether we choose to think of life as an impending happiness broken only by inevitable grief and disappointments, or as the proverbial vale of tears with brief interludes of joy, the pain will come, except to those few whose deadened sensibilities made them apparently impervious to either joy or sorrow.”
Source: The Private Patient
“We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is.”
Source: The poetical works of Leigh Hunt
“We are visitors,
Busy in claiming it ours—
In museum of art.”
Source: Cherry Blossoms: A Haiku Poetry Book
“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.”
Source: My Tibet
“We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.”
“We are visual creatures. When you doodle an image that captures the essence of an idea, you not only remember it, but you also help other people understand and act on it - which is generally the point of meetings in the first place.”
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
That’s what I want—to hear you erupting. You young Mount St. Helenses who don’t know the power in you—I want to hear you. I want to listen to you talking to each other and to us all: whether you’re writing an article or a poem or a letter or teaching a class or talking with friends or reading a novel or making a speech or proposing a law or giving a judgment or singing the baby to sleep or discussing the fate of nations, I want to hear you. Speak with a woman’s tongue.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“We are voyagers, discoverers
of the not-known,
the unrecorded;
we have no map;
possibly we will reach haven,
heaven.”
Source: Trilogy
“We are vulnerable,because of being good, good food, comfort zone, quit all these nonsense and see life will be much more spectacular!!!”
“We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.”
“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.”
“we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”
Source: No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
“We are waiting for Donald Trump`s big immigration speech. There are lots of unanswered questions that remain about where exactly Trump stands on deportation forces, on what to do with the millions of immigrants who are here illegally now, and where he stands on the question of birthright citizenship.”
“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”
“We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.”
“We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.”
Source: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“We are walking along the path to extinction.”
“We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
“We are walking on the sweat-drenched lanes of our ancestors.”
“We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.”
Source: The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms, a Collection of Illustrative Extracts from the Whole Range of Literature, a Series of Homiletical Hints Upon Almost Every Verse, and Lists of Writers Upon Each Psalm. Ps. 1-26. I
“We are warriors of Allah.”
“You are thugs with Korans.”
Source: The Blind Man's Garden
“We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn’t do this. We mustn’t play Hot Potato with our pain. Let’s absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let’s inhale it, let’s digest it, let’s process it into fuel.”
Source: Women Talking
“We are watching as human beings are being encountered by God in unexpected ways, and we are waiting to discover how we might be able to join that drama by saying yes to God.”
Source: Youth Beyond the Developmental Lens: Being over Becoming
“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?”
“We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.”
“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.”
Source: The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
“We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.”
“We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.”
“We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”
“We are way less often deceived by looks than we are by the act of looking.”
“We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.”
“We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us.”
Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition
“We are weak, please let us in. We're week, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry.”
“We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.”
“We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.”
Source: Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland
“We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.”
Source: Intimate Journals
“We are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life often come to us through some form of extreme hardship.”
Source: Living an Extraordinary Life
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.”
Source: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
“We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.”
“We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.”
“We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what was actually said to see if that indeed was in fact Saddam Hussein.”
“We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.”
“We are well,' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.'
'It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.”
Source: Efuru
“We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.”
“We are well to work.”
“We are well-placed internationally right now and this government has been very clear in stating that our continued concern and vision for this country is to see that long-term economic growth and prosperity, build on the track record of one million net new jobs. These are things Canadians want -- to have steady hands on the tiller and that's what's been done today.”