W Quotes
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“We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.”
Source: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
“We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them.
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Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.”
“We by art unteach what Nature taught.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume IX: Plays: The Indian Emperour, Secret Love, Sir Martin Mar-all
“We, by our very human and physical natures, permit the Spirit World to Exist! We emanate from our bodies this Spirit World. This reciprocal operation of the cosmos is very important to remember in your magickal workings.”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.”
“We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.”
Source: Dub Steps
“We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.”
“We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.”
“We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.”
“We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.”
Source: Christopher Morley's Philadelphia
“We call a civilized world when all its inhabitants live in peace, harmony, and happiness, lovingly sharing all the resources of the planet. Therefore, there is no hunger, no wars, no catastrophes ...”
Source: The Extraterrestrial Girl
“We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.”
“We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.”
Source: On Growth and Form
“We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.”
“We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.”
Source: WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...
“We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.”
“We call everything 'trauma' now. We call everything 'toxic.' Someone didn't text you back fast enough? They’re toxic. You had a mildly unpleasant conversation with your boss? You’re traumatized. You are stealing the valor of the damned! You are hijacking the vocabulary of the genuinely broken, the people who have survived actual nightmares. People who have looked the absolute worst of humanity in the face and had to figure out how to keep breathing. And you’re using their vocabulary to describe a mild inconvenience? It makes me sick. It’s an insult to the truly ruined.”
Source: Notes From Exile: The "Manual for the Broken”
“We call first truths those we discover after all the others.”
“We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.”
“We call for a green New Deal, like the New Deal that got us out of the Great Depression, but in this case focusing on green jobs to create 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, which is exactly what the science calls for.”
“We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.”
“We call for a weapons embargo.”
“We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law and human rights - not based on these policies of regime change and economic and military domination.”
“We call for an end to the killing of one another, and we denounce the violence and fanaticism that threatens life. The victory of the resurrection must be experienced as a victory of life, of brotherhood, of the future, of hope.”
“We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.”
“We call for healthcare as a human right through Medicare for all.”
“We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.”
“We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.”
“We call for, actually, a weapons embargo to the Middle East, which we can lead since we are supplying the majority of weapons which, in fact, then find their way into all parties on all sides.”
“We call for, on the other hand - how do you deal with ISIS [Islamic State], of course, is the question that comes up immediately, ISIS and other terrorist groups.”
“We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.”
Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“We call him Felix. Doesn't hold with titles, do you, Viscount?"
"A luxury only the titled can afford, I'm sure," said Sophronia.
"Don't worry, Ria," a molasses voice whispered near her ear. "You will call me Felix, regardless."
A fan snapped down between them. "None of that! No vampire would ever be so intimate!" Lady Linette did not hold with obvious flirting.
Flirting, yes, but not obvious flirting.”
Source: Curtsies & Conspiracies
“We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.”
“We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.”
“We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.”
Source: The Life Around Us: Selected Poems on Nature
“We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.”
Source: Past and Present
“We call it ‘back home’
knowing full well
that the majority of us
may never go back.
That we may spend
but a handful of weeks
in the tropic heat
and relentless traffic,
tolerating family members
we may have convinced
ourselves to have missed,
but very few will submit
to that final pull to return.
We know our land, our soil
as back home, but for many of us
it is only the home we left back,
the one we left so far behind
to be thrust into a lifelong search
of another, of another, of another.”
“We call it climate change, but it’s not the climate that’s failing. It’s us—our greed, our silence, our memory. The planet is not in crisis. We are.”
“We call it drunk philosophy. You have a few beers and you become a lot smarter.”
“We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.”
“We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.”
“We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we get a big screen. They start a business and we start planning our articles of incorporation and the first stock release. And while we're so busy keeping up, we ignore our soul, the inner voice, that's telling us that it really wants to teach children to read. While it helps to identify with each other, we're not the same. So why compare ourselves on the basis of material things? Are you walking a path with heart in your own life, regardless of what others have?”
Source: More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations
“We call it 'righteous indignation' as a way to justify our anger, but brain-wise and Love-wise, it’s really 'debilitating indignation.'
Anger always weakens us.”
Source: BIG: the practice of joy
“We call it song, but it’s more than that. It’s not just a harmony and melody and a rhythm vocalized together. Our song…encompasses the deepest parts of us. Losing it isn’t just deciding you’d rather take up blade smithing. Losing it means losing what connects you to everything and everyone else. And if it vanishes, until it’s found again, we’re…handicapped.”
Source: Song of the Abyss
“We call it the 'Rule of Crappy People'. Bad managers hire very, very bad employees, because they're threatened by anybody who is anywhere near as good as they are.”
“We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.”
“We call it your area of destiny. We urge people to build their careers at that intersection of what they're uniquely good at ... and what you love to do.”
“We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.”
“We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.”
“We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.”
Source: Scientific Christian Mental Practice