W Quotes
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“We can assume that by now the Rasu have captured and analyzed zettabytes of government data from Namino. There’s zero chance they don’t possess the locations of every Dominion world. Why haven’t they attacked us somewhere else yet?”
An uneasy silence answered Maris. Nika was reluctant to break it, but hiding from the truth did them no good. “Because the Rasu don’t fear us.”
Dashiel frowned at her. “But we destroyed their entire presence in this galaxy.”
“We did. And by now, they realize that we accomplished it using smoke and mirrors and are unlikely to be able to replicate the feat anytime soon. They don’t fear us, which means they can afford to take their time, methodically dismantling our civilization block by block, then planet by planet.”
Lance arched an eyebrow. “Then we need to make them fear us again.”
Source: Inversion
“We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.”
“We can assume that those who ‘have it all’ and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to be unthankful.”
“We can ast for comfort and hope and patience and courage . . . and we’ll git what we ast for. They ain’t no gar’ntee thet we ain’t go’n have no troubles and ain’t go’n die. But shore as frogs croak and cows bellow, God’ll forgive us if’n we ast Him to.”
“We can at least go backstage where it’s cool and get rest, but the fans have to stay and watch in the heat. It’s not me mom…it’s the fans who have it hard.”
“We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.”
“We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.”
“We can attribute our success definitively to our failures and disappointments governed by our persistence and patience.”
“We can awaken in people feelings like: love, hate, despair ... those depend on them; but pity and disappointment, only depend on ourselves ...”
“We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.”
“We can be aggressive at the right time with the right stakes when it comes to price. But I think for us, it starts and ends with people. And generally speaking, venture investors will say that. Right? That people are very important. It is all about the people. But at Anthemis, it is beyond "all about the people." Because it's almost exclusively about the people. We've been operating this way for a while.”
“We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.”
“We can be anybody we wanna be.”
“We can be anywhere, so long as we are helping others and caring for them. This is probably the one source of stability in our lives that we can truly depend on, and so in the end we are never really out of place.”
“We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“We can be as patient as a fallow field because we know there are gifts promised by a Giver who can be trusted.”
Source: Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
“We can be assured that each step deeper into the Lord's Presence will reveal areas in our hearts which need to be cleansed. Do not be afraid. When the Spirit shows you areas of sin, it is not to condemn you, but to cleanse you.”
Source: When The Many Are One: How to Lay Aside our Differences and Come Together as the House of God
“We can be assured that if God has called us to something, he goes with us. He jumps off the boat beside us... He goes to the depths of his ocean with us.”
Source: If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“We can be beacons of light”
Source: Love is the Answer God is the Cure
“We can be beautiful and feel beautiful about who we are everyday.”
“We can be beautiful at all ages. Feminine beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, ways.”
“We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.”
“We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.”
“We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“We can be bought, but we cant be bored.”
“We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.”
“We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.”
“We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may help us to transcend our own narrow cultural horizon.”
“We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives.”
“We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.”
“We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.”
“We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even when we gain insight into these things, we rarely behave differently in the future. Despite our overt resolve, we are still creatures of habit.”
“We can be content in who God is, but that doesn’t mean we will be content in our singleness.”
Source: Is Being Single a Gift?: Trusting God While Unpacking Hard Truths on Singleness
“We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.”
“We can be convicted of sin—we can pray and confess our sin—we can repent—but the real test is our willingness to obey.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.”
“We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.”
“We can be destroyed so readily because we are willing to destroy so readily.”
“We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.”
“We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.”
“We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.”
“We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world.”
“We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.”
Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.”
“We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.”
“We can be free only through the application of reason, valuing our togetherness and cultivating our minds to find inspiration in everything that we undertake.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“We can be fully human without being in complete control of our world.”
Source: Team Human
“We can be happy with less and miserable with more.”
Source: Happiness Power: How to Unleash Your Power and Live a More Joyful Life
“We can be heroes just for one day”