W Quotes
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“We can do this the easy way,' Oblivious snarled. 'Or the hard way.' 'What's the easy way?' 'You leave immediately.' 'And what's the hard way?' 'We make you leave.' Skulduggery's head tilted. 'What was the easy way again?”
“We can do what we ought to do, only by great grace that comes from God.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.”
“We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.”
Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923
“We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.”
Source: The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...
“We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.”
“We can doubt the Lord when we go through tough times, but you know that He's always got your best interest at heart.”
“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964
“We can dream a lot faster than what's possible.”
“We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.”
“We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.”
“We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!”
“We can drive the change now, or wait to be driven by it later.”
“We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.”
“We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.”
“We can, each of us, be likened to houses made entirely of colorfully stained-glass. They sparkle and shine when the sun is on them, however when the darkness sets in, their greatest beauty is revealed only by a Light from within.”
“We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life's situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.”
“We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.”
“We can easily be depleted from life and if we are truly lucky, we have that one friend who can replenish our love and peace. In our moment of revival, we can use that surrogate strength to create more... May we continue to make more.”
“We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.”
Source: Youth and Life
“We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.”
Source: Youth and Life
“We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.”
“We can easily create a welfare state that accepts the fact of a permanent American underclass, one where family dysfunction, childhood trauma, cultural segregation, and hopelessness coexist with some basic measure of subsistence. Or we can do something considerably more difficult: reject the notion of a permanent American underclass.”
Source: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
“We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.”
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
“We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“We can eat meat, it tastes good, but it’s very costly considering the land we have to use to produce the plants needed to feed the animals. And then we have a huge consumption of water for every kilogram of meat (produced), which is around ten times higher than for the plant.”
“We can either ask for help or create solutions to the problems we face; I chose to create solutions.”
“We can either be static or we can move towards a higher goal and eventually soar into the portals of heaven while we are alive. The choice is ours!”
“We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.”
“We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.”
Source: The Relaxation Response
“We can either change the future or change ourselves to become the future.”
“We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.”
“We can either fear the storm because we’re attempting to HOLD ON to the things that it’s blowing away or we can trust the storm because it’s showing us how to LET GO of the things that don’t serve us. Nothing REAL can be lost.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.”
“We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible.”
“We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.”
Source: Found Money
“We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?”
Source: Future Primitive Revisited
“We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)”
“We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.”
“We can either see the storm as something that has come to destroy us or something that has come to wash away anything that we carry inside ourselves that’s unreal.”
Source: Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace
“We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.”
“We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.”
“We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.”
“We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.”
“We can enchant you to run around on all fours, barking like a dog. We can curse you to wither away for want of a song you'll never hear again or a kind word from my lips. We're not mortal. We will break you. You're a fragile little thing; we'd hardly need to try. Give up.'
'Never,' I say.
He smiles, smug. 'Never? Never is like forever- too big for mortals to comprehend.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)”
“We can end this before anyone gets hurt." William held his hands out to sides as if to show her he was unarmed. "You don't want to hurt people, do you? You will if you don't come away with me. You know that."
"I'm not bad," Daisha whispered.
"I believe you." He held out a hand to her. He curled his fingers toward him in a beckoning gesture. "You can do the right thing here. Just come with me. We'll go meet some people who can help us."
"Her. The new Graveminder."
"No, not her. You and I can fix this all on our own.”
Source: Graveminder