W Quotes
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“We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars.”
Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
“We can make America a clean-energy super-power and create good-paying jobs in the process.”
“We can make America what America must become.”
“We can make an impression on this world if the world doesn't make too much impression on us.”
“We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.”
“We can make entire worlds and literally rewrite history through the magic of writing. We have the power to occupy the mind and I appreciate the gravity of that situation, you should also.”
Source: Take a look inside of me.: Volume 1
“We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.”
“We can make fun of the virus, but we can't make fun of the people infected by the virus.”
“We can make 'intelligent' missiles that can make war on one particular building hundreds of miles away, but we don't have an equivalent one that can make peace. Might that be because we have worshipped the gods of war, but have forgotten about worshipping the prince of peace? We can put a few men on the moon, but the few men who were standing between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda in 1994 had to be withdrawn for lack of funds and political will. Might that be because we have worshipped the gods of technology, the gods who boost our own national security--the gods we have wanted, i other words--and have forgotten the God who asked Cain, 'Where is Abel your brother?”
Source: For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church
“We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.”
“We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy
“We can make mistakes about what we ought to do, and these are not the same as making bad decisions about what to do.”
“We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.”
“We can make our earth a heaven or a hell based on the choices that we make.”
“We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.”
“We can make our language duller; we cannot make it less metaphorical. We can make the pictures more prosaic; we cannot be less pictorial.”
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”
Source: The Celtic Twilight
“We can make our mistakes and love each other despite how broken we are, how much we have hurt each other. We can love each other through the pain, because we a fighters, that is simply our nature. To keep fighting, no matter what. What does it matter if we do not fight for an honourable cause? You will be the death of me, and I you, and that is as honourable a death as any. I will die in your worship and you will die in mine.”
“We can make our own normal. We can throw out all the rules and write our own. We can build our lives from the inside out. We can stop asking what the world wants from us and instead ask ourselves what we want for our world. We can stop looking at what’s in front of us long enough to discover what’s inside us. We can remember and unleash the life-changing, relationship-changing, world-changing power of our own imagination. It might take us a lifetime. Luckily, a lifetime is exactly how long we have.”
Source: Untamed
“We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.”
“We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“We can make room for more experiences of radiance, peace, and beauty; and when we do, they arrive. When we make an intention to experience peace, when we value it enough to make room for it and invite it into our busy lives, it arrives bearing gifts. We make room for this guest, not by doing anything, but by just being, just allowing ourselves to rest, once and for all, in this sweet moment with no agenda, no purpose, no reason, but just to experience the moment as it is. We make room for peace and happiness by just noticing them. We notice that they are already here, and noticing them brings them more strongly into focus. Peace and happiness are always here, but they often go unnoticed.”
Source: What About Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment
“We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.”
“We can make the dream come true”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We can make the most of the Earth and benefit from its beauty, but in such a way that we respect the Earth, just as a bee respects the flower.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
“We can make the right answer sound old hat, but I guarantee this: God will surprise you. He will make you stop. You will struggle. He will bring you up short. You will hurt. He will take his time. You will grow in faith and in love. He will deeply delight you. You will find the process harder than you ever imagined--and better.”
Source: God's Grace in Your Suffering
“We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?”
Source: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
“We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."”
“We can make this a more peaceful century if we cherish non-violence and concern for others’ well-being. It is possible. If the individual is happier, his or her family is happier; if families are happy, neighborhoods and nations will be happy. By transforming ourselves we can change our human way of life and make this a century of compassion.”
“We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.”
“We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...”
Source: Eye of the Cricket
“We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.”
“We can make, to ourselves, very much stronger suggestions than anyone else can, whoever that person may be.”
“We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.”
“We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation of its measured value. One of the aims of superstring theory is to predict this quantity precisely. Any theory that could do that would be taken very seriously indeed as a potential 'Theory of Everything'.”
Source: Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits
“We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.”
“We can meet the obligations of Social security and Medicare. If we stay on the path that your party has us on, we'll be in a mountain range of debt and we're gonna face hard choices.”
“We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.”
“We can miss other things, but we will hardly miss scrolling through our Instagram or Facebook feed. Wherever your audience is, you need to be there.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“We can mistakenly think that mental health is about treating mental illness, but this is only half-baked.
Mental health is also about building good mental and emotional health, it’s about practicing mental health self-care and enhancing well-being.”
Source: Resilient learner: Thriving in College and Beyond
“We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.”
“We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.”
“We can most easily fulfill our desires when our actions are motivated by love. We expand the least effort, and we offer no resistance. We tap into the infinite organizing power of the universe to do less and accomplish everything.”
“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”
“We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.... What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.”
“We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.”
“We can navigate by looking at ant mounds.”
“We can navigate the boat, but we cannot change the course of the river. The flow waits for nobody.”
“We can navigate the boat, but we cannot change the course of the river. We can never alter the flow.”
“We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.”
Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons