W Quotes
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“We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.”
“We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.”
Source: An Experiment in Criticism
“We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a moment of joy, even a sense of worth?”
“We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.”
Source: The Origin Of The Universe: Science Masters Series
“We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.”
“We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely”
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
Was it better to be with Tereza or to remain alone?
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
“We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Was it better to be with Tereza or to remain alone? There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.”
“We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?”
“We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.”
“We can never leave this place," my mother told her. "It would hurt too much.”
Source: We Can Never Leave This Place
“We can never leaves this places," my mother told her. "It would hurt to much.”
Source: We Can Never Leave This Place
“We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.”
“We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.”
Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda
“We can never make anyone do anything against their will without enormous consequences.”
“We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.”
“We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.”
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
“We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace. Without inner peace it is impossible to achieve world peace, external peace. Weapons themselves do not act. They have not come out of the blue. Man has made them. But even given those weapons, those terrible weapons, they cannot act by themselves. As long as they are left alone in storage they cannot do any harm. A human being must use them. Someone must push the button. Satan, the evil powers, cannot push that button. Human beings must do it.”
“We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature.”
“We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.”
“We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.”
“We can never reach a stage where we can say, “I know everything, and I have nothing more left to learn.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.”
“We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.”
Source: First Things First
“We can never reflect too much on God's grace.”
“We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.”
“We can never right the wrongs of the past.”
“We can never see the world other than incompletely: deliberately to see it as incomplete is to create an artistic aspect.”
Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation
“We can never show enough reverence, nor ever worship the Eucharist with adequately heartfelt veneration. That is why throughout the ages it has been the custom in the Church to receive the Holy Eucharist kneeling. We should receive the Holy Eucharist prostrate and not standing. Are we the equals of Our Lord Jesus Christ? Is it not He who will come upon the clouds of heaven to be our Judge? When we see Our Lord Jesus Christ, shall we not do as did the Apostles on Thabor when they prostrated themselves on the ground in terror and wonder at the greatness and splendor of Our Lord Jesus Christ? Let us keep in our hearts and souls that spirit of worship, that spirit of profound reverence for Him who created us, for Him who redeemed us, for Him who died on the Cross for our sins.”
Source: The Mass of All Time
“We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!”
“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”
Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion
“We can never stop learning. Learning is the greatest need of the human being, who never gets fed up with the art of learning.”
“We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those tales that evolve endlessly into other tales, stories have no end. They are hardly ever the stories you know, the official ones, in which wishes are made formal, then legislated and enforced as matters of life or death. They are more often the stories we didn’t hear, or wouldn’t believe, told by the person we ignored, the house that was razed, the choir of dry bones. The scholars of Heaven read and study the vast collection of ashes, books from the torched libraries.”
Source: The Book of Heaven
“We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.”
“We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.”
“We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“We can never truly or completely know or feel what someone else thinks. This is why we must leave the judging to the only One who can know another person’s heart.”
“We can never truly see into the hearts of others. When people get lost in their own worries, they can be blind to the feelings of those most important to them.”
Source: Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades
“We can never truly understand the people we hate; we can never truly hate the people we understand.”
“We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We can never understand the true meaning of what we have never experienced; Self-realization comes from experience, not words.”
“We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.”
Source: Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)
“We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart.”
Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around
“We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity.”
“We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.”
Source: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals