W Quotes
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“We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.”
“We can put the mattress on the floor and I'll sleep on the box springs. That okay, princess?"
"That's okay."
"Have you seen Shrek? The cartoon?"
"No, why?"
"Because you remind me of Princess Fiona. Not quite as curvy, of course."
"Of course."
"C'mon... give me a hand? This mattress weighs a ton."
"You're right," she groaned. "What the hell is in here?"
"Generations of peasants who died of fatigue."
"Charming.”
Source: Hunting and Gathering
“We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.”
“We can put your friends in the tower,” Vidrol added, rubbing a finger along the sharp line of his jaw. “It’s only a matter of time before the Darkness tries capturing them and using them against you. If Calder fails to produce you, that’s exactly where they’ll turn next and the tower is the most secure part of the Keep.”
“And me?” I asked, my lip twitching. “Where are you going to put me?”
His eyes flashed dark green, his lids growing heavy. “On your back,” he said plainly. “On my bed. On my desk. Over my throne. You pick.”
Source: A World of Lost Words
“We can quarantine People
But
We can not quarantine Love”
“We can quarantine people
But
We can't quarantine Love”
“We can raise our voices in some brazen speech gloriously proclaiming the pablum of men as the savior of mankind. Yet, the more the speeches, the emptier the men and greater the need for the very God that the speeches decry as pablum.”
“We can rape, but we can also sing.”
“We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin.”
“We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.”
“We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.”
“We can reach a global harmony if we remove xenophobia”
“We can reach a place in life where a relationship would be nice, but our life style is already nice. If we mixed the two would they blend perfectly? We’re skeptical, that we’re reaching out to past failures? Having the strength and confidence to leave any relationship allows us to take a chance.”
“We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.”
“We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.”
Source: Touch the World Through Prayer
“We can reach the goal but it is going to take an incredible amount of time and effort”
“We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.”
“We can read every book and stare at every piece of art about the pain of love, but we never know how much it hurts to be exposed until it's real to us. It's a feeling so foreign to our base state that it is impossible to imagine.”
Source: Recipe for Second Chances
“We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully, and how, finally, to act on our convictions. We can read for pure delight, and if we do this as a family or classroom or other group we can build wonderful memories.”
“We can read without seeing, and we can also read without understanding. What happens to our imaginations when we have lost the narrative thread in a story, when we breeze past words we don't understand, when we read words without knowing to what they refer?
"When I am reading a sentence in a book that references something unknown to me (as when I have inadvertently skipped a passage), I feel as though I am reading a syntactically correct but semantically meaningless 'nonsense' sentence. The sentence feels meaningful -- it has the flavor of meaning -- and the structure of its grammar thrusts me forward through the sentence and on to the next, though in truth I understand (and picture) nothing.
"How much of our reading takes place in such a suspension of meaning? How much time do we spend reading seemingly meaningful sentences without knowing their referents? How much of our reading takes place in such a void -- propelled by mere syntax?
"All good books are, at heart, mysteries. (Authors withhold information. This information may be revealed over time. This is one reason we bother to tum a book's pages.) A book may be a literal mystery (Murder on the Orient Express, The Brothers Karamazov) or metaphysical mystery (Moby-Dick, Doctor Faustus) or a mystery of a purely architectonic kind -- a chronotopic mystery (Emma, The Odyssey).
"These mysteries are narrative mysteries -- but books also defend their pictorial secrets ...
"'Call me Ishmael ... '
"This statement invites more questions than it answers. We desire that Ishmael's face be, like the identity of one of Agatha Christie's murderers:
"Revealed!
"Writers of fiction tell us stories, and they also tell us how to read these stories. From a novel I assemble a series of rules -- not only a methodology for reading (a suggested hermeneutics) but a manner of cognition, all of which carries me through the text (and sometimes lingers after a book ends). The author teaches me how to imagine, as well as when to imagine, and how much.”
Source: What We See When We Read
“We can readily observe the actions of today as stepping stones to mold our days to come.”
“We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.”
“We can realize, not that our mind is wandering, but that it was.”
“We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.”
“We can rebuild our architecture and infrastructure – the kind, unlike under capitalism, that can largely withstand extreme weather – (largely) out of hemp; we can build a high-speed fully automated system of production from durable, lightweight bioplastic and graphene, out of hemp and other plants, powered by biofuel and hemp batteries, while – because of hemp’s ability to revive soil and absorb CO2 – healing the soil and stabilising the climate in the process. This reconstruction of society, which would raise living standards exponentially for everyone, is not an ideal or a fantasy, it is a necessity both historically and ecologically. But it can only be realised through socialism.”
“We can recall that earlier, Hegel claimed that the particularization, individuation, and determinateness of the Concept is a movement and reference outward, which suggests that the judgment of the Concept must have the same outward reference. The notion of outward reference suggests that the subjective Concept strives to correspond with reality and approximates it, but ultimately remains inadequate and unequal to reality until we reach what Hegel calls the Idea. What does it mean, then, that life is the immediate Idea, the immediate unity and division of Concept and reality? Roughly, I think it means the following: life qua Idea not only is the ground of the correspondence between subject and predicate in judgment but must also be the ground of a schema of reality, allowing reality to take shape for and appear to the judging subject in a way that corresponds with its powers of judgment. That is, in order for reality to potentially correspond or not correspond to judgments of the Concept, reality must appear immediately to the judging subject in a particular way. This reality is not the immediacy of sheer being, not is it the immediacy of intuition in the form of space and time; rather, it is the immediate schema of the form of life, a form that Hegel outlines in the chapter on 'Life' according to three poles: corporeality, externality, and process of the species. Reality for Hegel is this not the immediacy of sheer being or bare givenness but, rather, always appears as shaped by the specific constitution of one's life-form, and all life-forms immediately experience reality according to the specific constitution of these three poles.”
Source: Hegel's Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic
“We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.”
“We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.”
“We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.”
“We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.”
Source: The Famished Road
“We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.”
“We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?”
“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays
“We can regret something that we did , we can regret something that we didn't do; but the only thing that we can not afford to regret is regretting being ourselves”
“We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received
wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion....
This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need
for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated
philosophy, doctrine or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple.
The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and
dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.
So long as we practice these in our daily lives, then no matter if we are
learned or unlearned, whether we believe in Buddha or God, or follow some
other religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and
conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is
no doubt we will be happy.”
“We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need.”
“We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.”
Source: The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland
“We can remake the world daily.”
“We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.”
“We can remind the world that all the dead on both sides have not settled our differences, so now it is time for the living to renounce violence as a means of solving this conflict.”
“We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions; if we redesign our policies, if we look back on our concepts, so that we have a different idea of poor people.”
“We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.”
“We can remove the blocks to realizing our Higher Power by experiencing (including living in the Now), remembering, forgiving and surrendering (these five realizations can be viewed as being ultimately the same). Regular spiritual practices help us with this realization. (138)”
Source: Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Recovery Classics Edition)
“We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good.”
“We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary privilege and adventure of anthropology.”
“We can rest confident in the fact that nothing will happen to us in this world apart from the gracious will of a sovereign God. Nothing.”
Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
“We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
“We can rest on each other's hearts - yet our dreams keep on wondering.”
Source: Profound Reverie
“We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.”
“We can reveal that John's 85
That's a well known fact
Telling Kathy's age would be a breach
Of the Official Secrets Act”