W Quotes
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“We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a winter night, when one no longer seeks that girl, or any other, when to find her would actually scare one. For one no longer feels that one has attractions enough to please, or strength enough to love. Not, of course, that one is in the strict sense of the word impotent. And as for loving, one would love more than ever. But one feels that it is too big an undertaking for the little strength one has left.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)
“We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.”
Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected
“We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.”
Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN
“We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!”
“We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other”
“We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.”
“We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in a way that is totally nebulous and abstracted, this way of thinking about reality. And that's why I write the way I do - it's an almost immortal way to show dependence on the biological, the political, the moral parts of us. I say immortal because we now have to find new formats, new eloquences, and resolve within ourselves this "constructed" life, a life that is incomplete, imperfect.”
“We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.”
Source: Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered
“We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.”
“We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.”
“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”
“We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former prosecutor, I prosecuted antitrust cases civilly. And I can say that antitrust investigations merit searching, penetrating scrutiny and investigation. That's what we need here.”
“We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.”
“We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288”
“We can spend our lives decrying the injustices that befall us, or we can respond to the far greater cry that calls us to rise in determined force against them.”
“We can spend our lives fretting about our deaths, or we can use our brief time to sink deeper into the experience of being human, for all it entails. The good, the tricky the impermanent. We can acknowledge that our death will one day come and use that knowledge to create a life so whole, so honest, so juicy, that it is worth leaving.”
Source: Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.”
Source: Choke: A Novel
“We can spend our whole life looking for our purpose, or we can trust in Jesus and He will guide us to and through that purpose.”
“We can spend today joyously celebrating potential by acting upon our purpose, or we can spend it mourning the days and opportunities gone by… the first will find you amongst the few who are content and accomplished; the latter will find you with the suffering majority as you exhaustedly swim in the ocean of regret.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.”
Source: Talks to Christians
“We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.”
“We can start accessing a new way of being, a freedom of our spirit, and we can align more to that sacredness. When we hold on to the illusion, we cannot really perceive ourselves within that sacredness.”
“We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.”
Source: Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness
“We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be ready to begin the most difficult, the most powerful, the most fun of all. You will be ready to begin to fly up and know the meaning of kindness and of love.”
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition
“We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.”
“We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.”
“We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost.”
Source: Gentleman Practice
“We can still astonish the gods in humanity
And be the stuff of future legends,
If we but dare to be real,
And have the courage to see
That this is the time to dream
The best dream of them all.”
Source: Mental Fight
“We can still cap carbon, but that needn't be at the top of the agenda that we communicate to voters.”
“we can still disagree, and I can still like love you and see the humanity in you”
“We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.”
“We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.”
“We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.”
“We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.”
“We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.”
“We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.”
“We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.”
“We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we’ve got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.”
“We can strengthen our bodies and fortify our minds, but the heart is a monster of its own.”
Source: We Hunt the Flame
“We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future!”
“We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?”
Source: The Art Of Forgiveness, Loving Kindness And Peace
“We can study material processes and various processes at the energetic level, that is what we can do as natural scientists. And then there comes something quite different, the psychic experience, which remains a mystery.”
“We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand. It is the Spirit that makes us realize the truth or - in the words of Our Lord - it is the Spirit that makes us know the voice of Jesus.”
“We can study various psychic functions and also the more primitive sensory functions, such as seeing, hearing, and so on, which constitute our image of our everyday world. They have a material side and the psychic side. And that is a gap which you cannot explain.”
“We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“We can summarize electricity, magnetism and gravity into equations one inch long, and that's the power of field theory. And so I said to myself: I will create a field theory of strings. And when I did it one day, it was incredible, realizing that on a sheet of paper I can write down an equation which summarized almost all physical knowledge.”
“We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.”
“We can support our troops without supporting our president.”
“We can support President Barack Obama, because he supports us. We can support Barack Obama, because he shares our values and our vision.”