W Quotes
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“We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.”
Source: Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive
“We cannot become starched Christians, those overeducated Christians who speak of theological matters as they calmly sip their tea. No! We must become courageous Christians and go in search of the people who are the very flesh of Christ! ... This is the [issue]: the flesh of Christ, touching the flesh of Christ, taking upon ourselves this suffering for the poor.”
Source: The Church of Mercy
“We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).”
“We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.”
“We cannot become the worst version of ourselves
in our attempts at resistance.
We must resist,
as we do,
with all the strength and persistence in us, but also
with all the grace, empathy, and humility we
can muster.
It is the only way we can save not just the country
but our selves.”
“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”
Source: Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results
“We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him.”
Source: Loving God with All Your Mind
“We cannot begin to discover the mind as long as we ignore the irrational and subterranean springs of behaviour as well as thought.”
Source: Nietzsche, Heidegger and Buber (Discovering the Mind 2):
“We cannot begin with complete doubt.”
Source: Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic
“We cannot begin with complete doubt. We must begin with all the prejudices which we actually have when we enter upon the study ofphilosophy. These prejudices are not to be dispelled by a maxim, for they are things which it does not occur to us can be questioned. A person may, it is true, in the course of his studies, find reason to doubt what he began by believing; but in that case he doubts because he has a positive reason for it, and not on account of the Cartesian maxim. Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.”
“We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan's lurking places have already been found out.”
“We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.”
“We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“We cannot blame the public, science, or the media for the myths, misrepresentations, cynicism — and sometimes blatant ignorance of what it truly means to be a psychic or medium — while we continue as a community to use inaccurate, ill-conceived jargon and misconstrued concepts based on a flawed ‘sensory’ model of psychic perception.”
Source: The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception
“We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.”
“We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.”
“we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.”
“We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.”
“We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.”
“We cannot bring peace in our city, when there is no peace in our homes.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.”
Source: The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside
“We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.”
“We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital”
“We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.”
“We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.”
“We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.”
“We cannot build our lives around what might happen tomorrow.”
“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001
“We cannot build the future by avenging the past.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“We cannot build the new culture for learning to which we aspire in an environment which is depressed and dampened every day by the impact of alcohol and drug abuse, and we should not, and we cannot, hide from that reality any longer. More and more of our students are demanding that they not be imposed upon by others whose judgment and behavior are impaired by substance abuse. It is time to take a stand.”
“We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.”
“We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.”
“We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.”
“We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.”
“We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues human life and entrusts it to the judgement of individuals. A consequence deriving therefrom is lessened respect for the human person, a value that lies at the foundation of any form of civil coexistence, over and above the faith a person may profess.”
“We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.”
Source: Among My Books: First [-second] series
“We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.”
Source: Young Art and Old Hector: A Novel
“We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.”
“We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.”
“We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.”
Source: Self-portrait
“we cannot
carry another
on their own way…
in soul searching,
we must all find
our own legs beneath us,
our own voice inside of us,
and our own
light to guide us.”
“We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.”
“We cannot carry the gospel to the poor and lowly while emulating the practices of the rich and powerful. We’ve been invited into a story that begins with humility and ends with glory; never the other way around.”
Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess
“We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.”
Source: America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island
“We cannot change another person. We can only change ourselves and how we will respond to the good and bad behavior of our loved ones, who continue to cause us to live in daily pain.”
Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”