W Quotes
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“We cannot hide behind science nor talk in the name of science while proclaiming statements that are not scientific. Such statements are that there is no creator if there is no time. However, this is only a statement a scientist (Stephen Hawking) uses, not a scientific argument or fact with scientific validity. The same goes for the south of the South Pole because such a statement is a logical fallacy based on the presupposition that there is nothing south of the South Pole, meaning there is absolutely nothing beyond some point of the material World, which is only a presupposition and not a scientific or natural law. Such statements may sound like analytic or logical propositions. Still, these are not analytic or logical propositions but methods or tricks to cover up the loopholes of scientific knowledge and understanding with dogmatic statements.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“We cannot hide from God, so we should flee what can make this happen to us.”
“We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it.”
“We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.”
Source: Against religion
“We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.”
“We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.”
“We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.”
Source: Citizens Dissent: Security, Morality, and Leadership in an Age of Terror
“We cannot hope to bring about effective change unless we are willing to BE changed.”
Source: Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World
“We cannot hope to build the Church and to bring hearts and souls to Christ without using every resource the Lord has given to help us take advantage of our opportunities and address the obstacles standing in our way.”
“We cannot hope to change human nature. There will always be cranks and conspiracy theorists among us. But we can try to improve things - we don't have to accept the debasement of civil discourse or civic decline. We can take steps to ensure that the lunatic fringe remains on the fringe and stops bleeding into the base and then poisoning the mainstream”
“We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.”
Source: The violent peace
“We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.”
Source: Endgame
“We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.”
“We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.”
Source: FROM EROS TO GAIA
“We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. ’Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designes...We whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time, are providentially taken off from such imaginations.”
Source: Religio Medici / Urne-Buriall
“We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.”
Source: Americans and Others
“We cannot hope to win the ideological battle against Islam without criticism of Islam, it is essential that we continue to criticize Islam.”
“We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.”
“We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“We cannot ignore our gift of the future.”
Source: Just Peace: A Message of Hope
“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.”
“We cannot imagine a life without poetry. Poetry lights the fire in our hearts. Poetry keeps the sparks flying. Poetry makes us happy. Poetry makes us sad. Poetry brings all the colors of the rainbow into our lives. Poetry makes our lives sparkle. Poetry makes our life live. Poetry is life.”
“We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.”
Source: Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal
“We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.”
“We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.”
Source: Kino-eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov
“We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.”
“We cannot in any way resemble God if we do not to some degree possess in our innermost core an intense yearning for what is good and right.”
Source: An Anointed Mess: Discovering the Daily Adventure of Grace Kindle Edition
“We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)”
Source: Night
“We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.”
Source: Asger Jorn
“We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.”
“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”
“We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive—and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.”
“We cannot judge each minor or even major vignettes of life as a final statement of our worth. The totality of our deeds comprises our final scorecard. If a person struggles in the earnest quest of accomplishing their ultimate destination, their demonstrative sincerity exhibited traveling with an open mind and displaying disciplined application of assiduous effort to improve their own self, while unselfishly avoiding harming other people provides a measure of satisfaction, even if a person fails to attain his or her ultimate visage.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.”
Source: Castle Rackrent
“We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.”
“We cannot judge of the fact, but the law upon the fact.”
“We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.”
Source: Inviting the Mystic, Supporting the Prophet: An Introduction to Spiritual Direction
“we cannot judge the moral value of another person [so we must treat them as equal]”
“We cannot just live any how.”
“We cannot just look at a country by looking at charts, graphs, and modelling the economy. Behind the numbers there are people.”
“We cannot just say law and order. We have to say - we have to come forward with a plan that is going to divert people from the criminal justice system, deal with mandatory minimum sentences, which have put too many people away for too long for doing too little.”
“We cannot justify ourselves in living by that particular part of the word that appeals to us, the part that we desire to obey, but must be willing to. . . live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
“We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.”
“We cannot keep on blaming the past leaders about the present circumstances. We need to be mindful that if we do nothing to improve the present circumstances, our children will also blame us in the future.”
“We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!”
Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change
“We cannot keep the Good News to ourselves any longer! Time is running out!”