W Quotes
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“We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.”
“We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars.”
“We carry within us a multiplicity - we are not one voice, but many.”
Source: The Council of Gods
“We carry within us all the mystical power we need to transform our world.”
“We carry within us every home, including those that no longer exist, so we’d have somewhere to return to.”
Source: Memory of Water
“We carry within us the memory of who we truly are; remembering is the first step to freedom.”
Source: When the Human Remembers
“We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.”
“We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play.”
“We carved our names on olive bark, believing wood was stronger than war. But bombs fell heavier than promises, and silence grew roots deeper than trees.”
Source: The Name Beneath the Dust: The Complete Novella: "The Strongest Stories Don’t Shout. They Whisper Beneath the Dust."
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)
“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.”
“We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript
“We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.”
Source: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
“We categorize, make groups and try to break down topics into units and enter the micro-level to understand the nature of reality. This disintegrating approach has become part of our vision and thought.......Winged by the thought, the disintegrated vision has now entered religion, culture, politics, social system and education. This vision never lets the 'Self' gain consciousness. Conscious 'Self' can only be developed by visualizing nature from the macro-level followed by a gradual move toward the micro-level.”
“We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.”
“We caught a few courtiers speculating about assassinating the mortal queen. Their plans got blown up.' A small smile crosses her face. 'As did they.”
Source: The Queen of Nothing
“We caught him," I said. "Thats the fun part." For us, at least. I doubt the fish would agree.”
“We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.”
Source: Travels
“We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.”
“We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign.”
“We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.”
“We celebrate beauty in life and all its possibility so we open it up for others and at the same time for ourselves.”
“We celebrate God when we share in each other’s joy and pain”
“We celebrate Independence Day in our country to remind us, that our country and its freedom is the result of sweat, patience, persistence, and sacrifice of those with the courage to dream freedom and make it a reality for their future generations.”
“We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work?”
“We celebrate our diversity, we lift people up, and we make America even greater.”
“We celebrate our intelligence, possessions, looks, talent, and achievements. Heaven celebrates how we used all of it.”
“We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.”
“We celebrate Republic and Independence Days in India to remind us, that our country and its freedom is the result of sweat, patience, persistence, and sacrifice of those with the courage to dream freedom and make it a reality for their future generations.”
“We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.”
“We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor
by giving each other motorized tie racks.”
“We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem”
“We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.”
“We celebrate the differences among us, even that which we cannot reconcile, not in denial of the absolute, but in the gift of humility that those differences require of us. Without denying our differences, we no longer allow them to categorize or divide us. It is in the diversity that the image of God is most fully reflected in and through us.”
Source: Living Christ Together: Reflections On The Missional Life
“We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.”
“We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”
“We celebrated her freedom on Tuesday night with a visit to Opart Thai House, where I introduced her to the magic of brilliantly prepared Thai dishes for the first time. She really loved the appetizers, especially the Tiger Cry, a marinated grilled beef with a spicy dipping sauce, as well as the chicken and eggplant in oyster sauce, and pad kra praow, a ground-pork dish with basil and peppers, which felt almost familiar to her- it has a background that tastes a bit like crumbled Italian fennel sausage. She liked the pad Thai, which she thought her youngest would really enjoy, and was sure that Gio would at least get into the various satays and embrace the broccoli and beef.”
Source: How to Change a Life
“We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.”
Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers
“We certainly ... hope that the Congress will act in an appropriate fashion and not waste its time with ineffectual, sham legislation on Keystone XL that has no impact on the price of gas and is irresponsible because it, as we've said before, tries to legislate the approval of a pipeline for which there is not even a route.”
“We certainly are an odd bunch."
"Yes. Seven people. Odd.”
Source: Oathbringer
“We certainly can try to grow in love, and it is good practice, this giving what we've got, whether it is a cup of coffee or money to pay the grocery bill.”
Source: The Dorothy Day book
“We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a, sort of, morality tale. What the progressives do is, they take a few nuggets of American history, Columbus' arrival, then the founder's compromise with slavery, and what they do is they fast forward to their favorite episode, so to speak, and they create a story out of that leaving a whole bunch of facts out.”
“We certainly do have to be realistic about where we stand. It is the case that cancer is the second-leading cause of deaths in the U.S., in fact, in nearly half the states it's the leading cause of death. And we have a ways to go.”
“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.”
“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”
Source: Persuasion
“We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.”
“we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.”
“We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.”
Source: Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions