W Quotes
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“We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.”
“We clasp hands and join the circle dance, leaping and laughing. The song feels as though it is calling my blood, moving it through my veins to the same ragged beat, with the same sweet chords.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle of each other's arms, and the larger circle of lovers whose hands are joined in a dance, and the larger circle of all creatures, passing in and out of life, who move also in a dance, to a music so subtle and vast that no ear hears it except in fragments.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“We clasp the hands of those who go before us.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.”
“We classify the positive traits that protect us from excess as strengths of temperance. What are the types of excess of special concern? Hatred—against which forgiveness and mercy protect us. Arrogance—against which humility and modesty protect us. Short-term pleasure with long-term costs—against which prudence protects us. And destabilizing emotional extremes of all sorts—against which self-regulation protects us.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“We clean our house when we invite someone, we must clean our hearts if we want to invite Allah.”
“We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.”
Source: Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body
“We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.”
“We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.”
“We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.”
“We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.”
“We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.”
“We clearly recognize the need for something that is what [Buckminster Fuller] represents and therefore it becomes really useful and really interesting to look at the ways in which world changing today totally misses everything that was valuable.”
“We clearly see in God's Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It's easier to come up with excuses for why we can't do things that are hard or that we really don't want to do.”
“We clearly were on the same team. You killed over a dozen of the bastards and I wasn't about to reward you by killing you. They deserved it.”
Source: Toxic Game
“We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.”
“We cleave with all our heart and with all our soul, to Catholic Rome, the guardian of the Catholic Faith and to eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and truth.
On the other hand we refuse and have always refused to follow the Rome of the new-Protestant trend clearly manifested throughout Vatican II Council and, later, in all the reforms born out of it. (Doctrinal Declaration of 1974)”
“We climb mountains because they are there, and worship God because He is not.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.”
“We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it.”
Source: My Brilliant Friend
“We climbed under the chain fence and knelt around Dad while he petted the cheetah. By then a few people had begun to gather. One man was calling to us to get back behind the chain fence. We ignored him. I knelt close to the cheetah. My heart was beating fast, but I wasn’t scared, only excited. I could feel the cheetah’s hot breath on my face. He looked right at me. His amber eyes were steady but sad, as if he knew he’d never see the plains of Africa again.”
Source: The Glass Castle
“We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.”
“We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.”
“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.”
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
“We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”
Source: Chuang tsu: Inner chapters
“We cling to the comfort of a middle class, forgetting that there can't be a middle class without a lower.”
Source: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
“We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.”
Source: Outliers: The Story of Success
“We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.”
Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'
“We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.”
“We Close In Fifteen Minutes by Stewart Stafford
Found myself the only taker,
Of a minefield guided tour,
Through no man's land life,
Every exit is now invisible.
Stardom magnified my flaws,
A broken man lost in a maze,
A deadly structure's hostage,
A hermit in denial's labyrinth.
Glimpse dwindling fragments,
In the looking glass of hubris,
Flounder in glossy quicksand,
The solutions devoured whole.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“We Close Quick & Quiet With Cash!”
“We closed our eyes together on another night.”
“We closed the deal and moved to New York.
Where in fact I had lived before, from the time I was twenty-one and just out of the English Department at Berkeley and starting work at Vogue (a segue so profoundly unnatural that when I was asked by the Condé Nast personnel department to name the languages in which I was fluent I could think only of Middle English) until I was twenty-nine and just married.”
Source: Blue Nights
“We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.”
“We clung onto each other like our lives depended on it, and honestly, that's what it felt like. I dug my fingers into his skin, and he dug his into mine. It hurt, but it was memorable, and that's all we needed it to be.”
“We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor...
When I say this, it should mean laughter,
not poison.”
Source: Crush
“We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.”
“We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.”
“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”
“We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.”
“We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.”
“We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century.”
Source: Survival In Auschwitz
“We collected our things from our quarters---the ones that had been assigned to us and the ones we had adopted--- and I gathered up all my notes that would slowly metamorphose into The Extinction of Irena Rey. Maybe Grey Eminence was right that writing has to be an engine of extinction. But the first to inhabit a traumatized landscape are often fungi, lichen, slime molds, and species of plants known as "ruderal," a word that derives from the Latin word for "rubble." Maybe the extinction of Irena Rey made the space for a ruderal art, like a book about what happened to her translators.”
Source: The Extinction of Irena Rey
“We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.”
“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)
“We colour the world,
Not with the darkness of our pasts,
But with the rainbow of our hope.”
Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems
“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.”