W Quotes
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“We continue to speak, if only in whispers,
to something inside us that longs to be named.”
Source: The Book of Men: Poems
“We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan.”
“We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.”
“We continue to swing like a pendulum, from good to evil. It's easy to predict human behaviours because we only have two options.”
“We continue to think of new things in old ways.”
“We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex. And it's not going to feel particularly good for girls as the big marker of adulthood.”
“We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation.”
“We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.”
Source: On Being a Teacher
“We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.”
“We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.”
“We continuously make promises and create agreements with ourselves and others. Some of these agreements are mutually beneficial. However, when you realize that things you agreed to in the past are no longer helpful, possible, or relevant, renegotiate. Be invested enough in your situations or relationships for renegotiation to take place.”
“We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.”
“We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.”
“We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.”
“We control it,” he said quietly. “If the war’s impossible to end, then we have to control it indefinitely. Just as we do now. With the Peacekeepers occupying the districts, with strict laws, and with reminders of who’s in charge, like the Hunger Games. In any scenario, it’s preferable to have the upper hand, to be the victor rather than the defeated.”
Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.”
Source: 1984
“We control the content of our dreams.”
“We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.”
“We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.”
Source: The world within the word: essays
“We convince by our presence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)
“We cook, we fight, we win. That simple.”
Source: Starve #4
“We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases there is any conflict between the rights of property and the rights of man, then we must stand for the rights of man.”
“We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.”
“We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“We could adopt. there are lots of kids out there who could grow up to hate us as much as any kid we could make”
Source: Game Plan
“We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.”
“We could afford the price of peace. Love is all it costs.”
“We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!”
“We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.”
“We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.”
“We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too!”
“We could all drive ourselves mad thinking about what could have been. But life happens the way it happens, and there's no point wishing the past was any different. It will always be what it was, and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.”
Source: A Fire Sparkling
“We could all get along if we just hang out at iSurfing.”
“We could all stand to learn something from the Queen. Kudos to her for saying with her actions that it's okay to alter tradition and accept people where they are.”
“We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.”
“We could all use a little redemption.”
Source: After Avalon
“We could all use the power of prayer now and then, but it seems to me that the people who are sure they have a direct line to heaven are most often calling collect with bad news.”
“We could all work up a nervous breakdown in thirty seconds, if we really wanted to.”
“We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.”
Source: Lodore
“We could almost say that being willing to be a fool is one of the first wisdoms. So acknowledging foolishness is always a very important and powerful experience. The phenomenal world can be perceived and seen properly if we see it from the perspective of being a fool. There is very little distance between being a fool and being wise; they are extremely close. When we are really, truly fools, when we actually acknowledge our foolishness, then we are way ahead. We are not even in the process of becoming wise — we are already wise.”
“We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole, than waiting for the thick wall encircling life to brutally make the first move. (As happens during wartime.)”
Source: The Situationists and the City: A Reader
“We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.”
Source: Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence
“We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.”
“We could argue in front of our lockers all dramatically," I said. "That's something I saw a lot at human high schools."
He squeezed me in a quick hug. "Yes! Now that sounds like a good time. And then I could come to your house in the middle of the night and play music really loudly under your window until you took me back."
I chuckled. "You watch too many movies. Ooh, we could be lab partners!"
"Isn't that kind of what we were in Defense?"
"Yeah, but in normal high school, there would be more science, less kicking each other in the face."
"Nice.”
Source: Demonglass
“We could argue that the ancient Egyptians were positively constrained by their hieroglyphic system of writing to express abstract qualities in a crudely physical way. Against such an interpretation, it is important to bear in mind that language is not simply the vehicle of expression of a given mentality, it actually is that mentality giving expression to itself. The very structures of language are the articulation of the mentality. We should be wary of thinking that the ancient Egyptian mind was “really” like ours, but was constrained by the hieroglyphic script. Rather, the hieroglyphic script was the medium most appropriate for the articulation of the ancient Egyptian mentality. Far from being crude, it reflected richly symbolic modes of conceiving and relating to both the physical and the psychic spheres of existence. It has already become apparent that these two spheres were not experienced as separated from each other—as we today tend to experience them. It is now necessary to go further, and seriously consider the idea that psychic attributes were indeed experienced as “situated” in various parts of the body. The pictorial character of the hieroglyphic form of writing made possible a quite effortless translation of this experience into the written word. For the hieroglyphic script, because it was pictorial, had not yet created a division between concrete and abstract, between “outer” and “inner.” And it had not done so just because the ancient Egyptian mentality had not done so.”
Source: Temple of the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian Experience of the Sacred
“We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.”
“We could be a possibility”
“We could be alone in this universe, you can't doubt the inevitable thought about this whole reality.”
“We could be as gentle as October!
Letting what must change, change,
without pleading for permanence.
Even in our fading,
there could be colour,
and an ineffable acceptance of passing.”
“We could be dead- said Eli.
That‘s a risk everyone takes by living.”