W Quotes
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“We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.”
“We did it!" I said, feeling limp with relief. "It actually worked!" Dr. Turgenev rubbed his forehead. "I had very big doubts." "Big doubts?" I said weakly. The Russian scientist shrugged. "I am pessimist," he said.”
“We did it, we bashed them wee Potter's the one, and Voldy's gone moldy, so now let's have fun!”
“We did just leave an insane asylum,” Hi agreed. “For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada.”
“We did like 12 shows, then we did the entire Ozzfest with the first half completely booked; then we did the second half with a couple days off here and there”
“We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.”
“We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.”
“We did monologues and scenes, and New York I did a scene from Amadeus and a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead by Eric Bogosian, and then in L.A. I switched the scene to This is Our Youth and did the same monologue. I was spiky-haired, super skinny. A lot of people were like, "You should come here and do a sitcom." That was the feedback that I got. Obviously it was quite a different journey than the one I've actually had, but I just listened to people.”
“We did musical chairs to sit with our partner. Glasses were refilled and heads bent in pairs. Looking over the table, I was suffused with affection for my friends. If you could bottle this warm feeling and turn it into words, I thought, that would be the perfect toast.”
“We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.”
“We did not agree in all things,… but we did in some, and those we pulled at together. That was my first lesson in real politics… if you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, a hatchet, and a chisel to make a boat with, why, go make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven’t. So with men.”
“We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.”
“We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.”
“We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.”
“We did not come from nowhere. We are embedded in a very deep biological and cosmological history. That history does not determine us, because organisms from the very beginning, and increasingly with each new capacity, have influenced their own fate.”
Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
“We did not come into this world loathing ourselves or wishing to numb or feelings. As small children, we operated from a place of wonder, curiosity, spontaneity and creativity.”
Source: Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way
“We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.”
“We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
Trees that start again.”
Source: Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems
“We did not create ourselves, but we are stuck with ourselves.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“We did not decide to be born hence; we cannot live on our own”
“We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We did not earn creativity, nor did God forget to give creativity to some of us.”
Source: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery
“We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.”
“We did not exist, the we we thought we'd always be.”
Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing
“We did not fall into this world we have now, we made it. I'll tell you this: The braver I am, the luckier I get.”
Source: Untamed
“We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.”
“We did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.”
“We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.”
“We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.”
“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that snapped the forestays of the mast so that it fell aft, while all the ship’s gear tumbled about at the bottom of the vessel. The mast fell upon the head of the helmsman in the ship’s stern, so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell overboard as though he were diving, with no more life left in him. “Then Jove let fly with his thunderbolts, and the ship went round and round, and was filled with fire and brimstone as the lightning struck it. The men all fell into the sea; they were carried about in the water round the ship, looking like so many sea-gulls, but the god presently deprived them of all chance of getting home again.”
Source: The odyssey
“We did not go about this bride thing right. I do not think women are still used to being stolen as they once were.”
“Some adjustment is to be expected.”
“It is more than that. She keeps asking for things that I do not have—her Earth clothes and something called a cheeseburger, which I recall from the mini shows as being a giant food that women enjoy eating half naked very slowly.” Kyran thought of Eve’s beautiful legs. He would very much enjoy getting her a cheeseburger”
Source: Determined Prince
“We did not go the beach to have our foot printed on her shores, but well, we did end up doing that.”
“We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.”
“We did not grow up with a lot of money, but we did grow up knowing that mental illness is the norm accepted with badges of honor”
Source: A Notebook of Love: My Story on Mental Health
“We did not happen to be--we were chosen by God to exist.”
Source: Mother Angelica on Prayer: And Living for the Kingdom
“We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.”
“We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term.”
“We did not have a world that we shared; she gave me the space in her life that she wanted me to have. I had to be content with that. Wanting more, even wanting to know more, was presumption on my part. If we were particularly happy with each other and I asked her something because at that moment it felt as if everything was possible and allowed, then she sometimes ducked my questions, instead of refusing outright to answer them.”
Source: The Reader
“We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. It was an army that would move but not maul. It was an army that would sing but not slay. It was an army that would flank but not falter. It was an army to storm the bastions of hatred, to lay siege to the fortress of segregation, to surround the symbols of discrimination. It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were eloquently simple dictates of conscience.”
“We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“We did not hope for the same things, but we all hoped.”
“We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.”
“We did not know there were rules. We probably looked at the rules and decided they made no sense.”
“We did not know what had happened at first, because the sail shut out the view, but from the nature of the language that rose up upon the evening air, we gathered that we had come into the neighbourhood of human beings, and that they were vexed and discontented.”
Source: Three Men in a Boat
“We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.”
“We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.”
Source: Story of the eye
“We did not make ourselves, nor did we fashion a world that could not work without pain, and great pain at that, with a little pleasure, very little, to string us along--a world where all organisms are inexorably pushed by pain throughout their lives to do that which will improve their chances to survive and create more of themselves. Left unchecked, this process will last as long as a single cell remains palpitating in this cesspool of the solar system, this toilet of the galaxy. So why not lend a hand in nature's suicide? For want of a deity that could be held to account for a world in which there is terrible pain, let nature take the blame for our troubles. We did not create an environment uncongenial to our species, nature did. One would think that nature was trying to kill us off, or get us to suicide ourselves once the blunder of consciousness came upon us. What was nature thinking? We tried to anthropomorphize it, to romanticize it, to let it into our hearts. But nature kept its distance, leaving us to our own devices. So be it. Survival is a two-way street. Once we settle ourselves off-world, we can blow up this planet from outer space. It's the only way to be sure its stench will not follow us. Let it save itself if it can--the condemned are known for the acrobatics they will execute to wriggle out of their sentences. But if it cannot destroy what it has made, and what could possibly unmake it, then may it perish along with every other living thing it has introduced to pain.”
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
“We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption.”
“We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.”