W Quotes
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“We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.”
“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”
Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.”
Source: Nietzsche: The will to power as art
“We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.”
“We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.”
“We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest”
“We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.”
“We do not accept the Western way of thinking that there are two ways of life. At the same time, the police (here) are not chasing gays. In Africa, sexuality is something very private, even for heterosexuals. Heterosexuals are not parading! But gays want to behave like exhibitionists.”
“We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.”
“We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society”
Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher
“We do not act because we know, but we know because we are called upon to act; the practical reason is the root of all reason.”
Source: The vocation of man, tr. by W. Smith
“We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.”
“We do not actually know other cultures; we only know our judgements.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“We do not actually know other nations; we only know our judgements.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgements.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgments.”
“We do not actually know other races; we only know our judgements.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“We do not admire a man of timid peace.”
“We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.”
Source: Roosevelt's Writings: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt
“We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of God. He offers his victims not to the altar, but merely to assert the idleness of the altar and the emptiness of the throne. He is ready to ruin even that primary ethic by which all things live, for his strange and eternal vengeance upon some one who never lived at all.”
“We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine
“We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.”
“We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.”
“We do not allow others to control us, but we do understand and feel their pain when we realize that their controlling manner is a compulsion. Most controlling people cannot help themselves; they are not in control of the controlling. They are not insulting us by trying to control us; rather, they automatically take charge and dominate people and situations. They do this because of a chilling fear that they cannot handle letting the chips fall where they may. It takes a spiritual program to be liberated from the compulsion to be controlling - and to become compassionate toward controlling people.”
Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
“We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.”
“We do not always do what we are built for.”
Source: All the Windwracked Stars
“We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.”
“We do not always have control over what happens in the outside world, but we can learn to control what happens on the inside.”
Source: Prana
“We do not always have explanations to questions of human nature. Are those who revel in their own anguish and grief seeking attention, or has it become an ingrained slice of their personality? I think, both.”
“We do not always know what cake life would bake for us, but we are sure going to eat from its oven anyway.”
Source: These Words Burn Like Fire
“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”
Source: The Gathering
“We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.”
Source: Gesammelte Schriften
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.”
Source: American Gods
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.”
“We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.”
“We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.”
“We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.”
“We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.”
“We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.”
Source: Selected poems
“We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.”
“We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.”
“We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.”
“We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.”
“We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.”
“We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.”
“We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
“We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.”
“We do not attract what we want, But what we are.”