W Quotes
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“We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...”
“We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things that scare you the most about others; people who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others and so on and so forth. The most trusting of people, are not people who have never been betrayed or who have never felt pain; but the most trusting of people are those who in themselves do not find those things worthy of that blame. We see the world through the eyes of the condition of our own souls.”
“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”
Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke
“We doubt ourselves. It's not about lowering the self-esteem. It's about increasing the self-confidence by letting the risk factor do its part”
“We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.”
“We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.”
“We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.”
“We dragged Linc along. His current honey is working tonight."
"Still the intern?"
"Yeah." Helen sat on the curvy velvet chaise, made herself at home. "I'm starting to think he's
getting serious about her."
"And?"
"I don't know. She's a nice girl, raised well. Focused, which he could use, and independent,
which I appreciate."
"But he's your baby."
"But he's my baby," Helen agreed. "I miss the little boy sometimes, with the scabbed knees and
loose shoelaces. Still see him in that tall, gorgeous lawyer in the three-piece suit that strolls in and
out of my life now. And Jesus,”
Source: The Villa
“We dragons try not to meddle, but at times, it becomes necessary, as it would simply be far too cruel to stand by when the pain serves no purpose. Especially when no lesson can be learned and no skill achieved.”
Source: Eltaris
“We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.”
“We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.”
“We drank quite a lot and Tony Harrington said, "We're thinking of starting a record label at The Wire; how about you do a solo record?" I said, "Well, how am I going to do that?" I thought about it, and I'd been working on a lot of music in the years before, and I was working as a journalist, full time, really, up until that point; in whatever little spare time I had, I was working on music. So I said yes.”
“We drank the blood of our enemies. That's why you see Gnostics so hunted. The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the enemy. The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle. Why else guard it so sacredly? Why should the black honor-guard ride half a continent, half a splintering Empire, stone night and winter day, if it's only for the touch of sweet lips on a humble bowl? No, it's mortal sin they're carrying: to swallow the enemy, down into the slick juicery to be taken in by all the cells. Your officially defined 'mortal sin,' that is. A sin against you. A section of your penal code, that's all.”
Source: Gravity’s Rainbow
“We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.”
Source: Waldmeer
“We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.”
“We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972
“We draw our strength from the battle. From our greatest conflicts come our greatest victories.”
“We draw our strength from the great oaks of the forest. As they take their nourishment from the soil, and from the rains that feed the soil, so we find our courage in the pattern of living things around us. They stand through storm and tempest. They grow and renew themselves. Like a grove of young oaks, we remain strong.”
“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.”
Source: The Words of César Chávez
“We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.”
Source: The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States
“We dread old age, which are not sure of being able to attain.
[Fr., L'on craint la vieillesse, que l'on n'est pas sur de pouvoir atteindre.]”
“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“We dream digital nation,
but we ban other countries digital platforms.”
“We dream every night, all the time.”
“We dream forever unless we awaken. We move from one dream to another, some beautiful, some we're the hero or the heroine, some horrible, some nonsensical, some boring.”
“We dream in colors borrowed from the seaside”
“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
Source: The Scarlet Letter
“We dream of a day when India is completely self-reliant in defence production & exports defence equipment worldwide.”
“We dream of an India that is self-sufficient in producing defence equipment using the latest technology.”
“We dream of an India where development is the result of all Chief Ministers, the Prime Minister, state Ministers, Union Ministers working together with even Local Body Authorities as one team, a strong and united Team India.”
“We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.”
“We dream of passing through ourselves and of finding ourselves in the beyond: the day when your holographic double will be there in space, eventually moving and talking, you will have realized this miracle. Of course, it will no longer be a dream, so its charm will be lost.”
Source: Simulacra and Simulation
“we dream of peace and tranquility, the day when we no longer despair but our self-imposed angst cannot be avoided. we can't run. it won't go away. the noises i hear in my hell are very real and i'll continue to exist in an interested sort of anguish, looking for bloodstains on acid free sidewalks.”
“We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else.”
“We dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.”
“We dream our dreams away.”
“We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.”
Source: The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again
“We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.”
“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.”
“We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —”
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson
“We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.”
Source: Icehenge
“We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do.”
Source: The Essential Etheridge Knight
“We dreamed together of the world remade.”
“We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhere
Making love while we let the midnight air
Flow through the open window, into our closed hearts
Left bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart”
“We dreamt of light, but hoped for darkness.”
Source: The Lazarus Project
“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“We dress ourselves up in lies,
So that the nakedness of truth doesn't come out.”
“We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.”
“We drew our inspiration from everyday stories.”
“We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.”