W Quotes
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“We find an abundance of anger and the desire to destroy the opposition in any competitive human environment. Hate sparks contest, and in the modern world, attorneys are the paid gladiators of warring parties. Attorneys are for hire to the highest bidder. Attorneys ply their trade by dealing in the commerce of anger and hatred.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".”
“We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.”
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
“We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.”
“We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close to the heart of that mystery. I know no more now than I ever did about the far side of death as the last letting-go of all, but now I know that I do not need to know, and that I do not need to be afraid of not knowing. God knows. That is all that matters.”
“We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“We find Christ in all the Scriptures. In the Old Testament He is predicted, in the Gospels He is revealed, in Acts He is preached, in the epistles He is explained, and in Revelation He is expected.”
“We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.”
“We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.”
“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.”
Source: Theory of Colours
“We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.”
Source: Robert Browning
“We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.”
“We find happiness doing what we love.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We find happiness in a kaleidoscope of stories: in books, in comics, in dance, in podcasts, in film and TV shows and video games. We find happiness in cosplaying as our favorite characters, and going to meet-and-greets with our favorite celebrities, and Dimension Door-ing onto the back of an Ancient Black Dragon, and finger-gunning Magic Missiles with our murder-hobo friends in a weekly session of Dungeons and Dragons. We all deserve to be happy, and love what we love, and be unironically enthusiastic about it. There is a magic in fandom that there rarely is anywhere else—where you can raise a TV show from the dead, and un-fridge a favorite character, and write fanfic that becomes canon. It is the kind of magic that brings our far corners of the world together.”
Source: The Princess and the Fangirl
“We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal.”
“We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage”
“We find in silence and body language the shadow of truth.”
Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS
“We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.”
“We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.”
“We find in the novella a seamless interweaving of at least two narrative voices, one of which is that of an observer so sympathetic that his language appears to be Aschenbach's own, the other of which is superficially celebratory (except at the moment of moralistic condemnation) but undercuts Aschenbach by means of an ironic detachment.”
“We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without a clear reason.”
“We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?”
“We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.”
“We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.”
Source: The Mind in the Making
“We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.”
“We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.”
“We find it very difficult to assimilate and accept the idea that those close to us can advise us correctly; so we see it as humiliating and demeaning that we are better off not listening to them. We must grow out of this ego in order to enact change that the world will reckon with”
“We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.”
“We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.”
“We find life in art and we find art in life!”
“We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.”
“We find love by being loving.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“We find many friends when we are down and out. People swarm around with proclamations of, 'Oh, how dreadful. How terrible.' They may as well be saying, 'Thank you so much for making me feel better about myself and my life. You have more problems than me and are more pathetic.' Yet, when we enter the path of healing, there will be few standing there to wish us well, in case we find it.”
Source: Waldmeer
“We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We find new strength in every battle won.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We find “Nirvana” rendered by “annihilation” (no one stops to ask of what?), though the word means “despiration”, as Meister Eckhart uses the term. I accuse the majority of Christian writers of a certain irresponsibility, or even levity, in their references to other religions. I should never dream of making use of a Gospel text without referring to the Greek, and considering also the earlier history of the Greek words employed, and I demand as much of Christian writers.
To THE NEW ENGLISH WEEKLY, LONDON - January 8, 1946”
Source: Selected letters of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
“We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.”
Source: Commentary on Galatians
“We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.”
Source: Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein
“We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity.”
“We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time. It may be hard for us; and among ourselves we may perhaps laugh at the appearance we thus present. But what of that! We no longer have any other mode of self-overcoming available to us: this is our asceticism, our penance.”
“We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.”
“We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.”
“We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.”
“We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.”
Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage
“We find our images of what we call evil in things outside ourselves, in creatures that know nothing of such matters, so that we can feel revolted by them, and, by contrast, good about ourselves.”
Source: Last Chance To See
“We find our lives when we give them away.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working