W Quotes
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“We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.”
Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842
“We fly with our dreams, we fall with our hesitations!”
“We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.”
Source: The Illustrated West with the Night
“We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.”
“We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. It’s not sexy from a lot of people’s perspective, it’s not glitzy in the feature set, but it’s what people come to rely on.”
“We focus on building innovation and inventing technology futures and we figure that it will take care of the rest. So far, it's done wonders.”
“We focus on Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday, but we forget to pause in the stillness of the days between. Find time today to be present in that place of waiting. There is treasure to be found in the sacred peace that comes as you breathe in that place of quiet surrender. Don’t rush through the space called “Between.”
“We focus on money, getting money and winning. We let the rest of them chase the women. We focus on winning cuz getting women is slight work. That's all the time with us.”
“We focus on that really repulsive minority of racists. But then there's a continuum that goes all the way to, you know, what used to be called the white backlash or to, you know, the feelings of some white people that they're losing out and that the jobs and power and sort of the culture is drifting away from them and toward people who don't look like them, who don't - who they don't know very well. And that's not necessarily - I don't equate that with the hardcore ideological hatred of self-identified racists.”
“We focus on the best, fun, and happy things, and people want that. Being happy never goes out of style.”
“We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.”
“We focus on trivial things too often.”
Source: sciVive
“We focus on what we do right, we learn from what we did wrong, we move onto the next day that's what prepares us, that's what makes us strong?”
“We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.”
“We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy.”
“We focus too much on the ones that turned their backs and not enough on the few that have our backs.”
Source: You Have a Superpower
“We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.”
“We focused so much on saying, "Don't vote for them and here's why" and we didn't tell the American people "Vote for us and here's why."”
“We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.”
“We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.”
“We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?”
“We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.”
Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta
“We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.”
Source: The Hunger Games
“we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours.”
Source: God in the Dock
“We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.”
Source: Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)
“We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.”
“We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.”
“We followed him to a covered veranda. In America, we would call that a lemonade porch, however, in South Africa, they call it a stoep. A meeting place located outside the front of the home where friends and family can gather, and one can watch the rising or the setting of the sun in the cozy spot simply called a stoep.
The stoep projected a natural ambience of peace and harmony, as a light breeze filled the space with its woodsy fragrance of pine and other natural fragrances inspired by the area’s shrubbery. It almost felt like it was hypnotizing one into a deeper state of tranquility, a state of existence that celebrated the quiet pockets of solitude where a richer from of living is housed. It made one slouch a little more meaningfully and relax the muscles of your body a little more conscientiously, as you let go of one’s innate need to think – to think to the point of hyper focusing on the meaningless details of life, for example, the incessant need to make every moment in life count…
Yet, the stoep’s lesson of deeper living is simply the gift of becoming reacquainted with the joy of just being – open yet connected to now, without a higher purpose beyond that. Sometimes, the greatest gift that we can give ourselves is just to sit in the rawness of the moment without any outcome or intention in mind – except, to breathe in the life of the area around us.
That is where my afternoon’s lesson ended, knowing that a stoep is a space where quality of human connection is made with or without the presence of any audience because it’s that space that celebrates the stillness of nothing and yet everything simultaneously, or in the words of Rumi: “In order to understand the dance, one must be still. And in order to truly understand the stillness, one must dance.”
In South Africa that concept is lovingly called…Die Stoep, a space of possibility.”
“We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club.”
Source: Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.”
“We fool ourselves into believing that pausing to share opinions about loving our neighbor as ourselves is the same thing as courageously emptying ourselves to do it. We signal virtue where love demands we sacrifice for it.”
Source: En(d)titlement: Trade a Culture of Shame for a Life Marked by Grace
“We fool ourselves into thinking that the spreadsheets that capture our financial projections are something different than what they are.”
“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
Source: Duma Key: A Novel
“We fooled ourselves into thinking happiness was a gift we would be given time and time again. It’s so much scarier to admit that our lives are in our own flawed, fallible hands. Our futures are not kept safe for us in de cradle of fate. We have to hack them out of stone, dig them out of mud, and build them one messy, imperfect day at a time.”
Source: A Million Worlds with You
“We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.”
Source: Hidden art
“We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.”
“We, for our own part, simply call ourselves "we." "We" are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.”
Source: Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“We for sure need to secure the border. I think we need to enforce the legal system. I'm not for amnesty, I'm not an advocate of the plans that have been pushed here in Washington... we need to find a way for people to have a legitimate legal immigration system in this country, and that doesn't mean amnesty.”
“We force-fit our tiny rubrics over this immense existence of ours until we’ve confused the box we’ve created for the existence we failed to mimic.”
“We forced Richard Nixon and the Congress who established, and thanks to your leadership, we supported you and we got the Environmental Protection Act and Agency.”
“We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.”
“We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”
Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
“We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.”
Source: The Selling of the President 1968
“We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“We forge our destiny with our own hands, yet our destiny molds us like clay..”
“We forge the chains we wear in life.”
“We forged a haven with the shattered pieces of our former selves.”
Source: Kingdom Soul
“We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that's also the eye of God. To penetrate the mystery is to become the mystery; to penetrate infinity is to become infinity; to penetrate light is to become light.”