W Quotes
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“We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.”
Source: Poetical works
“We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.”
“We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.”
“We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.”
“We get one life, why not make the most of it and live our dreams.”
Source: Manifest Your Dreams: Your Miracle Mindset
“We get one of these little pings on our smartphones, and we get a little hit of dopamine as well. We get excited. We feel anticipation. As we feel this, we want it more and more. So we spend more and more time looking at our phones.”
“We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!”
“We get only transient and partial glimpses of the beauty of the world. Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colors of the rainbow in colorless ice. From the right point of view, every storm and every drop in it is a rainbow.”
Source: The Journal, 1837-1861
“We get our butts kicked by real life, and people come to our defense, and help us, and we learn that we’re not separate, and don’t want to be. We see people near and dear to us dropping away, and are gradually convinced that maybe we too will drop away (someday, a long time from now). Most people, as they age, become less selfish and more loving.”
Source: Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness
“We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.”
“We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.”
“We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Mark Twain (Illustrated): 12 American Classics & Author’s Biography: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, A Horse’s Tale, The Prince and the Pauper, The American Claimant, The Mysterious Stranger…
“We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.”
“We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.”
“We get paid for bringing value to the market place.”
“We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time,... but we get paid for the value, not the time.”
“We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are sluts and whores, each and every one.”
“We get past things. We keep going. That’s what people do, Celes. As long as they keep doing that, there’s always hope for the future.”, FADE by Kailin Gow”
Source: Fever
“We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.”
“We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.”
“We get real picky about frequencies. Put it on a tape, start on tape, and it's kind of locked to how it sounds. Which would have been a very interesting thing to have done, but we were very aware that we wanted a bizarre kind of production value on the record.”
“We get relatives by fate, but we make friends by our choice... Life is wonderful when friends are around. - In search of a Soulmate”
“We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.”
“We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.”
“We get several requests for contributions each year from organizations in Twin Falls. We don't have enough money in the general fund to help everyone, so we use fundraisers like this to generate money.”
“We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other.”
“We get sick because of something inside going wrong! We get well because of something inside going right!”
“We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.”
Source: Monarchs and Mendicants
“We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.”
“We get so focused on getting things done that we tend to forget we are human beings, not human doings.”
Source: Move Forward Stronger: A Dynamic Framework to Process Change, Loss, and Grief
“We get so involved with the latest craze or having the latest car or the most high-powered house that we lose touch with that which makes us happy - what makes us happy are quiet states of mind.”
“We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.”
“We get so many people saying short fiction is not economical, that it doesn't sell; but there are so many of us enjoying writing it and reading it. So it's wonderful to be around people who love short fiction too - it's like hanging around with my tribe.”
“We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.”
“We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.”
“We get so worried about being pretty. Let’s be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong.”
“We get sombre about death. Think about Charon the ferryman rowing the souls across the Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Pretty grim stuff. Unless you think that, perhaps, at times, old Charon rows souls back to the land of the living too. Perhaps I have merely gone to rest awhile…”
Source: Stronger Than Lions
“We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.”
Source: The Collected Writings
“We get stuck in a rut whether it is in a “9 to 5” job that actually makes us work 80 hours a week or working constantly when you run your own business. It’s always about planning for the future, it is always about striving for more, even if that striving for more ends up ends up totally destroying your life.
Why? Because having a lot of “fire in the belly” is portrayed as a virtue, REGARDLESS of whether that fire in the belly is doing you or even the world at large any good!! The truth is your work is NOT THAT important in the grand scheme of things, and if you hate doing it, it’s not even important for you. You may consider yourself super important, but no matter how successful you are, you are most likely a cog in the wheel of the system who will find a replacement for you, the moment your body can no longer take it.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.”
Source: The Game
“We get success by hard work and failure by hard luck”
Source: लुटेरों का टीला: चंबल
“We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.”
Source: Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality
“We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and its time to just unplug and look within.”
“We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.”
“We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.”
Source: The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism
“We get talent and scale from mergers.”
“We get the best people we can get and it turns out a lot of them are women. I've said this before If you hire people solely on their merit you wind up hiring a lot of women. I wonder how many other shows even come close to our numbers.”
“We get the job done. So what happens if we win?”
“We get the leaders we create.”
“We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.”