W Quotes
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“We gravitate toward what we contemplate.”
“We gravitate toward what we contemplate, so naturally when we focus on our problems, we reap the subject of our focus-the problem. When we search for opportunities to live out God's design, we look for and find our purpose.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of judicious mating, but which, especially in the case of man, takes cognizance of all influences that tend in however remote a degree to give to the more suitable races or strains of blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had. The word eugenics would sufficiently express the idea.”
“We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis”
“We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.”
“We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing”
“We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for.”
“We grew apart. The thing is, we loved each other, and on some level we always will, but when you’re twenty-three and you fall in love, you tend to think that love will supercede any problems. Realizing that no matter how much you love somebody, no matter how desperately you want a relationship to work, life can act as an oxidizer and corrode it to pieces.”
“We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.”
“We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.”
“We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.”
“We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.”
“We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.”
“We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because we had this appearance of being this happy, large, smiling family. We were taught to smile, put the best face forward. And so when the book ended up - Dad swatting us around the room, no one believed me.”
“We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom or Dad or brother or sister or friends. I have to build a world view of who I am or I go stark, raving mad. Every transsexual in the past has had to do this.”
“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.”
Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel
“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”
Source: The Collected Writings
“We grew up hearing stories about how he has been cheated - out of money, out of reputation, out of a grander fate. We had lost everything, he'd wail, and that was despite the fact that we had each other.”
“We grew up in a place without a hint of love. Perhaps this was the single thing that bound us forever.”
Source: Semmant
“We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew up in praying homes, our father launched a Christian school with nothing, basically he had some people that believed in the project but they had very little resources, and we watched our parents deal with those issues first in prayer, and then when they went out knocking on doors they saw amazing doors answered and resources come in.”
“We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.”
“We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.”
“We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.”
“We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.”
“We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.”
“We grew up on the fallout,
the invisible dust of ambition and fear.
We learned to dream inside bunkers,
to kiss like it was an act of rebellion
against the men in suits who wrote
the end of the world in fountain pen ink.
Maybe we didn’t even have a chance.
Maybe the dice were loaded
long before we were born,
Our names not written in peace”
Source: Time With Trees: 1995–2025, A Collected Work
“We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the same schools,
Rode the same bus,
Had the same friends,
And even shared spaghetti
With each other's families.
And though our roots belong to
The same tree,
Our branches have grown
In different directions.
Our tree,
Now resembles a thousand
Other trees
In a sea of a trillion
Other trees
With parallel destinies
And similar dreams.
You cannot envy the branch
That grows bigger
From the same seed,
And you cannot
Blame it on the sun's direction.
But you still compare us,
As if we're still those two
Kids at the park
Slurping down slushies and
Eating ice cream.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.”
“We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'”
Source: Da Bull: Life Over the Edge
“We grew up with a camera in front of us.”
“We grew up with all the Fat Wreck Records and all the Epitaph bands, that era. We mixed it up together. We were never purists of being just pop or just pop-punk. We always wanted to blend everything that we love.”
“We grew up with so much love in our family.”
“We grew up with social media. There was no iPhone when we started! I love technology; I love what it does to my life. What I really love about social media and the Internet is that it has shifted the power it has democratised everything.”
“We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.”
“We grieve only for what we know”
Source: A Sand County Almanac
“We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.”
“We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.”
“We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.”
Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers
“We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.”
“We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.”
“We grow because the clamorous, permanent presence of our children forces us to put their needs before ours. We grow because our love for our children urges us to change as nothing else in our lives has the power to do. We grow (if we're willing to grow, that is: not every parent is willing) because being a parent helps us stop being a child.”
“We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.”
“We grow by acknowledging there is an area within ourselves and within our life that can be stronger and re-aligned to our highest good. This acknowledgement requires honesty.”
Source: Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships
“We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.”
“We grow by our dreams.”
“We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“We grow fearless by walking into our fears.”
“We grow fearless when we do the things we fear.”
“We grow from our dreams.”
“We grow from salts, and we use sugar as fuel; too much salt overloads the roots, and too much sugar spoils us.
Fixing an overload, requires time & release, to make space for dilution.”