W Quotes
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“We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.”
“We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)”
Source: Why Revival Tarries
“We have adorned the lower heaven with an adornment, the star- They cannot listen to the exalted assembly and they are reproached from every side.”
“We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.”
Source: The Political Writings
“We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.”
“We have African-Americans and black people getting behind the scenes more and more, we get true black images in television and film...because we have black people behind them. They can tell stories from those points of view and bring to life those characters who have yet to be shown. As long as we have people behind the camera just as much as in front of the camera doing the work, then we'll always be good.”
“We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an invention of the so-called Arab system, the positional system of counting with zero dated to the eighth or ninth century.”
“We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.”
“We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It's cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It's not related to the crisis.”
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
Fanny Price from Mansfield Park”
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Source: Mansfield Park
“We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.”
“We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.”
“We have all, at one time or another, been negatively impacted in some way by those things we can’t control”
“We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself!”
“We have all been brought up with an ethical system of 2,000 years ago, an industrial-managerial system of 200-300 years ago, a statecraft system of 200 years ago, and so on. None of this is working very well for the requirements of a time as complex and variegated as our own. So we stand shuttering at the threshold, with no clear map.”
“We have all been each other‘s mothers, fathers, lovers, best friends, and worst enemies, and we will continue to be everything to each other throughout time. So in order for our lives to become completely actualized in enlightened happiness, all other beings must also experience their lives as full of happiness. We can leave out no single being. Like the Three Musketeers, we are „all for one and one for all“. We cannot liberate just ourselves from suffering, because it is impossible to achieve fully perfect bliss if anyone is excluded from it. Infinite interconnection logically mandates infinite responsibility. (p. 24)”
Source: Infinite Life: Awakening to Bliss Within
“We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.”
“We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.”
“We have all been given a gift with 'The Big Bang Theory,' a show that's not only based in the scientific community, but also enthusiastically supported by that same community - this is our opportunity to give back, in that spirit, our 'Big Bang' family has made a meaningful contribution, and together, we'll share in the support of these future scholars, scientists and leaders.”
“We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it.”
Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy
“We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty tree root-bound or a little fishbowl keeps goldfish tiny, we have adapted, adjusted, and accommodated to a Lilliputian life. But place the same tree in an open field or the fish in a lake, and they will grow to hundreds of times their size. Unlike the tree or goldfish, you are not dependent on someone else to move you. You have the power to move yourself. You can step into a broader domain and grow to your full potential.”
Source: Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It
“We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.”
“We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.”
“We have all been through something, it's how you create something out of it that matters.”
“We have all done things that we regret, learn to forgive yourself.”
“We have all eaten of the fruit of life, not knowing we have swallowed its death-seeds. The seeds sprout into weeds tall as trees, choking. Smothered or not by distraction or belief, this we share: death as a shared feast, suffering as our communal drink.”
Source: The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language
“We have all embraced technology. It makes our lives easier and more comfortable. Unfortunately, it has harmed nature in may different ways. It has worked against nature and the environment that we live in.
Imagine if technology was built and used in a way that both simulated and augmented nature so as not to impair it.
Imagine if we could use the colors of the rainbow to grow plant life.
Harvest the wind as a natural energy source without the use of wind turbines as they now are.
Re-growing arid areas with a flowable water system that reforested the world.
We had a company that put money into development and life instead of putting money into shareholder's pockets.
It may come true...one day.”
“We have all eternity to celebrate the victories but only a few hours before sunset to win them.”
“We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.. moments like these are not the passive, receptive, relaxing timesthe best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”
“We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.”
“We have all forgot more than we remember.”
“We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.”
Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“We have all grown wiser.”
“We have all had injustice happen to us. It often shapes our failure narrative. For example, maybe you were fired and not you don't trust colleagues as easily in the future. You may not overcome injustice but you need to be aware of how it affects you today. You can't avoid injustice but that doesn't mean you need to be a prisoner of it.”
“We have all had serendipitous moments - the most unlikely meetings out of nowhere - that can happen when we have this quality of deep acceptance towards ourselves.”
“We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.”
“We have all had times...when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there. ...[I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God.”
“We have all heard of how Dr Guillotine was executed by the instrument he invented—'
'He was not.'
'Well, he ought to have been.”
“We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.”
“We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings
“We have all heard the phrase "information is power" and in the world of social media, information is abundant. I started thinking...we are some well informed peopled on a myriad of topics but is it the information that is power or is the true power in what we do with the information? I think information is a tool and sometimes that tool falls into hands that have no clue how to use it; rendering it powerless.”
“We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.”
Source: Lectures to My Students
“We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!”
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. it is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It's how we learn. We breathe love. It's how we learn. And it is inevitable.”
“We have all in some degree become anarchistic.”
“We have all just gone through over 110 days of dark despair and tibulation that earth has not seen in many years. We have all lost love ones and dealt with illnesses we never knew existed. But it takes incredibly strong people to be able to stand again and still be able to smile through all their heartbreaking situations. Bravo, I applaud you.”
Source: Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
“We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.”