W Quotes
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“We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.”
“We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.”
“We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.”
Source: Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Run for Weight Loss, Fitness, and Competition
“We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.”
Source: Mister Pip
“We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.”
“We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.”
“We have all made mistakes, each and every one of us. The trick is to not keep making them over and over.” “I don’t,” I said, not modestly but truthfully. “I keep finding new mistakes to make. I suspect that I have a genius for it.”
Source: Poison
“We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.”
“We have all made mistakes."
"Not you, surely."
That elicited a wry smile from him. "Especially me."
Her blue eyes were alert. "What kind of mistakes?"
The question amused him. He liked her for her fearlessness, as well as the layer of vulnerability beneath. "None that you need to know about, Miss Sydney."
She smiled slowly. "Then I remain skeptical as to your having made any."
It was the kind of smile a woman might wear in the sultry aftermath of lovemaking. Very few women possessed such effortless sensuality, a natural warmth that made a man feel like a prize stallion on a stud farm.”
Source: Lady Sophia's Lover
“We have all met a class of men, very remarkable for their activity, and who yet make but little headway in life; men who, in their noisy and impulsive pursuit of knowledge, never get beyond the outer bark of an idea, from a lack of patience and perseverance to dig to the core; men who begin everything and complete nothing; who see, but do not perceive; who read, but forget what they read, and are as if they had not read; who travel but go nowhere in particular, and have nothing of value to impart when they return.”
Source: Self-Made Men
“We have all of us free access to all that is great, and good, and happy, and carry within ourselves a key to all the treasures that heaven has to bestow upon us. We starve in the midst of plenty, groan under infirmities, with the remedy in our own hand; live and die without knowing and feeling anything of the One only God, whilst we have it in our power to know and enjoy it in as great a reality as we know and feel the power of this world over us; for Heaven is as near to our souls as this world is to our bodies; and we are created, we are redeemed, to have our conversation in it.”
Source: Extracts from The spirit of prayer
“We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one ought to let him in to dinner.”
Source: The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
“We have, all of us, more reasons for staying than for marching. What's the point in marching if you are only going to catch up with a very sad tune?”
Source: On Grief And Reason: Essays
“We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!”
Source: Max (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
“We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.”
“We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.”
Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes
“We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.”
Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.”
“We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.”
“We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. So when we are in the mess, remember Jesus made it right. We got to hang on to that by faith.”
“We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“We have all stopped at some point to listen to our heart simply to make sure that we were still alive.”
Source: Life Will Kill You, My Friend
“We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?”
“We have all the answers. It is the questions we do not know.”
“We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom- war on terror and so on-falsifies freedom.”
“We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.”
“We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.”
“We have all the technology to record things in the streets. Now the historians cannot twist it or change it, because we have cellular phones or video cameras, and we are filming in the streets what's going on. We have the voices of everybody recorded. There's too much recording and I think that's wonderful.”
“We have all things and abound; not because I have a good store of money in the bank, not because I have skill and wit with which to win my bread, but because the Lord is my shepherd.”
“We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.”
“We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.”
“We have all this Paleolithic art that suggests that our ancestors really venerated animals and that they depended on wild animals to survive - as opposed to domesticated animals that we depend on. Would it radically change things if we had more rhinos in our midst? I kind of suspect it would.”
“We have all unknowingly entered into agreements or soul contracts in the spirit world which direct our behavior in the present moment.”
Source: 666: Connection with Crowley
“We have all we need to come through. Against all odds, no matter what we've lost, no matter what messes we've made over time, no matter how dark the night, we offer and are offered kindness, soul, light, and food, which create breath and spaciousness, which create hope, sufficient unto the day.”
Source: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
“We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.”
“We have allowed alien plants to replace natives all over the country. Our native animals and plants cannot adapt to this gross and completely unnatural manipulation of their environment in time to negate the consequences. Their only hope for a sustainable future is for us to intervene to right the wrongs that we have perpetrated.”
Source: Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
“We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives.
As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves.
The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development.”
“We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.”
Source: The Course of Love
“We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.”
“We have allowed ourselves very little space for not-knowing. Very seldom do we have the wisdom not-to-know, to lay the mind open to deeper understanding. When confusion occurs in the mind, we identify with it and say we are confused…Confusion arises because we fight against our not-knowing, which experiences each moment afresh without preconceptions or expectations.”
“We have allowed religion and culture to trample on us and leave us with little or no self-esteem.”
Source: I AM A WOMAN I AM A HUMAN: UNLEASHING THE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL OF WOMEN
“We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.”
“We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.”
“We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.”
Source: Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
“We have allowed too much to be taken from us. Girls and women need to rediscover their femininity.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.”
“We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.”
Source: Unpopular Essays