W Quotes
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“We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be bent to your will. But actually isn't it much more interesting to imagine that you're quite small?”
“We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.”
“We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.”
“We have been trying to point out that this concept of an indefinitely favorable future is dangerous, even if it is true; because even if it is true you can easily overvalue the security, since you make it worth anything you want it to be worth. Beyond this, it is particularly dangerous too, because sometimes your ideas of the future turn out to be wrong. Then you have paid an awful lot for a future that isn't there. Your position then is pretty bad.”
Source: Current problems in security analysis
“We have been underserved, underprivileged and unfortunate for far too long. There are no more excuses. It's not enough to have limited progress and allow our expectations and sense of purpose to evaporate. So, if that means we must sacrifice some nights at the club and give up buying the latest designer handbags and sneakers... well then damn, so be it.”
“We have been very clear that Israel has an undeniable right to self-defense and that the rockets that it has faced coming out of Gaza incessantly, the tunnels that are legion and are being used to infiltrate into Israel are very legitimate security concerns, for which they have an obligation - against which they have an obligation to act.”
“We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.”
“We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the self - an undiluted hedonism and narcissism. That has become a very effective way to divert our attention while the country is reconfigured into a kind of neofeudalism, with a rapacious oligarchic elite and an anemic government that no longer is able to intercede on behalf of citizens but cravenly serves the interests of the oligarchy itself.”
“We have been warned frequently about the dangers of science without ethics, but history without ethics poses a similar threat. Too often are events suffered in the past remembered only to justify evils done in the present.”
“We have been winning running barefoot, imagine what would happen if we had spikes, a nutritionist and a coach we would break records.”
“We have been witnessing a rebirth of psychedelic research since the early 2000s. Due to the fact we are in what many people call the Psychedelic Renaissance, one cannot help but draw comparisons to the European Renaissance that spanned the 15th and 16th centuries. An equally significant age, one that started around the same time and lasted another century or so, was the Age of Discovery. If we are in a Psychedelic Renaissance, and keeping in mind that history regularly repeats itself, it would be reasonable to assume that a parallel set of activities with matching enthusiasm will happen, what I call the Psychedelic Age of Discovery.”
Source: RISE OF THE PSYCHONAUT: Maps for Amateurs, Nonscientists and Explorers in the Psychedelic Age of Discovery
“We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.”
“We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.”
“We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.”
“We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In circumstances like these, solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling.”
Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion
“We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose.”
“We have begun to experience a reciprocal pleasure in each other’s company, have we not? Come, come, Mehak! Accept it. Sages have said, “Love and musk cannot remain concealed.” You are as enamored of me as I am. Why don’t we get married?”
Source: The Thugs & a Courtesan
“We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact. We are picking up chocolate chips for days. Jon throws a glass of milk, the milk, not the glass: he knows his own strength, as I do not. He throws a box of Cheerios, unopened. The things I throw miss, although they are worse things. The things he throws hit, but are harmless. I begin to see how the line is crossed, between histrionics and murder.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible”
Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti
“We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system.”
“We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.”
“We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.”
“We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.”
Source: Killosophy
“We have between 60,000- and 80,000 thoughts a day. That’s a thought every 1.2 seconds…but we are not our thoughts – we have thoughts. Just like a cell phone is not our texts…it receives texts but they are not the phone. You have thoughts but you are not your thoughts.”
Source: Secrets of Meditation: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation
“We have big department stores like Bloomingdale’s and Saks Fifth Avenue. It’s like this place ate those stores and a carnival. Is there anything it doesn’t have?”
Source: Lost in London
“We have big dreams - sometimes scary, unforgettable dreams that repeat on the same date every year and are shared by every person in town - but we make those big dreams come true. Remember the clock tower? It took eight years and $23 million to build, and despite its invisibility and constant teleportation, it is a lovely structure that keeps impeccable time.”
Source: Mostly Void, Partially Stars
“We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“We have blacks and whites, Jews and Arabs, Serbs and Croats, and Filipinos and Vietnamese here. At the end of the day, everyone is each other's brother.”
“We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.”
“We have bodies coming home and coffins covered in flags, not just in the UK but world-wide.”
“We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.”
“We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.”
“We have both a weak self and a strong self; the two are completely different. If we allow our weak side to dominate, we will be defeated. The thought ,"I am still young and have a lot of time, so I can relax and take life easy" is a function of our own weakness.”
“We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.”
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.”
“We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“We have bound each human being’s destiny to his neck. On the Day of Resurrection, We shall bring out a record for each of them, which they will find spread wide open, ‘Read your record. Today your own soul is enough to calculate your account.’ [17:13]”
“We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.”
“We have brands spending ungodly amounts of money on print, television, outdoor radio, programmatic banner ads, website takeovers. Garbage. When I say garbage, they work-ish. They're just so overpriced. I don't know what else to say. I do not believe that it is worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars in distribution and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost to make one 30-second video to tell a 29-year-old woman that your soap is great, in a world where she is not going to consume that commercial.”
“We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.”
“We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.”
“We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.”
“We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.”
“We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.”
“We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason”
“We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.”
“We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.”
“We have built and now are training our obsolescence, we are training AI to effectively take away our jobs, infiltrate the way we educate our future generations and eventually, from where we stand now who knows what eventually, but if evolution has taught us anything it has taught us that survival is for the fittest.”
“We have built cities that scrape the sky, machines that think and a global network that allows people to yell at each other at any time of the day, from any part of the world. But when it comes to the question of whether we should keep our own planet habitable, humans remain curiously undecided”
Source: Nature's Last Dance: Tales of Wonder in an Age of Extinction