W Quotes
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“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.”
“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Tempers strain and recover, hearts break and heal, strength falters, fails, and comes near to giving way altogether, every day, without being noted by the closest lookers-on.”
Source: Ramona
“We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.”
“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
“We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple.... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose.”
“We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.”
“We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.”
“We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce.”
“We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“We have for decades now, and I've dealt with the Russians for 35 years, we have from time to time been able to, even though we have different interests, to align them. That alignment has become more and more difficult under Putin. You see that in Ukraine, you see it in the Middle East. To an extent where he actually defines Russian success as thwarting the United States.”
“We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.”
“We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.”
“We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.”
Source: A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus
“We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.”
“We have forgotten how to blush”
“We have forgotten how to sleep with a woman without any smarty-pantsness”
“We have forgotten love, and Sat lonely beside each other. We have eaten together, Lonely behind our plates, we Have hidden behind children, We have slept together in A lonely bed. Now my heart Turns toward you, awake at last, Penitent, lost in the last Loneliness. Speak to me. Talk To me. Break the black silence.”
“We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.”
“We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.”
“We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it”
“We have forgotten that those skills on the more positive side of human nature have to be taught, have to be modeled, have to be practiced.”
“We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.”
“We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.”
Source: Man and His Symbols
“We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.”
“We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.”
“We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now”
Source: Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats
“We have formed a sick little friendship over the past year”
Source: There Once Was A Boy
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
“We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.”
“We have fossils... We win!”
“We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.”
“We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.”
“We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I've come to believe we're integrating into a burning house.”
“We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I've come to believe we're integrating into a burning house.
I'm afraid that America may be losing what moral vision she may have had …. And I'm afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Until we commit ourselves to ensuring that the underclass is given justice and opportunity, we will continue to perpetuate the anger and violence that tears at the soul of this nation.”
“We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.”
“We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.”
“We have found a way to bring to millions of people an art that they can understand.”
“We have found each other for a reason to fill each other’s empty heart in every season!”
Source: Angel of Love Lily: Zak, My Sweet Inspiration
“We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.”
“We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.”
Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.”
Source: The waltz of the toreadors: a play in three acts. Translated by Lucienne Hill
“We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born we are all marked for demise, is already much alive, as is the awareness that the hard nut we must urgently crack is not the presence of "too many poor", but "too many rich".”
“We have found that bats adjust the timing of their sounds when they encounter clutter, and they seem to 'strobe' the world with sound.”
“We have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counter-intuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counter-intuitive course of action.”
“We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."”
“We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.”
“We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained by and logically follow from the fundamental space-time organization of the Cosmic Tree of Life.”
“We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.”
“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the foot-print. And Lo! it is our own.”
“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.”