W Quotes
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“We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.”
“We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.”
Source: The Irrational Season
“we have much to blush for in the acts of our ancestors… We must accept the capitalistic stage in social evolution as about on a par with the earlier monkey stage. The human had to pass through those stages in its rise from the mire and slime of low organic life. It was inevitable that much of the mire and slime should cling and be not easily shaken off.”
Source: The Iron Heel
“We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.”
“We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience.”
Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide
“We have much to hope from the flowers.”
“We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.”
“We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.”
“We have multi-generations coming to our show.”
“We have multiple Black men and women losing their lives simply for being. Who gets to say you don't get to live anymore? I don't understand that. And it doesn't stop there. Can we go into the school system and look at the imbalance of what our children are learning? We are functioning crazy, people.”
“We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.”
“We have names for everything. What if we forgot about those names? And we stopped seeing things as something? What if we just observed things, watched things, without giving them a name, without coming to a conclusion? What do you think would happen? You would transcend everything.”
“We have national security concerns. There are lots of concerns which must be addressed by actually securing our border. And so, a physical security barrier on the border is something we`ve all - I voted for it, like I said, in 2006 or 2007.”
“We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.”
“We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.”
Source: The ladies and the mammies: Jane Austen & Jean Rhys
“We have negative mental habits that come up over and over again. One of the most significant negative habits we should be aware of is that of constantly allowing our mind to run off into the future. Perhaps we got this from our parents. Carried away by our worries, we're unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can't really be happy just yet—that we still have a few more boxes to be checked off before we can really enjoy life. We speculate, dream, strategize, and plan for these "conditions of happiness" we want to have in the future; and we continually chase after that future, even while we sleep. We may have fears about the future because we don't know how it's going to turn out, and these worries and anxieties keep us from enjoying being here now.”
Source: Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives
“We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.”
Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)
“We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.”
“We have never been big smokers, neither Cheech [Marine] nor I. We were too creative, and we had a lot to do. We are actors and to be honest, I am the type of person that can reference a thought or a smell and get high.”
“We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.”
“We have never been respectable yet; don't let's begin now.”
Source: The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton
“We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.”
“We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.”
“We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is different from the belief that we are now being visited by extraterrestrial beings in spacecraft, that they are abducting people, and the there is a vast government cover-up.”
Source: Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm
“We have never done anything in a cynical fake way”
Source: Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection
“We have never, ever, ever, ever, failed in America when we have acted together.”
“We have never found, and I think we never shall find, an adequate substitute for the situation in which two wholesome young men meet with a family, reason with them, teach them, testify to them, and pray with them. We shall always need missionaries.”
“We have never had class-based parties. We've had parties run by the business classes. There's slight variations. Like in the New Deal period, there was a lot of popular activism, so things shifted slightly, but not much.”
“We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get.”
“We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy.”
“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
“We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970, and we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.”
“We have never in the history of humanity had an opportunity like we do now to be free of endosocial extremism.”
Source: The Creation of Me, Them and Us
“We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the outcome of the election, and, believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected. They're doing it to try to influence the election for Donald Trump. Now, maybe because he has praised Putin, maybe because he says he agrees with a lot of what Putin wants to do, maybe because he wants to do business in Moscow, I don't know the reasons.”
“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.”
“We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.”
“We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.”
“We have never met anyone like anyone.”
“We have never observed or experienced anything objectively. We have always had some sort of outside influence or preconception. If nothing else, we had the impulses of our emotions that drove us and kept us from seeing reality as it really is. And we have always added unreality to our worldviews. That unreality came from our imaginations and became the fake inner reality each of us calls “our worldview.” As insane as it may be, some even call it their “own reality.”
“We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.”
“We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.”
“We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.”
“We have never said that the fight against the Iranian aggression and against the expansionist Persian tendencies (which have been demonstrated by various means under successive regimes in Iran) is the decisive battle for the Arabs. What we have said, and still say, is that the fight against Zionism is the main decisive battle for the Arabs. This is a great objective reality, which cannot be denied or underestimated except by someone who would not only harm the Arab nation and its main causes, but would also overlook the main danger.”
“We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.”
“We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.”
“We have never solved the mystery of ice ages in the tropics, nor the equally strange mystery of the growth of corals and warm-climate flora in the polar zones.
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It became obvious to me, as I reviewed these problems, and went back over the controversies that had marked their consideration, that a sort of common denominator was present. [...] [S]omebody usually tried to explain the particular problem in terms of changes in the position of the poles. This, I found, was the common denominator. The authors of such theories, unfortunately, were never able to prove their assumptions. The opponents of the notion of polar change always managed to point out fallacies that seemed decisive. At the same time, no one was able to reconcile all the evidence in the different fields with the idea that the poles have always been situated where they are now on the earth's surface.
The theory here presented would solve these problems by supposing changes in the positions of the poles. Campbell has suggested that the changes have occurred not by reason of changes in the position of the earth's axis, but simply through a sliding of its crust.”
Source: Earth's Shifting Crust: A Key To Some Basic Problems Of Earth Science
“We have never stayed home long enough to experience the truth about ourselves.”
Source: Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln
“We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959