W Quotes
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“We have never tried to do most of the things we are dead sure we cannot do.”
“We have never understood how birds manage to fly,
Nor who the genius is who makes up dreams,
Now how heaven and earth can appear in a poem.”
Source: Talking into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems
“We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.”
“We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.”
“We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.”
“We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.”
“We have new media, new forms of connectivity, and an enormous transference of knowledge. When you study evolution, you see that when new genes meet and multiply, they create new contexts and new species. In a sense, the gene-pool of knowledge and of people connecting at all levels is literally spawning a kind of mind-pool of possibilities.”
“We have new technology that allows us... After we've blocked it, all the actors usually run over to the monitor and we can see the hallways and what's there. But I find it difficult, because you're in such a large room and you feel so small and inadequate. There's so much space around you and actors always want a prop or something just to make it comfortable.”
“We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.”
“We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“We have Nigel Slater to thank for some of the horniest food content. Marie Claire magazine, for which Slater was hired to write the recipes, published a cookbook in 1992. The food photographs, by Jean-Louis Bloch-Lainé and Kevin Summers, catch the food in moments of déshabillé: mussels coaxed open, crust of a cheesy gratin broken by a spoon, juices dripping down a figgy pudding. It was, as Slater put it in the introduction, 'the decision to abandon those props, those traditional scene-setters, and the avoidance of styling and tweaking the food to look good for the camera.' It was the same at the Observer, where Nigel Slater moved in the early nineties, with Kevin Summers and then Jonathan Lovekin photographing the food. Everything is burst, collapsed, juicy, swollen or sizzling, and indecently close up. This new kind of photo was composed to make the food look not beautiful, as such, but craveable. It's strange now to think that recipes weren't always supposed to be thirst traps. But the most consequential parts of food culture are often the things like this-- things that seem so obvious, so unquestionable, that it never occurs to us that they could be done another way.”
Source: All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
“We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was. It's Darwinian.”
“We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.”
“We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.”
“We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for one reason only; not because it's good, we know that it is bad, but because there isn't any other. Whilst waiting to find something better you are taught something which is known to be inexact.”
“We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.”
Source: I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr
“We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.”
“We have no authoritative figure, no Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow whom we all listen to and trust to sort out contradictory claims. Instead, the media is splintered into a thousand fragments, each with its own version of reality, each claiming the loyalty of a splintered nation.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.”
“We have no basis to conclude she [Hillary Clinton] lied to the FBI.”
“We have no business with people's colours; we are only interested in people's minds, in people's thoughts! Same mind means same colour; same understanding means same colour; same way of look at things means same colour!”
“We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.”
“We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.”
Source: Arch-Bishop Tillotson's: Several Discourfes
“We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.”
Source: J. B.
“We have no choice but wonder in the wilderness.”
“We have no choice, we must all die. How we live, however, is entirely of our choosing.”
“We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.”
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity
“We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all our sins. I believe he cuts us all out abundance of work.”
“We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.”
“We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works
“We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people”
“We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.”
“We have no control over outcomes, but we can control the process. Of course, outcomes matter, but by focusing our attention on process, we maximize our chances of good outcomes.”
“We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.”
“We have no control ultimately over what happens TO us, but we certainly have everything to do with what happens IN us because of what happens TO us. We must be more intimate with a mirror more than a projector. The reason why things don’t change for us is simply because we are not motivated to personally change. If we want things to get better in our sales, we must get better. That is the bottom line.”
“We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.”
Source: Jimmy Carter
“We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.”
Source: Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition
“We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.”
“We have no destiny assigned us:
Nothing is certain but the body; we plan
To better ourselves; the hospitals alone remind us
Of the equality of man.”
Source: Selected poems
“We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner”
Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“We have no enemies outside. As spiritual seekers, we have to fight against our own mind, which is what defeats us over and over again, and we have to conquer it.”
“We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.”
“We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.”
Source: On the Soul
“We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.”
“We have no filter for music, but we feel it when what's being spoken and sung is telling a story and evidencing a character.”
“We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.”
“We have no functioning parliament in Egypt and months ago Mohammed Morsi assumed legislative functions. Now he's decided that there should be no opposition to the laws that he makes and that he is authorized to pass any national security measure. It is difficult to be more absolutist than that. And the constitutional convention - what a sad gathering; it threatens to send us back to the darkest period of the Middle Ages.”
“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.”
Source: Pattern Recognition