W Quotes
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“We have no time to stand up for ourselves, for we are not being devoted to Christ if we are focused upon being justly dealt with.”
“We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please...
We want books that cost their authors a great deal, books where you can feel the years of work, the backache, the writer's block, the author's panic at the thought that he might be lost: his discouragement, his courage, his anguish, his stubbornness, the risk of failure that he has taken.”
Source: A Novel Bookstore
“We have no true memory of ourselves.”
Source: Shame
“We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.”
“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
“We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”
“We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.”
“We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when we are bound. But not just any way of being bound will suffice; what matters is the character of our binding. The one who would like to be an athlete, but who is unwilling to discipline his body by regular exercise and by abstinence, is not free to excel on the field or the track. His failure to train rigorously and to live abstemiously denies him the freedom to go over the bar at the desired height, or to run with the desired speed and endurance. With one concerted voice the giants of the devotional life apply the same principle to the whole of life with the dictum: Discipline is the price of freedom.”
Source: The New Man for Our Time
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”
Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays
“We have not always been forced to pass, to go underground, in order to work and live. We have a right to live openly and proudly...when our lives are suppressed, everyone is denied an understanding of the rich diversity of sex and gender expression and experience that exist in human society.”
Source: Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
“We have not always been in sync on every issue in terms of our core values, in terms of her integrity, her truthfulness, her thoughtfulness, [Angela Merkel] doing her homework, knowing her facts, her commitment to looking out for the interests of the German people first, but recognizing that part of good leadership on behalf of the nation requires engaging the world as a whole, and participating effectively in multilaterally institutions, I think she's been outstanding.”
“We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.”
Source: Beauties of Massinger
“We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.”
Source: The Void
“We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.”
“We have not been given the highest seat of authority to live ordinary.”
“we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.”
Source: American diary, 1898
“We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very dark and dreary world.”
“We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.”
“We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.”
“We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting.”
“We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.”
“We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.”
“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.”
Source: Form and actuality
“We have not come [here] for fame; we have come [here] for the salvation of others.”
“We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy.”
“We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.”
“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”
“We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.”
“We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.”
“We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.”
“We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups, the groups that are operating now in Iraq, and now we have a third tier of threat amongst the Muslims that live in the West and who are inspired to do something against the West by the example of the other two tiers.”
“We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe - and would benefit the vast majority - are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.”
“We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it.”
“We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.”
“We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.”
“We have not erased history; we are becoming part of the city's history by righting the wrong image these monuments represent and crafting a better, more complete future for all our children and for future generations.”
“We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.”
“We have (not free but) caged will.”
“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous.”
“We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.”
“We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.”
“We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.”
“We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?”
Source: The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
“We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol III: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].”
“We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.”