W Quotes
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“We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.”
“We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.”
Source: The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel
“We have one asset, and that's people.”
“We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.”
“We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.”
“We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.”
“We have one hundred percent chance of achieving what God has called us to, even if we are starting from scratch”
“We have one life / It soon will be past / What we do for God / Is all that will last.”
“We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.”
“We have one life, THIS life. It is this limited lifetime that you have to make the most of. Live it! Embrace it, don’t waste it. Listen with intention to what that inner voice has been telling you. Draw, write, travel, build, teach, inspire, learn and create because THAT’s living. Feel your life with joy and passion for what you bring to it. Your talents are meant to be embraced and shared. It makes us better.”
“We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.”
“We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.”
“We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.”
“We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care.”
“We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.”
Source: High Fidelity
“We have one powerful observer's lens that allows us to see all possible perspectives of ourselves simultaneously, and losing just one perspective means we may lose everything. An integrative way of existing is much better than walking around as broken parts of oneself in this reality. The task is to discover all possible perspectives, achieve integrity among them, and recognize when someone is trying to break it. Continuous well-being is achieved only through continuous integration.”
“We have one real candidate for changing the rules; this is string theory. In string theory the one-dimensional trajectory of a particle in spacetime is replaced by a two-dimensional orbit of a string. Such strings can be of any size, but under ordinary circumstances they are quite tiny, ... a value determined by comparing the predictions of the theory for Newton's constant and the fine structure constant to experimental values.”
“We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.”
“We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.”
“We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!”
“We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity the light of being humane.”
“We have one world. We have one chance; to be a united force of positive strength, to feed humanity the light of being humane." Jessica Edouard”
“We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.”
Source: The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus [and] Antigone
“We have only God on our side; they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.”
“We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort - other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. It’s far better when doing the work itself is sufficient. When fulfilling our own internal standards is what fills us with pride and self-respect. The less attached we are to the outcomes, the better. Our ego wants recognition & compensation. We have expectations. Let the effort, not the results be enough. Maybe your parents/kids/partner/etc won’t be impressed. We can’t let THAT be what motivates us. We can change the definition of success to: ‘peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.’ With this definition we decide not to let externals determine if something is worth doing. It’s on us.”
Source: Ego Is the Enemy
“We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.”
“We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.”
Source: The Future of Industrial Man
“We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.”
“We have only one heart. So, we must not give it to anyone!”
“WE HAVE ONLY ONE LIFE AND THE SECOND LIFE BEGINS WHEN WE REALIZE TO LIVE IT”
“We have only one real shot at "liberation", and that is to emancipate ourselves from within. It is the thesis of this book that personal, psychological dependency - the deep wish to be taken care of by others - is the chief force holding women down today. I call this "The Cinderella Complex" - a network of largely repressed attitudes and fears that keeps women in a kind of half-light, retreating from the full use of their minds and creativity. Like Cinderella, women today are still waiting for something external to transform their lives.”
Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
“We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.”
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.”
Source: East of Eden
“We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.”
Source: Beyond All Pity
“We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.”
“We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.”
“We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.”
Source: The works of William Makepeace Thackeray
“We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult.”
Source: An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,
“we have only to remember that disease happens to man in order not to lose all hope.”
Source: The Normal and the Pathological
“We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"”
Source: God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?
“We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear the call God makes to us to work with him. Quite often it is not a matter of doing something different, but doing it differently.”
“We have only today. Let us begin”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers
“We have only two modes - complacency and panic.”
“We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“We have opted for petty determinisms - childhood trauma, genetic inheritance, social conditioning, etc. - that have made us comparatively passive. We seem to prefer to find excuses - which are really nothing more than the embrace of determinism, a sort of Stockholm syndrome relative to whatever we can claim as limitation. I am fascinated by the more enabling self-understanding. It has helped me to find my way out of the cloying comforts that are offered by prevalent psychological models.”
“We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.”
“We have ordered things so long in a certain way, we are numb. Nobody dares question it. This is what is wrong, symbolically, with America.”
“We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.”
“We have orphans, I know," pursued Mr Milvey, quite with the air as if he might have added, "in stock," and quite as anxiously as if there were great competition in the business and he were afraid of losing an order, "over at the clay-pits; but they are employed by relations or friends, and I am afraid it would come at last to a transaction in the way of barter.”
Source: Our Mutual Friend