W Quotes
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“We hurt ourselves much more than others can ever hurt us.”
Source: Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light
“We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.”
“We hurt ourselves when we give our time, the minutes of our life span, to pursuits that don't match our own values.”
“We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.”
Source: The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham
“We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us”
“We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.”
Source: Mend My Broken Heart
“We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.”
“We, I believe, includes Greg's dad, who stands silently next to her, popping three cubes of colby jack into his mouth with the vacant smile of someone who's been dissociated since 1999.”
Source: Love, Theoretically
“We —I mean to say we mammals — who in general do not have problems about obtaining water, have learned to wedge it into the urea molecule, which is soluble in water, and as urea we free ourselves of it; other animals, for whom water is precious (or it was for their distant progenitors), have made the ingenious invention of packaging their nitrogen in the form of uric acid, which is insoluble in water, and of eliminating it as a solid, with no necessity of having recourse to water as a vehicle. In an analogous fashion one thinks today of eliminating urban garbage by pressing it into blocks, which can be carried to the dumps or buried inexpensively.”
Source: The periodic table
“We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.”
“We idealize the transformative life into a life of power, of extraordinary experience, of deep realization. It is none of these things; rather it is a life that is without a trace, a life as it actually is, which is without me.”
“We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”
Source: Paper Towns
“We identified various sectors of the economy, which we said were growth sectors. I have mentioned tourism. We said, for instance, agro-business. We grow a lot of food and fruit and things like that. It must be possible to process those.”
“We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.”
“We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.”
“We identify ourselves as persons, and assume that we endure as persons. As a human being I have a past and a future; as a person I lay claim to that past and that future as mine – as things that originate in me, in this very subject who must account for them. Persons do not form a natural kind, and the concept of personal identity is problematic in a way that the concept of animal identity is not. This we have surely learned from countless thought experiments, from John Locke to Sydney Shoemaker and Derek Parfit.”
Source: Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
“We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.”
“We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.”
Source: My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry
“We ignore friends and family while we struggle to get rich so someone will eventually love us. The voices of civilization fill us with manufactured yearnings and then sell us prepackaged dollops of transitory satisfaction that evaporate on the tongue.”
“We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.”
“We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.”
“We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.”
“We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.”
“We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them.”
Source: The Black Prince
“We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves when we think we understand something, even a computer, merely because we can model or digitize it.”
“We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their own visions … not one that that merely succeeds in making apathetic students satisfy minimal standards.”
“We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.”
Source: All Our Wrong Todays
“We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his demeanorand his ability. It seems to us that they do not stoop from their lofty thrones even to live.”
Source: Complete Essays
“We imagine our paths are freely chosen. But there is a need to account for biology and history, the random intercession of other people, culture, race, and the mystery of the transcendent.”
Source: The Lifer and the Lawyer: A Story of Punishment, Penitence, and Privilege
“We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.”
“We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.”
Source: God's Workmanship
“We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.”
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such postures and perspectives put us in danger of conceptual idolatry, worshiping our ideas of and frameworks for God.”
Source: Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos
“We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We imagine that the voters’ goal is to advocate laws they think will be beneficial to society as a whole, or to meaningful smaller constituencies who need assistance in some way. Voters accomplish this goal by voting for politicians who support the sorts of legislation they favor. We imagine that the politicians’ goal is to do what’s in the best interest of society, and that the way they do this is to design and vote for effective laws of the type the voters want. Finally, we imagine that the bureaucrats’ goal is to serve the public, and the way they do this is by executing the laws passed by legislators to the ends that the legislators intended. This is the way people typically imagine that government works. But none of this comports with what we understand about human behavior.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence”
Source: Buddhism Plain & Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day
“We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.”
“We imagine that we can wait until the doctors tell us that there is nothing more they can do. But rarely is there nothing more that doctors can do. They can give toxic drugs of unknown efficacy, operate to try to remove part of the tumor, put in a feeding tube if a person can’t eat: there’s always something. We want these choices. But that doesn’t mean we are eager to make the choices ourselves. Instead, most often, we make no choice at all. We fall back on the default, and the default is: Do Something. Fix Something. Is there any way out of this?”
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”
“We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”
Source: War and Peace: plus free audiobook
“We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.”
“We imagine what this country is, but quite clearly, this country is a mystery. I mean, one of the reasons I did the election ads is, I thought I could learn something. Like, what the hell is going on? I think anybody - particularly a person of leftist persuasion such as myself - who stops and thinks even for a moment, realizes that something strange is going on and we don't quite get it.”
“We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.”
Source: Just Kids
“We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see, we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.”
“We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.”
“We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.”
“We immortals aren't misers - we don't hoard! Such things are pointless.”
Source: The Penelopiad
“We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.”
Source: Thoughts
“We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.”