W Quotes
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“We inhabit a language rather than a country.”
“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.”
Source: God Is Not A Christian
“We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself”
Source: Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind
“We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.”
“We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were astonished every day.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.”
“We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small.”
“We inherit a lot from our parents: mom's eyes, dad's chin, and the attitude of whichever parent isn't punishing you at the moment. All of those things we have our mom's to thank for."If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"”
“We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms--a hundred trillion or more. They are bacteria, mostly, but also viruses and fungi (including a variety of yeasts), and they come at us from all directions: other people, food, furniture, clothing, cars, buildings, trees, pets, even the air we breathe. They congregate in our digestive systems and our mouths, fill the space between our teeth, cover our skin, and line our throats. We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; those cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds--the same as our brain. Together, they are referred to as our microbiome--and they play such a crucial role in our lives that scientists like [Martin J.] Blaser have begun to reconsider what it means to be human.”
“We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.”
Source: The Ball
“We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.”
“We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.”
Source: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
“We inherited a world full of unfinished stories. Whether we silence them or continue them—that’s the choice.”
“We inherited gods that look nothing like us, speak nothing of us, and still call it truth.”
“We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'.”
“We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We injure ourselves by wishing; continous inaction cripples the soul.”
“We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.”
“We inquire when we're curious, and we're curious when we care.”
Source: Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life
“We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.”
“We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.”
“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972
“We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.”
Source: Transforming Grace: Living Confidently in God's Unfailing Love
“We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.”
“We insist, it seems, on living.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“We inspire each other. Poets and Artists are best friends and muses for each other.”
“We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!”
“We instinctively fear snakes, but we appear not to be afraid of fast cars, which are a real danger now. This suggests our emotions were shaped by our evolutionary environment not the one we grew up in.”
“We instinctively feel an overwhelming desire to take sides: organic or conventional, fair or free trade, "pure" or genetically engineered food, wild or farm-raised fish. Like most things in life, though, the sensible answer lies somewhere between the extremes, somewhere in that dull but respectable placed called the pragmatic center. To be a centrist when it comes to food is, unfortunately, to be a radical.”
Source: Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly
“We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.”
Source: Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just
“We integrate the good wherever we find it.”
“We intellectuals, instead of fighting against this tendency like men, and rendering obedience to the spirit, the Logos, the Word, and gaining a hearing for it, are all dreaming of a speech without words that utters inexpressible and gives form to the formless.”
“We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.”
“We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.”
Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
“We intend to do is invite Barack Obama and the American administration and the general public to think about Islam as an alternative really, we believe that the problems in the world today aren't necessarily because of people and they need to go back to the divine law and so ours is a call to go back to the divine law and implement Islam.”
“We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.”
“We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.”
“We intend to leave it without further discussion. We respect this request by the government of Uzbekistan”
“We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.”
“We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.”
“We intentionally call out "dominant culture" in this historical summary because both social work and librarianship upheld the values of the dominant culture, prioritizing them over the values, people, and ideas of other cultures also present during these times. Early efforts in both professions improved countless lives but did so from a moralistic and narrow belief about the "best way" to live. Both social work and librarianship currently engage in significant discussion on how to over come these legacies but have yet to find effective solutions that permanently shift our deeply ingrained professional cultures.”
“We intentionally didn't want to release anything when we were very young, I suppose, because we had a lot of foresight. Stuff can come back to bite you in the ass. Know what I mean?”
“We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote'd voire. You can stay in Senegal and inspire people in China and vice versa.”
“We inter-breath with the rain forests, we drink from the oceans. They are part of our own body.”
“We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.”
“We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.”
“We internalize not only living people, but characters who come alive in our reading and viewing.”