W Quotes
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“We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things
“we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.”
Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye
“We know that out of that bleak rectory in Yorkshire came Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and all the richly imaginative works of the Brontë sisters... To me, a famous writer's house is irresistable. The more ordinary the scene, in fact, the more I succumb to sensation, wonder and awe.”
Source: The Informed Air: Essays
“We know that over a thousand campaign groups have been spied upon by these political undercover policing units. This represents a significant interference with the right to political freedom of thought and the right to protest. Ultimately it is a means for those who hold power to preserve the status quo and prevent social change.”
“We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation.”
“We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.”
“We know that people who work without breaks get tired, introduce errors, get sick and miss out on life. Make no mistake: those staff room hammocks are designed to keep you in them on the weekend.”
“We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.”
“We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.”
“We know that positive thoughts brings positive results. In India how many people knows it? How many are carrying it ? Otherwise there is no quarrel, fights, arguments, etc. I think this is the name of human beings. Do you agree or it?”
“We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.”
“We know that President Obama and his accomplishments, that there's a lot of unfinished business there.”
“We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.”
“We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994
“We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.”
“We know that Rangi can at least mutter because Digger Gibson says he used to talk to the bear. In his group home for orphaned Moa boys, Rangi had a pet cinnamon bear. I saw her once. She was just a wet-nosed cub, a cuff of pure white around her neck. Rangi found her on the banks of the Waitiki River and walked her around on a leash. He filed her claws and fed her tiny, smelly fishes. They shot her the day his new father, Digger, came to pick him up.
"Burying that bear," I overheard Digger tell Mr. Oamaru once. "The first thing we ever did together as father and son."
Rangi's given us this global silent treatment ever since, a silence he extends to people, animals, ice.”
Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“We know that relatively minor sea-level rises could set off major ice-sheet breakups, and it has been suggested by Stephen Oppenheimer that the tremendous earthquakes caused by isostatic rebalancing at the end of the Ice Age could have stirred up 'mountain-topping superwaves' in the northern regions of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Other than Oppenheimer's own investigations, however, my impression is that while many brilliant individual scientists have studied individual post-glacial phenomena in great depth, very little has yet been done to investigate all these phenomena together as part of a complex system or to consider the effects on the earth and its human population of multiple, interacting cataclysms -- floods, lands subsiding into the sea, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions -- all occurring at the same time.”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“We know that Russia has done things that are very much against our interests. They've done things that require us to take punitive action against Russia. That does not mean we can't work with Russia where we have a common agenda. Russia is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council; we need their help in isolating North Korea and their nuclear weapons violations. So, we still need to work with Russia. But Russia's done things that are contrary to our national security interest, and the US must respond to those types of activities.”
“We know that Russia was involved in hacking our democracy. We know that the evidence or information is sufficient to warrant an FBI investigation of this. We are trying to do as much of this as we can in the public eye transparently. Obviously, some of it will have to be done in closed session.”
“We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.”
“We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.”
“We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.”
“We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities.”
“We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.”
“We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.”
“We know that service is indispensable for bringing us close to the Savior and letting us feel his Spirit. In nothing do we resemble the Savior more than in serving others. So in nothing should we feel greater love and joy than in service.”
Source: Aloha!
“We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.”
“We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.”
“We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.”
“We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.”
“We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?”
Source: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
“We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.”
“We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'”
“We know that the African regimes, many African regimes have failed their people and many Africans want regime change, and there are a lot of African leaders who make promises but don't carry them out. I mean, the progress - I mean, it is noble for the rich countries to help Africa, but then the question is: What are African leaders themselves doing to help their own people?”
“We know that the Bible is God’s word without error because God reveals that it’s the word of God without error.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.”
Source: Apospasmatia Sacra, Or A Collection of Posthumous and Orphan Lectures
“We know that the church is God’s earthly body of flesh, which is to manifest or reveal Jesus to the people of this earth. It is God’s instrument of Gospel propagation throughout the world.”
Source: The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition
“We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”
“We know that the destruction of an ideal does not necessarily produce a truth, but only one more piece of ignorance; it is the extension of our ‘empty space,’ an increase in our ‘waste.”
Source: The Will to Power
“We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.”
“we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.”
Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“We know that the governments in most of the successor states formed after the collapse of the Soviet Union are replaced through a process of regular elections.”
“We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.”
“We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.”
“We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.”
“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
“We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.”
“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.”
“We know that the only way to achieve equality is if both men and women want to achieve equality. We also know that equality is not just the right thing to do for men, it is a good thing to do.”