W Quotes
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“We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.”
“We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“we listen to views that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard”
Source: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
“We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.”
“We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.”
“We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.”
“We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.”
“We listen. We listen. We move. We sit. It rains. The sun comes out. (there stands a friend) We listen. We laugh. We share. We sit. We dance. It rains. There stands a friend. We listen. We share. We sit. We dance. The sun comes up. There. I stand, a friend.”
“We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.”
“We listened to Daddy when he said: "when all you got goin' for you is cuteness and then you get bags under your eyes, they forget about you and get someone younger. When all you can do is play basketball and you break your knee, they forget about you and give your place to someone else. But when what you got goin' for you is inside your head, that's something nobody can take away from you. Nobody. Ever. 'Cept by killin' you, and then it don't matter no more 'cause you're dead.”
“We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“We lit candles. Hema fell to her knees, the flame throwing a flickering light on her face. Her lips moved. She believed in every kind of deity, and in reincarnation and resurrection–she knew no contradictions in these areas. How I admired her faith, her lack of self-consciousness—a Hindu lighting candles to a Carmelite nun in a Catholic church.
I knelt, too. I addressed God and sister Mary Joseph Praise and Shiva and Ghosh—all the beings I carried with me in the flesh and in spirit. Thank you for letting me be alive, letting me see this marble dream. I felt a great peace, a sense that coming to this spot had completed the circuit, and now a blocked current would flow and I could rest. If ecstasy meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“We literally are all made out of stardust. We started from those stars; we are made of stardust. So, next time you are really depressed, look in the mirror and you can look and say, hi, I'm looking at a star here.”
“We literally had all 10 teams alive for a playoff position in the final week of the season. That outstanding balance and those close races created a major surge in attendance in the last month of the season.”
“We literally have some of us in the modern culture trying their best to stomp out every other way of life, really. People in tribes are depicted as completely primitive and crazy. The way that we live is very pigheaded and very unaccepting of other ways of life, especially in America.”
“We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.”
“We little know the things for which we pray.”
“We live a dying dream, If you know what I mean...”
“We live a less than life when we remain longer than we should in certain seasons of our lives.”
Source: Chosen Not Cheated: Discover God's Goodness Through Life's Detours, Denials and Doubts
“We live a life bounded by the perception of the self. Existence entails tabulating our personal contact with reality and plumbing the substance of the self. The loftiest task of all is to dream a worthy life and then go live it without fearing the unknown. It is wonderful to live; we must cherish our time by loving other people and adoring nature. We find ourselves through trial and error. We must not allow failure, pain, disappointment, heartache, or sour feelings to daunt us because each of these emotional indexes interprets our dream world intermixing with reality.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.”
“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”
“We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.”
“We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.”
Source: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
“We live a world of greatness and a time of despair. We live in a global village, yet how many people can we truly call “my friend?” Similarly, in our topsy-turvy postmodern world, we may have sex with strangers yet not know the names of our neighbors! We sacrifice intimacy and friendship for fleeting “hook-ups.” We desire physical release and satisfaction without any mental, emotional, or spiritual connection. Instead of whole connectedness, we may consider sex as merely a fleeting and momentary physical release. This is reflective of much in postmodernism. We are drawn to the fleeting over the foundational, to instant gratification over long-term obligations, to self-satisfaction ahead of meeting the needs of others. We want, expect, and desire our wants and needs to be met (often instantly) while often feeling no obligation to respond in kind.”
Source: Postmodern Spirituality in the Age of Entitlement
“We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.”
“We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.”
Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel
“We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.”
“We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.”
“We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.”
“We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them”
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.”
“We live an illusion and since it is only a thought why can we make it Heaven?”
“We live and breathe words.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt-I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted-and then I realized that truly I just wanted you”
“We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“We live and die in the midst of marvels.”
“We live and die; Christ died and lived!”
“We live and enjoy the vitality (virya) of consciousness to the degree in which we are sensitive to the beauty of things around us. Each aesthetic experience, had with mindfulness and a disciplined intention directed towards heightening our general level of aesthetic sensitivity, brings us a little closer to the sustained wonder of the pulsation (spanda) of consciousness which permeates all experience.”
Source: The Doctrine of Vibration: An Analysis of the Doctrines and Practices of Kashmir Shaivism
“We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.”
“We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.”
“We live and the things around us live, through daily care. -Ilsa Crawford”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.”
“We Live and we Learn but we don't always Laugh.”
“We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.”
“We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."”
“We live as emotional transients in a world of isolation. Oh, if I could only borrow back so many wasted moments, but only the arrogant have no regrets; so much is paid for with borrowed time.
The infant road,
the child’s path,
in the rising tide of the day,
is the aged road
the dying path,
in the dusk where mortals play.”
Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness
“We live, as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing, in am age of ideals. If one is more moral, then one's wellbeing will improve. Anyone who is ill or failing can be blamed for their condition, and it would be perverse for the wealthy to help them.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“We live as if life will never end.”