W Quotes
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“We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.”
Source: Wired: Student Edition of The Air I Breathe
“We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones”
“We may say with truth and meaning, that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights and especially that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.”
“We may say, that not only the soul (the mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself is, although its mechanism is frequently destroyed in parts.”
“We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.”
Source: Deontology: or, The science of morality: in which the harmony and co-incidence of duty and self-interest, virtue and felicity, prudence and benevolence, are explained and exemplified
“We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod,
But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.”
“We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, " If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him.”
“We may see a nuclear war before we die.”
“We may see a nuclear war before we die. It is only a matter of time before a nuclear bomb is detonated in war. Wiping a warring city off the map with one bomb would be a clear statement to the world, as it was in 1945.”
“We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.”
“We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.”
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to."
[Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727]”
Source: The Prose Works of Alexander Pope: The Major Works 1725-1744, Vol. II
“We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
“We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy
“We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.”
“We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.”
“We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.”
“We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.”
“We may set foot on another's path, but we will never have the same road map as they do.”
“We may share an ability, you and I, but that does not make us equals.”
Source: A Darker Shade of Magic
“We may shine, we may shatter,
We may be picking up the pieces here on after,
We are fragile, we are human,
And we are shaped by the light we let through us,
We break fast, cause we are glass.
We are glass.”
“We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.”
“We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence.”
Source: Holy Spirit Are We Flammable or Fireproof?
“We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.”
Source: Prevailing Prayer
“We may sing, 'Crown Him Lord of all,' and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.”
“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
“We may sleep together,
but my dreams are my own.”
Source: Sorry I Haven't Texted You Back
“We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.”
“We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.”
Source: Speeches and Public Letters
“We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.”
“We may sometimes witness conversations at cross purposes and see how people hold muted dialogues of the deaf. They keep talking without really recognizing what the other is trying to bring home. Why should we not more engage in discussions with animals, promising much better results? Animals often appear to be much wiser, reasonable observers, and excellent listeners. (Let us say more and speak less)-Erik Pevernagie”
“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.”
“We may spark something or set something in motion in another person's life by something we've done. Perhaps in a car accident we injure someone. Perhaps as a manager, we fire someone. There are a lot of things that could precipitate something negative in another person's life. But does that make us responsible for everything that follows from it? Is there a statute of limitations?”
“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”
Source: When God Whispers Your Name
“We may speak different languages, but music is a language we all understand.”
“We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.”
“We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“We may start a journey with no batons to carry or pass, but we create them with the strength of our bones. Once they are ready to be birthed, we create our own batons, not only to pass but to first honour and nurture the marrow for it not to be easily broken. Not that it cannot be broken but to instill it with the spirit of sunrise for every sunset. Then we can pass the baton.”
“We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.”
“We may still insist that space, although mainly emptiness, is completely “contaminated” by all the forces in the Universe—particles, waves, and so on. Still, based on this deduction or inference, we cannot prove that what is curved is space since nothing remains nothing and cannot be transformed into something based on the laws of physics. If the Nothing does not convert into something, the curvature of space is impossible. To prove the curvature of nothing (space), we must prove that nothing can transform itself into something based on the laws of physics.
Suppose we further insist that this is only a problem of linguistics and philosophy and not physics since we stated that space is how we define it and not as it is. This reasoning would be insufficient because we must first prove that actual space is what it is and not what we say it is to fit our arguments. There can be no answers to the most critical questions of contemporary science, physics, philosophy, and even religions if we are not as precise as possible, linguistically, experimentally, or in any other way. These questions appear to be self-evident, self-explanatory truths and axioms, yet they are neither self-evident nor clear and precise to reflect the actual underlying reality. If we are not as precise as possible, we create theories and paradigms presented as facts, although the starting premises are undefined and unanswered. However, if we do not answer the starting causes and premises, we cannot adequately describe the laws of nature, nor can we understand them.
Regardless of how sure we are about space and the curvature of space, we still cannot claim we are correct without describing the nature of nothing. Without the Nothing, there can be no space. There will be an immediate argument, though, that the Nothing has no nature and, therefore, there is nothing to describe. The answer is that its passivity and lack of properties are its most potent “property” because they enable creation and existence. Without the Nothing or void, there is no creation and no existence.
We converted nothing into something by our thoughts and language, using deduction or inference, and concluded that space is the consequence of this thought process, not the actual process. We applied our definite language to our indefinite “understanding,” ideas, or reasoning to prove the “fact.” However, the fact is or is not, regardless of our ideas, language, or reasoning.
We must use the opposite and apply language to the facts rather than our understanding. Our understanding is limited, and facts are impersonal and independent of our knowledge. We cannot falsify the language to fit and understand the facts better. We cannot change facts or affect them with our ideas, but facts are verifiable up to a point. There are facts beyond the verifiable point by humans since human beings are limited. Still, language is verifiable, and our theories are both falsifiable and verifiable to a large extent.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“We may stop lovin' to watch Bugs Bunny, but he can't take the place of my honey.”
“We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.”
“We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.”
Source: Collected Works
“We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.”
Source: The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition
“We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.”
“We may switch presidents, but we`re just going to switch legs and keep on marching.”
“We may take as our guide, here, John Dewey's observation that the content of a lesson is the least important thing about learning. As he wrote in Experience and Education, "Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only what he is studying at the time. Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes may be and often is more important than the spelling lesson, or the lesson in geography or history. For these attitudes are fundamentally what count in the future." In other words, the most important thing one learns is always something about *how* one learns. As Dewey wrote in another place, "We learn what we do.”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.”