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“We may with advantage at times forget what we know.”
“We may with confidence approach the throne. We may walk in the garden with Him once again.”
Source: Constant Companion: Your Practical Path to Real Interaction with God
“We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering of the former and the decline of the latter. We may wonder that our ancestors over-looked the darker days of those earlier nations. They did not. They hoped to construct a republic on principles to sound that if we should decline in piety and public virtue we would meet the inexorable fate of nations, which are as but dust in the hands of God.”
“We may wonder how the ability to profit from land fosters social dysfunction, but once we realize the extent to which community wealth is privatized for personal gain, we also come to realize just how corrupt most societies actually are. Many social problems exist as a result of how our system misallocates wealth, not as a result of an unalterable human condition.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“We may wonder what is going on in the back of the mind and what betides in the mood of some people who live on the edge of isolation and emotional poverty. They belong to life’s outcasts: deserted by affection, deprived of physical or lingual contact and finally reduced to silence. ("Why didn't he ask ? ")”
“We may wonder what we truly enjoy, what we believe, and where our own edges begin and end. Solitude offers a space to meet yourself again. It is not about isolation or rejection of others. Rather, it is about creating room to hear your own voice above the din of the outside world”
“We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.”
Source: Addresses on Bhakti Yoga: Art of living
“We may writhe in agony from pain
Or laugh out loud when we find happiness
As long as we're alive tomorrow will come
we become stronger and keep on living
We were born to live”
“We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.”
“We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.”
“We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.”
Source: Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers
“We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.”
“We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.”
Source: The Divine Milieu
“We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.”
Source: On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...
“We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.”
Source: John Adams Speaking: Pound's Sources for the Adams Cantos
“We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.”
“We (McDonald's) are not technically in the food business. We are in the real estate business. The only reason we sell fifteen-cent hamburgers is because they are the greatest producer of revenue, from which our tenants can pay us our rent.”
“We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more of other people's children are you willing to sacrifice for the lies' And we're going to say, Shame on you. Shame on you for giving him the authority to invade Iraq.”
Source: Not One More Mother's Child
“We mean to say that Symbolism and Decadence — the negative attitude to which is indisputable to everyone except the "participants" — are genetically connected with everything brilliant and sublime created by the "unbound personality" during this period of time, from the Renaissance up to the development of electrical engineering; contrariwise, the border which they cannot cross is laid down where man understood that he was always "bound." The great continent of history, the continent of real deeds, practical needs, and more than all that, of received religion and the established Church - that is whose shore this stinking monster can never crawl into, that is where we are fleeing to from it, that is where man can always save himself. Where the monastery wall rises this surge of the faithless waves of history — no matter how strong it may become and how far it may spread around — will stop and fall back.
("On Symbolists & Decadence")”
Source: Silver Age of Russian Culture
“We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.”
“We meant to each other The way trophies do: On the day of.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“We meant to temporarily disable her," Ian said. "Just a drop. But Natalie slipped during air turbulence. Before we could warn your nose-ringed nanny, she drenched us. Luckily, she allowed us to retrieve the antidote from our carry-on." "That's kindness," Amy said. "I made them agree to give me all their cash," Nellie explained. "That's bribery," Natalie grumbled.”
“We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances.”
“We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.”
“We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.”
“We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.”
“we measure our lives in brimming cups of tea, / there is a glimmer of the / marvelous hidden in the monotony, / interwoven like stars in the dark & heavy quilt of night / the way it warms our bellies / like the dwindling embers of a fireplace / but without the sting”
Source: living proof: poems and prose
“We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon the line of history; it does not drift upon the winds of story, or float upon the shrouds of myth. We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.”
Source: A Haunting Reverence: Meditations on a Northern Land
“We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some kind of an estimate of the minimum expenditures on food that are required to maintain health, multiplying that number by three, and saying that's the level of poverty. And it's a very crude, inaccurate arrangement.”
“We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.”
“We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.”
Source: Table-talk of John Selden
“We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.”
“We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.”
“We measure time by its deaths, yes, and by its births. For time is told also by life. As some depart, others come. The hand opened in farewell remains open in welcome. I, who once had grandparents and parents, now have children and grandchildren. Like the flowing river that is yet always present, time that is always going is always coming. And time that is told by death and birth is held and redeemed by love, which is always present. Time, then, is told by love’s losses, and by the coming of love, and by love continuing in gratitude for what is lost. It is folded and enfolded and unfolded forever and ever, the love by which the dead are alive and the unborn welcomed into the womb. The great question for the old and the dying, I think, is not if they have loved and been loved enough, but if they have been grateful enough for love received and given, however much. No one who has gratitude is the onliest one. Let us pray to be grateful to the last.”
Source: Andy Catlett: Early Travels (Center Point Premier Fiction (Large Print)) by Berry, Wendell (2007) Hardcover
“We measure time through a mental framework trussed with two major stakes: memory and expectation. Memory is that spottiness that takes place behind the eyes: memory takes place in the cloistered theater that houses diffused still pictures. We file mental pictures that encapsulate our prior life into mental shelves for a wayward librarian to cull through and forward select recollection to the recall center whenever summoned. Expectations arise from thoughtful consideration of our future prospects in life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We measure wealth poorly if we forget the richness of time.”
“We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.”
“We measures our life's worth in our wins but it is the recovery from failures that ultimate indicator.”
“We measures our life's worth in our wins but it is the recovery from failures that ultimately matters.”
“We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less suffering, nd much of our suffering is with other people, then perhaps we need to reexamine our sole commitment to these individual practices... As our individual pracitce deepens, it may yiled true ease. But whether we practice meditation in seclusion or independently alongside other meditators at a meditation group or retreat, individual meditation approaches the confusion and pain of our relational lives only indirectly.”
“We meditate not just to achieve this Divine Oneness, bliss, nirvana or ecstasy, but to continually ascend to higher consciousness to penetrate a higher vision and purpose accompanied by the empowering intelligence and substance of that plane or consciousness we tapped into.”
Source: Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely
“We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.”
“We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.”
“We meet a lot of people, we drink lots of stuff and have lots of fun”
“We meet again, merchant. Your dedication to thwarting my plans would be admirable if it were not so annoying.”
Source: The Ashfire King
“We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.”
Source: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
“We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.”
“We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”
“We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up with a different mate, right? But we never dwell on that. We live our lives in the groups we have - in our cities, our countries, even though we didn't choose them. Know what I mean? We like to tell ourselves it's love, that we're choosing our own partners. But in reality, we're just playing the cards we've been dealt.”
Source: Weasels in the Attic