W Quotes
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“We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration”
“We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.”
Source: Change of Heart
“We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!”
“We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?”
“We pretend to be strong because we are weak.”
“We pretend to despise communism in our generation, but it will be the dominant order in the near future.”
“We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.”
“We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God.”
“We pretended to be of mud instead of stars. We pretended not to fly.”
Source: The Dream Thief
“We pretty much had crazy weather, historically speaking, in every location we filmed [The Fourth Phase]. Nothing has been normal in the past three years.”
“We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.”
“We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.”
“We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.”
“We pride ourselves on all being unique shows.”
“We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones.”
Source: Simplexity: the simple rules of a complex world
“We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world.”
“We priests are sneered at and always shall be—the accusation is such an easy one—as deeply envious, hypocritical haters of virility. Yet whosoever has experienced sin must know that lust, with its parasitic growth, is for ever threatening to stifle virility as well as intelligence. Impotent to create, it can only contaminate in the germ the frail promise of humanity; it is probably at the very source, the primal cause of all human blemishes; and when amid the windings of this huge jungle whose paths are unknown, we encounter Lust, just as she is, as she emerged forth from the hands of the Master of Prodigies, the cry from our hearts is not only terror but imprecation: 'You, you alone have set death loose upon the world!”
Source: The Diary of a Country Priest
“We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.”
“We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.”
Source: Personal Development for Smart People
“we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.”
“We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.”
“We prioritize integrity and honesty when it comes to our Assets Under Management.”
“We probably expected too much
from a people held together
by something signed with a feather.”
“We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.”
“We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.”
“We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.”
“We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing.”
“We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.”
Source: The Angel Experiment
“We probably release 1% of the products that we are working on.”
“We probably stagnate our children's emotional growth by not letting them have some separation from us.”
“We probably waste more energy worrying what others think of us than we do actually living. It might not seem like a big deal but in the end, it really is. The first step to standing out is to believe in yourself and your own practices.”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“We probably won’t live long enough to run out of food, or electricity, or anything important.” “Oh, you’ll live,” Murphy said. “I have no doubt.” “Really?” Jerome asked, real curiosity in his voice. “What makes you think I’ll last?” “Because you’re a pussy!”
Source: Infected
“We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.”
“We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.”
“We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.”
Source: Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
“We proceed under the law of the Mutiny Act. In feature no child can resemble his father more than that Act resembles in spirit the thing from which it derives--War.”
Source: Billy Budd and Other Tales
“We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.”
Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904
“We proceeded to make way across the mighty Hooghly River, a monstrous offshoot of the Ganges, where we contemplated for a moment, our thoughts seemingly caught in the roaring southward current; there we gazed, toward where the city transitions into mangrove jungle, and somewhere a bit further to the southwest where all the rivers split infinitely like capillaries, where those famous Bengal tigers trod among the sunderbans. Peering in that direction, Bajju gripped the vertical bars just above the horizontal pedestrian railing, breathing slowly and silently, knees locked, still, despite being on arguably the busiest and loudest bridge in the world.”
Source: The Local School
“We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.”
“We proclaim our commitment to continue to strive for the establishment of lasting world peace.”
“We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others”
“We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.”
“We produce ourselves, we product our own future. We have to offer our best thoughts, speech and actions. Mindfulness helps us to know whether we're producing the right thing for future and helps us remember that what we produce is us, is our continuation.”
Source: Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child
“We produce programs that honor God and impact our world.”
“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.”
Source: Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical
“We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.”
“We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to principles; art is knowledge reduced to practice. The knowing and doing, however, are distinct. ... Your knowledge, therefore, is useless unless you cultivate the art of healing. Unfortunately, the scientific man very often has the least amount of art, and he is totally unsuccessful in practice; and, on the other hand, there may be much art based on an infinitesimal amount of knowledge, and yet it is sufficient to make its cultivator eminent.”
“We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“We professional athletes are very lucky. Unlike most mortals, we are given the privilege of dying twice - once when we retire and again when death takes us.”
“We profit little by books we do not enjoy.”