W Quotes
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“We run the company by questions, not by answers.”
“We run things, things don't run we.”
“We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.”
Source: Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)
“We run to undo the damage we've done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered.”
Source: No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running
“We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”
“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves”
Source: The First Four Minutes
“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”
“We runners are all a little nutty, but we're good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may not understand running, but we do, and we cherish it. That's our only message.”
“We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.”
“We runnin around in thousand-dollar clown suits,
Better get some boots when Lucifer turn your city to Beirut.”
“We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.”
“We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.”
“We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.”
“We Russians are already living, not getting ready to live.”
Source: The View from the Kremlin
“We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.”
“We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken so much trouble to construct over the years. Faced with the pain of that distance, the distance between desire and reality, we turn just for a moment and quickly busy ourselves.”
“We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands
Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands:
We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl,
We progress, and we prog from pole to pole.”
Source: Emblems: Divine and Moral
“We sacrifice others and feed on them in order to maintain our own existence.”
Source: Be Afraid: How Horror and Faith Can Change the World
“We sacrifice our potential because we do not know that we are pure potential.”
Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
“We sacrifice our youth in order to gain needed experience. When we gain experience, we continue to grind just as hard as we did during our apprenticeships.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We sacrifice their childhood on the altar of preparing them for adulthood.
But what if childhood was the preparation?
What if having a whole childhood was the key to a healthy adulthood?”
Source: The Wild and Free Family: Forging Your Own Path to a Life Full of Wonder, Adventure, and Connection
“We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham
“We safeguard the right to attribution very strongly. After all, what we are fighting for is the intent of copyright as it is described in the US constitution: the promotion of culture. Many artists are using recognition as their primary driving force to create culture.”
“We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody expected 11th of September. So, you cannot expect. It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything.”
“We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us!”
“We said nothing for some time but we couldn't have been more eloquent.”
Source: The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories
“We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a single wrong to justice and to right, particularly if it is universally, legally, nationally, commodiously accepted, that a single crime shatters and is sufficient to shatter the whole social pact, the whole social contract, that a single legal crime, a single dishonorable act will bring about the loss of ones honor, the dishonor of a whole people. It is a touch of gangrene that corrupts the entire body.”
“We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.”
“We said that pledges made in the peace process need to be fulfilled as soon as possible.”
“We said that we had to please ourselves first, that was the point of what being an artist was all about. If you didn't keep your integrity in the face of hard commercial decisions, you were lost. Your soul was dead.”
Source: Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac
“We said till death do us part.”
“Death is tearing us apart.”
Source: Before I Let Go
“We said we are ready to establish our independent state in any part from which the Israelis withdraw or which is liberated. Any part. The moment they withdraw from Gaza, I will establish my state there in Gaza.”
“We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.”
“We said we'd fly the flag without him and carry on. I didn't give him a kiss because I still hadn't accepted what was happening. I was hoping that some miracle was going to happen. Of course, it didn't. I wish I had kissed him now.”
“We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.”
“We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you And should I fall behind,Wait for me.”
“We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.”
Source: City
“We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.”
Source: Ancient Evenings: A Novel
“We sail in leaky bottoms and on great and perilous waters; and to take a cue from the dolorous old naval ballad, we have heard the mer-maidens singing, and know that we shall never see dry land any more. Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. If there is a fill of tobacco among the crew, for God's sake pass it round, and let us have a pipe before we go!”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque
“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.”
Source: Pensees
“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. When we think to attach ourselves to any pointand to fasten to it, it wavers and leaves us; and if we follow it, it eludes our grasp, slips past us, and vanishes for ever. Nothing stays for us.”
Source: Pensees
“We sailed to Italy on the Andrea Doria, a year before it sank, and Zoot (Sims) and I played a lot of ping-pong on deck during that trip. Zoot sparked that [Gerry Mulligan's] sextet in an extraordinary way, soloing with joyous abandon and infusing the ensemble parts with his special brand of swing.”
“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.”
“We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.”
“We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory, a new generation of our Armed Forces goes forward against new enemies in a new era. Once again, we pledge to defend freedom, secure our homeland, and advance peace around the world. Americans have been tested before, and our Nation will triumph again.”
“We salute the rank not the man”
“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”
Source: Summer Tree, The: Book One of the Fionavar Tapestry
“We sang at the chapel annexed to the home every morning. We understood that this was the humans' moon, the place for howling beyond purpose. Not for mating, not for hunting, not for fighting, not for anything but the sound itself. And we'd howl along with the choir, hurling every pitted thing within us at the stained glass.”
Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
“We sang 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' in full voice, in our native language, which was English tinged with sorrow and longing.”
Source: Every Anxious Wave
“We sang, nearly shouting the lyrics, the wind clipping at our voices. They say a song can be a bridge, Ma. But I say it's also the ground we stand on. And maybe we sing to keep ourselves from falling. Maybe we sing to keep ourselves.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous