W Quotes
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“We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.”
“We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?”
“We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.”
Source: Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844
“We say, "They're fit!", as we recognize fitness makes us more attractive.”
“We say to others only what we need to hear”
“We say to ourselves we won't live forever, but I don't think that thought ever really sinks in until the day comes.”
“We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.”
“We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.”
“We say to the Creator of all this magnitude and majesty, ‘Well, I’m not sure You are worth it…. You see, I really like my car, or my little sin habit, or my money, and I’m really not sure I want to give them up, even if it means I get You.’”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”
Source: Remarkable Creatures: A Novel
“We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but its to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.”
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.”
“We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.”
“We say we exchange words when we meet. What we exchange is souls.”
“We say we long for intimacy with God and others, and yet we structure our lives so that this becomes impossible. One might think we are avoiding intimacy, that maybe we really like our finely managed lives just the way they are.”
Source: Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
“We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.”
“We say we love self
While pimping out our pussy
Yet, our wombs scream help.”
“We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.”
“We say we want the truth,
but the truth has a way of breaking things
we never knew were fragile.”
“We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.”
“We say yes to the society of solidarity and democracy where free people together, in mutual respect and under mutual responsibility, shape a life where everyone has equal opportunities and equal value.”
“We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.”
“We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.”
Source: Apologetic and Practical Treatises
“We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.”
Source: The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God
“We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.”
“We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken.”
Source: Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship
“We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.”
Source: Fires
“We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.”
Source: Gifts
“We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.”
Source: The Common Reader
“We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.”
“We scare ourselves
to purge something
that we hate
within ourselves.”
Source: We Will Never Be Here Again
“We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.”
Source: Broken
“We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.”
Source: A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall
“We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“We scientists can argue forever about important topics like slightly different flavors of vanilla ice cream. Consider the silliness of this debate: one group of scientists found a 90% decline of big fish and criticized fishery management. Some other scientists found an 80% decline and started a big argument with the 90% people. Who cares if it's 80% or 90%? The real question is whether it's OK to let fishermen take most of the big fish out of our oceans.”
“We scientists have fantasies of being uniquely qualified to make great discoveries. Alas, reality is cruel: most of us are replaceable. For the vast majority of scientific contributions, if scientist X hadn't achieved it that year, scientist Y would have achieved the same result or something very similar soon thereafter.”
“We scientists have way too much a tendency to simplify problems. I guess it actually comes to us naturally. Take the simplest unit, separate out all the confusing, external factors. Study it. Make sure you understand it. And in psychology that means the person studying the individual. But if you want to study our social nature, if you want to study processes that will lead to war and peace, you don't learn all that much by looking at the single individual. A lot of the important things are emergent facts about us, things that you can only see when you get a lot of us interacting.”
“We scientists invent things to preserve life, but morons end up using them to take life.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“We scientists perceive it as the Truth that will give us absolute understanding of the universe – which is impossible at the moment for a young species like us. On the other hand, the mystics perceive the Ultimate Truth, to be the attainment of Absolute Divinity, which all the religious giants experienced. But this attainment, is nowhere near the actual Ultimate Truth – it is only a subjective experience of the mind, evoked by specific internal and external stimuli.”
Source: Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
“We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“We scored a goal and defended until the end with great spirit. We have a lot of young players and I hope we can keep on like this.”
“We scored a season-high, yeah - albeit against a team that is somewhat tanking.”
“We scornfully decline, because of one whom we love and who will some day be of so little account, to see another who is of no account to-day, with whom we shall be in love to-morrow, with whom we might, perhaps, had we consented to see her now, have fallen in love a little earlier and who would thus have put a term to our present sufferings, bringing others, it is true, in their place.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
“We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would prefer to be the British No. 1 from Scotland every time.”
“We screamed this primeval scream built on a base of freedom, raised from beauty of a dying breed, and threw our heads back to laugh or cry, I'm not entirely sure which. But the scream shook the golden sunset, bringing it to its knees.”
Source: Sixteenth Notes: the breaking of the rose-colored glasses
“We scribbled down writers’ reflections on life, discovered the joys of describing ourselves to ourselves with shimmering turns of phrase, ‘existence is to drink oneself without thirst.’ We were overcome by nausea and a feeling of the absurd.”
Source: Les Années
“We script our own psyche. We each journey alone. The path that we take through life proves to be every person’s supreme test of mental, physical, and emotional stamina, and the final determiner of his or her intellectual, ethical, and spiritual attainment.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We scroll for meaning, but meaning grows slowly—like roots, not feeds.”
“We scroll,
we click,
we swipe,
racing through digital static,
each distraction a fleeting sedative,
numbing the quiet dread gnawing
at the edges of our withering hearts.
We remain distant,
mere spectators to our own lives,
as the hours slip
like grains of sand through the hourglass,
and only now, in the suffocating silence,
do we sense the weight of all that’s slowly slipping away.”