W Quotes
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“We see very few people who are satisfied. They say that the only ones who are really happy are the enlightened or the fools.”
“We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.”
“We see what our mind shows us, nothing less, nothing more. If there is a camel out there but our mind decides to show it as cow, we will see cow, not camel.
We don't know what is actually out there. It maybe God Himself. But our limited mind shows us limited things.”
“We see what we are only through reflection and thus the more our reflections occur, the less our mistakes will be!”
“We see what we believe rather than what we see.”
“We see what we believe, not the other way around.”
“We see what we feel and feel what we see.”
“We see what we see because we miss all the finer details.”
“We see what we want to believe.”
“We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.”
“We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.”
Source: Genevieve
“We see which way the stream of time doth run.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings
“We see witchcraft, finally, as a deeply ambivalent but violent struggle /within/ women as well as an equally ambivalent but violent struggle /against/ women.”
Source: The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
“We see with eyes in our head, but see clearer with eyes of the heart. Some see beauty, some see ugliness. In both cases, what they see is a reflection of their own nature.”
Source: The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen
“We see with our brains, not with our eyes.”
“We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.”
“We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.”
“We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.”
“We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.”
“We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.”
Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition
“We see, from almost every conceivable angle throughout the Scripture, that there is no doctrine more clearly taught than that it is God's will to heal all who have need of healing, and that they may fulfill the number of their days according to His promise.”
“We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.”
Source: Zettel
“We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.”
Source: Psychologie des foules
“We see, we feel, we change.”
Source: Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)
“We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.”
Source: Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.”
“We seek absolute neutrality in Buddhism. We don't want to be drawn into anything in particular. We don't want to be pushed away from anything in particular.”
“We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.”
“We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not want to be reduced to accepting the strange features of our universe as brute facts.”
“We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“We seek beauty, but our understanding of its nature is limited. We find it primarily in easy-to-appreciate human forms. As we grow older and learn more, we journey closer to the truth of beauty. We begin to perceive it more powerfully in minds than in bodies. We stay on our quest, ascending, going higher and higher in our conception of beauty. As we do, our capacity to recognize beauty grows larger. We can take in more. Our eyes adjust to the bright light of the true nature of beauty until, at last, we may be able to behold it - perfect beauty, which is "pure, clean, unmixed, and not infected with human flesh, colors, or morality." Glimpsing to at last, we become part of a bigger sum, something vast and immortal.”
Source: Easy Beauty
“We seek compensation, true, but we also seek to prevent future abhorrent conduct by this or any other priest. We seek to punish a vicious predator of children and the religious institution that stands idly by and watches while a whole generation of God’s precious children are physically and psychologically raped of their childhood, their faith, and their trust in role models. This is about a hierarchy whose solution to the problem is to send the offending priest packing, quietly pay off victims, and actively cover up crimes. The cover-up is responsible for a vicious cycle of crime upon crime. This lawsuit says we will not go quietly like those who came before us. The vicious cycle stops here and now.”
Source: Betrayal of Faith
“We seek excellence before we seek understanding, wisdom before we gain knowledge, success before we understand hardwork; for this reason we need great teachers and leaders.”
“We seek fame and acceptance: everything except ourselves and a sane mind.”
“We seek forgiveness with dhikr so much that we forget the true meaning of Dhikr.”
“We seek friendly relations with all nations. Any nation can be our friend without being any other nation's enemy.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971
“We seek fulfillment in our lives through heart connection with others. This is our soul's essence of joy, which spontaneously pulses through us, longing to share itself with another.”
“We seek God in our vigor, but he often comes to us in suffering. We pursue God in success; we find him in defeat. We assume following him will mean gain; he is our Lord in loss. We want him in abundance; but he speaks to us in poverty.”
Source: The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians
“We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.”
Source: The Source
“We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.”
Source: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
“We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.”
Source: The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal
“We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility.”
“We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than ‘exist’.”
Source: Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4
“We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways.”
“We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.”
“We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.”
Source: How We Know What Isn't So
“We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.”
“We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.”
“We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“We seek the fire of the spark that is already within us.”