W Quotes
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“We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.”
Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale
“We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.”
“We set to work to bury people. We pushed them into the sides of the trench but bits of them kept getting uncovered and sticking out, like people in a badly made bed. Hands were the worst; they would escape from the sand, pointing, begging - even waving! There was one which we all shook when we passed, saying, 'Good morning', in a posh voice. Everybody did it. The bottom of the trench was springy like a mattress because of all the bodies underneath.”
Source: Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
“We set up a bakery called Bad Boy Bakery, to cook on the inside to sell on the outside. It was huge, because it got them working. I'd give them a certificate to go back in the community with a skill. They could get a job. We set up a little bakery and it's gone crazy. I need to be that raw to do the glossy stuff. I need to get back to that kind of scenario.”
“We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.”
“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.”
“We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.”
“We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.”
Source: Complete Works
“We set up one rule in our house, which is, 'Guests of guests cannot bring guests.' That rule was required because that happened one weekend, and we finally said, 'Okay, you know what? That's a little too much.'”
“We set up shop on a nearby bench, me starting with the savory order--- trout roe; sour cream; pickled radish--- and him with the sweet one--- spicy apple chutney; honey; whipped cream. The second savory order, with smoked salmon and dill and cucumber, we balanced between us, because I couldn't limit us to only two options after all. And really, when it came to fried potatoes, the more the merrier.
Especially these, because they were excellent: lacy and crisp, with crunchy edges and soft, pillowy centers.”
Source: Love You a Latke
“We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.”
“We settled Mama into the wheelchair and loaded her down with both our pocketbooks and a vase of flowers I had picked to present to our host in hopes of softening the effects of any opinions Mama might vent during the evening.”
Source: Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
“We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.”
“We Shadowhunters, we put ourselves in danger, every hour, every day. I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
What a time they have, these two
housed as they are in the same body.”
Source: Evidence: Poems
“We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four
“We shall achieve more by blasting politicians into space, than by blasting satellites to other planets. They'll leave earth as warmongers, and return as peacemakers. They'll leave earth as mindless apes, and return as mindful humans.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.”
“We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.”
“We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816
“We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.”
“We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then. If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us, and it outlives its personal moment. All of my work is deep-dug from me, and every book has to stand or fall without me.”
“We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home.”
Source: The Beatryce Prophecy
“We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret
perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.”
Source: Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism
“We shall all need the endurance of Dwarves. But come! With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! We will make such as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!”
Source: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by Tolkien, J.R.R. (2 Rep Sub Edition) [Hardcover(1988)]
“We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?”
“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.”
“We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.”
Source: Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert
“We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.”
“We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute in judgment, but they are as yet very immature in heart. He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it. ... I know we who are young beginners in grace think ourselves qualified to reform the whole Christian church. We drag her before us, and condemn her straightway; but when our virtues become more mature, I trust we shall not be more tolerant of evil, but we shall be more tolerant of infirmity, more hopeful for the people of God, and certainly less arrogant in our criticisms.”
Source: Spurgeon's Sermons Vol. 1-10
“We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.”
“We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.”
“We shall be better, braver, and
more active if we believe it right to
look for what we don't know.”
“We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.”
“We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.”
Source: The words of Desmond Tutu
“We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.”
“We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.”
Source: The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets
“We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.”
Source: Scientific Lectures and Essays
“We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres,
And all the live World's throbbing heart shall be
One with our heart, the stealthy creeping years
Have lost their terror now, we shall not die,
The Universe itself shall be our Immortality!”
Source: The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde
“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”
“We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.”
Source: The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872
“We shall be so right . . . that we shall be strong; we shall only wonder at our past fear. It will seem an ugly madness. It will seem a bad dream.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“We shall be the greatest students of our own mistakes.”
“We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—”
Source: A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas
“We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist.”
“We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.”
“We shall build on.
On through the cynic”
“We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.”