W Quotes
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“We shall never now be able to arrive at any judgment of the full scale of what took place, of the number who perished, or of the standard they might have attained. No one will ever tell us about the notebooks hurriedly burned before departures on prisoner transports, or of the completed fragments and big schemes carried in heads and cast together with those heads into frozen mass graves. Verses can be read, lips close to ear; they can be remembered, and they or the memory of them can be communicated. But prose cannot be passed on before its time. It is harder for it to survive. It is too bulky, too rigid, too bound up with paper, to pass through the vicissitudes of the Archipelago.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books III-IV
“We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.”
“We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.”
“We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.”
Source: America
“We shall never return to social sanity till we begin at the beginning. We must start where all history starts, with a man and a woman, and a child, and with the province of liberty and property which these need for their full humanity. As it is, we begin where history ends, or, rather, where disjointed journalism ends. We stop suddenly with the accidental truncation of today's news; and judge everything by the particular muddle of the moment.”
Source: The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 31: The Illustrated London News, 1917-1919
“We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.”
“We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.”
“We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.”
“We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.”
“We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.”
Source: Evolution and Ethics
“We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.”
“We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.”
Source: Your God is too small
“We shall never witness the dawn of peace till we break our trance of arms.”
Source: The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo
“We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.”
“We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.”
“We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.”
“We shall not always plant while others reap”
Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)
“We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.”
Source: The Novels of Victor Hugo: Profusely Illustrated with Elegant Wood Engravings
“We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time.”
Source: Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach
“We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.”
“We shall not bind ourselves by treaties. We shall not allow ourselves to be entangled by treaties. We reject all clauses on plunder and violence, but we shall welcome all clauses containing provisions for good-neighbourly relations and all economic agreements; we cannot reject these.”
“We shall not bow to fear! We will not submit to no king nor pay tribute to any power!”
Source: Dasig
“We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.”
“We shall not cease from exploration”
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.”
Source: Four Quartets
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.”
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
“We shall not cease from exploring,
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.”
“We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.”
Source: On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war
“We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood”
“We shall not extend ourselves with magic when bureaucracy serves as fine an end.”
Source: Flies to Wanton Boys
“We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.”
“We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.”
“We shall not fail. The dream will be fulfilled.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.”
Source: Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral
“We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.”
“We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.”
Source: Daily Help Devotional
“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.”
“We shall not grow wiser until we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.”
“We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.”
“We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.”
“We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.”
“We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.”
“We shall not perish, if we pray.”
“We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the New Atlantis that stays in the mind after all its fancies and inventions have been forgotten. In the New Atlantis, an island kingdom lying in very distant seas, the only commodity of external trade is light: Bacon's own special light, the light of understanding.”
“We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.”
Source: The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies
“We shall not sip from the same glass,
No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace at morning,
Not gaze from the same sill at night;
You breathe the sun, I the moon,
Yet the one love keeps us alive.
Always with me, tender, true friend,
And your smiling friend’s with you.
But I know the pain in your grey eyes,
And my sickness is down to you, too.
In short, we mustn’t meet often,
To be certain of peace of mind.
Yet it’s your voice sings in my poems,
And in your poems my breath sighs,
O, beyond the reach of distance or fear,
There is a fire…
And if you knew how dear to me
Are those dry, pale lips of yours now.”