W Quotes
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“We should be unshakable and uncompromising while we stand for God’s truth”
“We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails.”
Source: The Lost Crown
“We should be very skeptical of people who want to place limits on how we express ourselves.”
“We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.”
Source: The Portable Milton
“We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.”
“We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.”
Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
“We should be willing to spend the money in return for the innovation.”
“We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.”
“We should be working to live, not living to work. We have created this "individualistic culture" were living to work has been centered around material gains. Working to live is a better approach because it emphasis on the human experiences and the condition of living.”
Source: Liberian Son
“We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous”
“We should be worried about online silos. They make us stupid and hostile toward each other.”
“We should be worried about protecting the homeland. I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.”
“We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.”
“We should be worrying about Wall Street - run health care.”
“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.”
“We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.”
“We should bear in mind the supercrip stereotype as a figure obsessively, indeed maniacally, over-compensating for a perceived physical difference or lack, since, as we shall see, this aspect ties in quite neatly with the genre specificities and narratival concerns of so much Silver Age superhero literature.”
Source: Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
“We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be).”
“We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.”
“We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.”
Source: The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of
“We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.”
Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 8: Letters and State Papers 1782 - 1799
“We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us”
“We should believe in quality of books rather than quantity of books.”
“We should blush for shame to show so much resentment at what is done or said against us, knowing that so many injuries and affronts have been offered to our Redeemer and the saints.”
“We should build respect and understanding between the diverse cultures of the world. We should help construct communities where people of different backgrounds can live together as neighbors. Freedom is something for which we must fight, not by limiting it but by strengthening it.”
“We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.”
“We should call editorials what they are: columns written by committees.”
“We should care about what is going on in the world.”
“We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.”
“We should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition.”
Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock
“We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind.
Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness,
where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience,
all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.”
“We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.”
“We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
“We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.”
“We should celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we're happier and healthier.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.”
“We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular.”
“We should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings
How’s can we argue with that?”
Source: Girl, Woman, Other
“We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.”
“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
“We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.”
“We should certainly not be perpetuating further harm to others or to the environment. Suppose that workers at ExxonMobil are trying to unionize. We have two choices: to help them improve their lives, or to keep away so that their lives will be worse. Neither choice has any effect on use of fossil fuels. So radical organizers can both help them unionize and improve their lives, and convince them to find a different way to survive and work for ending the use of fossil fuels.”
“We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.”
“We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.”
“We should change the name of AR-15s to 'Marco Rubio' because they are so easy to buy”
“We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.”
Source: Reasoning and the logic of things: the Cambridge conferences lectures of 1898
“We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.”
Source: L.P.
“We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.”
“We should choose our thoughts wisely, considering they nourish our souls . . . or poison them.”