W Quotes
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“We sort of quickly realized every rhythm, Opetaia [Foa'i] takes the lead.”
“We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.”
“We sort of understand how painkillers work. You take one, and it reduces your headache. We don't understand how photographs work. And that, to me, is an essential problem as a practitioner.”
“We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not see our families, not just to watch the evening news and the inane comedies designed to pacify the multitudes, but rather to explore ourselves.”
“We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5 - 4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.”
“We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.”
“We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.”
Source: Poems of Rural Life in Common English
“We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.”
“We South Asians have sycophancy in our genes!”
“We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take advantage of the American presence in South Vietnam to make the propaganda that they were the only one who fought for the independence of the country and against the, only foreigners, first the French and after that the Americans.”
“We southerners worship our ancestors.”
Source: The Restorer
“We sow in hardship, we reap in perseverance — and our legacy will speak louder than any obstacle.”
“We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.”
“We speak about losing our minds as if it is a bad thing. I say, lose your mind. Do it purposefully. Find out who you really are beyond your thoughts and beliefs. Lose your mind, find your soul.”
“We speak by the mouth ; lovers by the lips. (Nous parlons par la bouche ; - Amoureux par les lèvres)”
“We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is "man-made", ergo artificial. But what one learns in chemistry is that Nature wrote all the rules of structuring; man does not invent chemical structuring rules; he only discovers the rules. All the chemist can do is find out what Nature permits, and any substances that are thus developed or discovered are inherently natural. It is very important to remember that.”
“We speak for all citizens of the Commonwealth when we say that society can draw great hope for the future because of the example which these young people are giving by their creative and constructive responses to the challenges which confront our communities and dedication to help those most in need.”
“We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.”
“We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.”
Source: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“We speak for those who cannot speak. We have a duty to tell the stories for those who do not have the advantages that we have to tell stories. We must not speak falsely. The stories that we are entrusted to tell are stories of our tribes, or the tribes into which we have been initiated.”
“We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.”
Source: Errata: An Examined Life
“We speak it literally, metaphorically, rhythmically and harmoniously; yet it is perceived diversely to have the most profound affect, universally.”
“We speak languages we didn’t invent, and travel on roads we didn’t pave. So too are most of the thoughts we have handed down to us, without needing to invent them ourselves. Ism’s and ity’s give us paths to follow, and billions of people do.”
Source: sciVive
“We speak little if not egged on by vanity.”
“We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.”
“We speak more freely of our emotional complexes than of our material condition or of our socio-professional milieu; we prefer to ask ourselves about the homosexual component of our characters than about the history which has made us and which we have made. We too are victims and accomplices of alienation, reification, mystification. We too stagger beneath 'the weight of things said and done', of lies accepted and transmitted without belief. But we have no wish to know it. We are like sleepwalkers treading in a gutter, dreaming of our genitals rather than looking at our feet.”
Source: Between Existentialism and Marxism
“We speak more honestly to AI.”
Source: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AI — VOLUME I: The Inner Human in the Age of Reflection
“We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.”
“We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someone’s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.”
“We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.”
“We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.”
Source: Seeing Voices
“We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.”
“We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.”
“We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?”
Source: Letters to mothers
“We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy.”
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight.”
“We speak of men and their rage as if it I laudable. "Men just get mad and push each other and it's over", we say. "Women are just bitches; they never let it go." That's because we never can let it go. Because where would we put it? What system? What faith? What institution has room? Has patience? Has understanding for an angry woman?”
Source: Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
“We speak of peace, yes, but whose peace? Poland's? Bulgaria's? The peace of the grave?”
“We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.”
“We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.”
“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”
“We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.”
“We speak of tipping points as if they belong to the climate. But humans have them too—the quiet moment when someone stands, speaks, and refuses to sit down again.”
“We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.”
Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology
“We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.”
“We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish.
Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.”
“We speak until our mouths ache. I won't remember what we speak about, but I'll be certain it was deep. We are both terribly deep.”
Source: In Defence of the Act
“We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.”