W Quotes
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“We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.”
“We speak, but it is God who teaches.”
“We speak, indeed, of the wrath of God. We do not, however, assert that it indicates any passion on His part, but that it is something which is assumed in order to discipline by stern means those sinners who have committed many and grievous sins.”
“We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.”
Source: It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life
“We speed past the taffy-pulling machine, which is already churning out a new batch of strawberry-pink taffy, and past the stacks of chocolate-dipped everything (pretzels, strawberries, even bacon), beelining straight to the crinkly bags of taffy.”
Source: The Charmed List
“We spend $3 trillion a year [on healthcare] and we're only getting sicker.”
“We spend 80% of our efforts perfecting 20% of our work. Perfection boosts your ego, not your happiness.”
Source: Quantraz
“We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.”
“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”
“We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.”
Source: The Osgood Files
“We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“We spend a huge chunk of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually get the person and/or the things we need or want. Once we get them, we spend the rest of our lives worrying about whether or not we will eventually lose them.”
“We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.”
“We spend a lot of energy remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget.”
“We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?”
“We spend a lot of time bickering at great cost, and very little time actually coming up with solutions. And I think we misuse our ambition for our own gains and rarely for the betterment of ourselves, and people around us and our environment. And I think that's sort of pathetic and desperate.”
“We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.”
“We spend a lot of time talking about leaving a legacy in this world, grand or small, financial or repetitional, so that we won’t be forgotten. But ghost stories show us a different concern, hidden under our bluster: we hope that the dead won’t forget us. We hope that we, the living, will not lose the meanings that seem to evaporate when our loved ones die.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“We spend a lot of time talking about the unfairness of how our toxic musculine society forces us to be ashamed of embracing romance novels. Yet we buy our books in secret. It's time we practice what we preach.”
Source: Undercover Bromance
“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop”
“We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it's impossible. It's out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.”
“We spend a lot of time worrying about what other people are thinking, concerned that they can tell we are freaking out inside, feel underprepared, or don’t know what we’re talking about. Most of the time, people are so preoccupied with some combination of the same fears that they don’t have enough time left to psychoanalyze a person they just met who replied, “Thanks, you too!” when they’ve said “Enjoy your latte.” You have dodged a bullet, and in fact the bullet doesn’t exist at all. Everyone is awkward. Everyone is scared. Everyone is going to die eventually. Everyone just wants to make some friends and memories before that happens. Everyone is trying to figure it out.”
Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way
“We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All up and down the social ladder you find people with plenty of money for cell phones, home entertainment systems, all other forms of entertainment.”
“We spend about 20 percent of our total sleep time in a dream state. For most of us, this means we dream one and a half hours each night or, on the average, spend four years of our lifetime in a dream state.”
Source: Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble
“We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.”
Source: Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
“We spend all our lives trying to avoid reality in one way or another. I've always had a rather strong sense of unreality. I feel other people exist in a way I don't.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
“We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.”
“We spend almost all our time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to our conversation with ourselves. It’s not always what we hear but it’s our inner conversation with ourselves that shapes our life.”
Source: Our Nepal, Our Pride
“We spend an inordinate amount of money of the federal budget on the machinery of war, and neglect our kids in the process, and it's not OK”
“We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.”
“We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.”
“We spend billions on banks when we know that a fraction of this money could save all the children in the world.”
“We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.”
“We spend far too much of our lives at work to have it be in opposition to the person we desire to be.”
Source: Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within
“We spend far too much time working to get through the moment to understand that life is a collection of moments. And if we don’t come to see the confluence of moments as the fabric of life, we will miss life while living the very moments that were supposed to create it.”
“We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.”
“We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.”
“We spend less time with each other now than we did during the presidency. When you're president, you're usually out and back in the same day - at least I was. I just came from a trip to the Middle East last week, where I was gone for five nights, and when I left, Laura [Bush] was out of town.”
“We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.”
“We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.”
“We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.”
“We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.”
“We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.”
“We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels on the subject. We have far more novels about families bickering at Thanksgiving and not enough about the day before Thanksgiving at the office. If we lived in, say, Romania, maybe a workplace job might not be as important to the cultural discussion. But we live in America, where work is crucially important and capitalism drives everything we do.”
“We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“We spend most of our lives doing nothing but waiting. Waiting things that always change.”
“We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.”
“We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?”
“We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”
“We spend most of our waking time in the dreams of the moving mind”
Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep