W Quotes
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“We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.”
“We strive for harmony, but it is not always realized.”
Source: Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals
“We strive hard for excellence in the music, while striving even harder for change outside the music.”
“We strive our whole lives to love people unconditionally, but sometimes we need to get rid of people unconditionally.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.”
“We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.”
“We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBM® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge, change, humility, respect and fulfillment.”
“We strive to make right to education a reality. We believe that education must be free, available, and accessible to everyone.”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.”
“We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.”
Source: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”
Source: The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
“We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.”
Source: My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
“We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.”
“We strolled to the end of the platform. We came to a man with a signal lamp and I saw that as he passed us he looked at a conductor standing on another platform and made a drinking movement with his hand near his mouth. We stopped past the end of the roof and looked at the sun. "You see the sun, Koekebakker?" The sun was especially clear, right in front of us, close by, bigger and redder than I had ever seen it. It almost touched the rails, it didn't flash brightly on things anymore, there was a dull glow only on the frosted windowpanes of the train shed to the right of the track.
"You think I'm drunk?" I did indeed. "It doesn't matter, Koekebakker, when I'm sober I don't understand anything anyway."
"Do you understand what the sun wants from me? I have thirty-four setting suns leaning against the wall, one on top of the other, all facing the wall. But every evening it's there again."
"Unless it's cloudy," I said. But he wouldn't let himself be distracted.
"Koekebakker, you've always been my best friend. I've known you since--how long has it been?"
"Thirteen years. That's a long time. You know what you need to do? Do me a favor. You have a hatbox?"
I didn't say anything.
"Put it in a hatbox, Koekebakker. In a hatbox. I want to be left alone. Put it in a hatbox, a plain old hatbox. That's all it's worth."
Bavinck blubbered drunkard's tears. I looked around helplessly. A man in a uniform with a yellow stripe on his cap came up to us and spoke to me.
"I think it would be better, sir, if you took the gentleman home.”
Source: Titaantjes
“We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease”
“We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.”
“We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.”
“We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.”
“We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.”
“We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.”
“We studied a mosque, and this is when we were at Notre Dame, and in this mosque they had people from a variety of countries, most of them immigrants. In some of the countries, when you go into a mosque you remove your shoes. To not do so could be punishable even by death in that nation. In other countries, it would be a great offense to remove their shoes when they come into the mosque, a sign of disrespect.”
“We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet moment. I wished what I’d said was true, that we had truly left our mark on the mountain. But I knew that after the next snowfall, our angels would disappear into the whiteness and be nothing more than a memory.”
“We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness.”
“We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.”
Source: The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions
“We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.”
“We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.”
“We study humans to give them a healthier and happier life.”
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.”
“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.”
“We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.”
Source: Oliver Cromwell's letters & speeches: with elucidations
“We study the Holy Bible to belive in God.”
“We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.”
“We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We study the past so that we may know the future. Why not study abroad, so that we may know ourselves?”
Source: On a Red Station, Drifting
“We study there a lot because... what other choice does society give us, right? It's Starbucks or death, sometimes.”
“We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“We stumble in sin because we do not know the Scriptures.”
“We stumble in sin, when we fail to read the scriptures.”
“We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“We stumble, we shatter, we fall; yet in time we rise, we are restored, and we endure.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“We subconsciously wish that all of the things we hate but our enemies love were harmful.”
“We subdue that in others which we have learned to subdue in ourselves. Around the upright man there is drawn a wide circle of peace, within which the arrows of evil soon cease to fall; nor have his fellows the power to inflict moral suffering upon him.”
Source: Wisdom and Destiny
“We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform. And men of genius ought not to be chagrined if they see themselves neglected. For when we communicate knowledge, we are raised in our own estimation; but when we receive it, we are lowered.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.”