W Quotes
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“We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.”
“We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.”
“We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.”
“We take life so serious at times, worrying about the little things, until we get to the end of our lives and wonder why we did.”
“We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.”
“We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.”
“We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it.”
Source: Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings
“We take no pleasure in permitted joys,
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.”
“We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.”
Source: Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649
“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. Modesty forbids us to say so, but there are times when we think pretty well of ourselves. And yet, if we examine it more closely, our enthusiasm turns out to be all sham. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos....
We are humanitarian and chivalrous; we don't want to enslave other races, we simply want to bequeath them our values and take over their heritage in exchange. We think of ourselves as the Knights of the Holy Contact. This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. (1970 English translation)”
Source: Solaris
“We take off our shoes, or we turn on our ears. We press our hands together in a gesture of prayer, or we remember the full extent of our lungs. Perhaps we even arrange ourselves cross-legged on the ground, or perhaps we dance or walk or swim instead. When we want to escape the surface, we activate our bodies, and they show us a different intelligence, pointing to a mind that resides not just in the head. Our knowing is diffused throughout all of us, distributed through muscle and bone, pulsing through organs and conveyed in the blood. We put our feet to the ground to listen with all of it.
Not all that we know is verbal. Much of it--sometimes I think the vast majority--is somatic, the concern of the body. I learned this most keenly when Bert was a baby, and I used to reach towards him in the back seat on long car journeys and feel his foot press into my palm in reply. There was communication there far beyond words, and far more soothing to both of us. When I used to sit him on my lap and kiss his soft head, I was aware that information was being exchanged between us, transmitted through my lips and received through my nose. I could not even tell you what it said. Our bodies have answers to questions that we don't know how to ask.”
Source: Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age
“We take one group of people and we demonize them. Trying to turn people against our Muslim friend and neighbors.”
“We take only five spheres. Anymore would be too heavy. Is crazy to try with even five. Airsick lowlanders.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make it our own.
We are in this way much like him, who having need of fire, goes to a neighbour's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sits down to warm without remembering to carry any with him home.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.”
“We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up”
“We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.”
“We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.”
Source: On Solitude
“We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.”
“We take our last look at the killing noise.”
“We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.”
“We take our vitamins, we go to exercise class, we put on our seat belts. And then something blindsides us and gives the lie to our carefully constructed facade of safety.”
“We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.”
“we take pictures and videos as love letters to our future selves - reminders of who we are, where we've been and what we're capable of, in case we ever forget.”
“We take pictures because we can't accept that everything passes, we can't accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselve preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived.”
“We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.”
“We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.”
“We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.”
Source: The Book of Tea: Classic Edition
“We take smaller companies and middle-sized companies, all around the world, and we do currency exchange for them; we raise bonds and equities for them; and we do inventory finance, trade finance, and custody of assets.”
“We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.”
Source: The training and work of an initiate
“We take stars totally for granted.... we casually look up and say stupid things like _hey, stars,_ when we should by rights be moaning and gibbering in wonder and fear that fecking nuclear furnaces are burning in the sky in numbers and at distances we cannot even imagine let alone bless me calculate.”
Source: The Plover
“We take tea breaks at ten in the morning and three in the afternoon. Taking regular breaks like this allows us to stay energized throughout the day.”
Source: A Monk’s Guide to A Clean House & Mind
“We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.”
Source: The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience
“We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.”
“We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.”
“We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.”
“We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.”
“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism... We cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
“We take the size of sin too low, and short, and wrong, when we measure it by the wrong it doth to ourselves, or our families, or our neighbours, or the nation wherein we live; indeed, herein somewhat of its evil and mischief doth appear; but to take its full length and proportion, we must consider the wrong it doth to this great, this glorious, this incomparable God. Sin is incomparably malignant, because the God principally injured by it is incomparably excellent.”
Source: Works of George Swinnock, Volume 4
“We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.”
“We take the time to get to know our clients and their goals in order to create a customised plan that matches their needs. We are one of the growing SEO companies in digital marketing, helping you with end-to-end services.”
“We take the very best of what people do, synthesise it down, make it learnable and share it with each other - and that is what the real future of what NLP will be and its gonna stay that way!”
“We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.”
“We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, "Oh, okay."”
“We take thousands of decisions in life; the very best ones are often the ones taken boldly and unhesitatingly!”
“We take to the skies, Stormblessed," Lunamor said. "We will walk no more in coming days. This is the end.”
Source: Oathbringer
“We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosemite. But heritage cannot be measured on a scale...”
Source: Harriman: From Railroad Ranch to State Park
“We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor”
“We take what what we can get.”
“We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.”
Source: The Irony of American History