W Quotes
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“We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.”
“We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“We unify. We include."
"But humans like being individuals."
"We know," Rue said. He pushes off the ground with his foot, starting the swing into a slow sway. "We didn't understand-individuals like being lonely."
"It's not lonely." Hopefully he can't tell I'm lying.”
Source: Arclight
“We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.”
“We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.”
Source: Letters of John Calvin
“We unknowingly close our eyes to thoughts and experiences solely due to preconditioning and biases.”
“We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.”
Source: Institutes of the Christian religion Volume v.1
“We unnecessarily give too much importance to the tools and systems and rule. Forgetting that people make rules, Rules should not make people. I almost scoff at people when someone says,"It can't be done". All i would like to say that, "Sir, Please say "I do not know how to do it" or Say "I do not want to do it".”
“We unthinkingly build the pilings of our lives upon whatever comes along. Like it or not, we play the hand that fate deals us. If fate is kind, some people credit their fortuitous circumstances to their ingenuity and resoluteness. If fate is cruel, some people curse God. The truth is that an unenlightened person resists suffering, they continually wish for a world different than it is, whereas an enlightened person learns how to suffer heroically.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel about ourselves -- unless we love ourselves compassionately, intensely, and freely.”
Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
“We upgrade URZ to a Buy; we see an entry opportunity with investors.”
“We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.”
“We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.”
“We urge persons with same-gender attractions to control those and to refrain from acting upon them, which is a sin, just as we urge persons with heterosexual attractions to refrain from acting upon them until they have the opportunity for a marriage recognized by God as well as by the law of the land. That is the way to happiness and eternal life.”
“We urge President Bush to abstain from the National Missile Defense, just as we urge China, India and Pakistan to discontinue their nuclear arsenals.”
“We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people.”
“We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.”
Source: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
“We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.”
“We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts.”
Source: Silent Spring
“We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.”
Source: Silent Spring
“We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.”
“We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.”
Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
“We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will.
I think we're fucked.”
Source: Ten Billion
“We urgently need to either start increasing the size of our planet, or stop increasing the size of our population.”
“We urgently need to find ways to push scientific and technological progress in directions that are likely to bring us good, and away from those directions that spell doom. This cannot be done if we stick to the erroneous view that all such progress is good for us. The first thing we need is to be able to distinguish those advances whose potential is most in the direction of prosperity and human flourishing from those whose potential is more in the direction of destruction and doom, and we need to find safe ways to handle those technologies that come with elements of both. Our ability to do so today is very limited, my ambition with this book is to draw attention to the problem, so that we can work together to improve, and avoid running blindfolded at full speed into a dangerous future.”
Source: Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
“We urgently need to invent new models of generosity. We need to find a way for a small portion to feel as much like love as a large one.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“We use a lot of creativity and new technology, cutting edge things to use in our church, but really what it comes down to is God changing a life.”
“We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.”
“We use a neck training machine where you can strengthen the muscles, going front to back, side to side. You can also connect a big resistance band to a wall or something and do the exercise like that.”
“We use all pain experiences as grist for the mill of our spiritual development. This is the place where the real spiritual work is happening.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“We use all the takes that no one would ever use and often the moments before we say action, or before we say cut. No one's ever called and complained or anything like that. Everyone's just so grateful to get the work and to be on TV and all that.”
“We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and rule by the will of masses have their bad points, as the ancient philosophers all knew.”
“We use Ann sparingly right now so that people don't get tired of her.”
“We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.”
“We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.”
“We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.”
Source: The Exorcist
“We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.”
Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners
“We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!”
“We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.”
Source: The Fabric of Memory
“We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.”
“We use intuition as a way to connect with our Divine Self.”
“We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.”
“We use money that we don't have to show off to people that we don't even like.”
Source: Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
“We use NVC to evaluate ourselves in ways that engender growth rather than self-hatred.”
“We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!”
“We use our belief in witchcraft, God, miracles, etc. to fill a hole in our heart, or a gap in our knowledge or understanding.”
“We use our eyes to see, but we use our voice to know.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.”
“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day. (p.28)”
Source: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness