W Quotes
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“We’ve all known that one salesperson whose primary motivation in a transaction is to earn a commission—regardless of their customer’s needs. From their body language to their self-driven talking points to the “close three times and then some” techniques–they come across as egocentric and uncaring.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“We’ve all known the proverbial conversation hog who dominates a discussion and pays little notice to another person’s input. They’re so busy talking about themselves, we can barely slide a word in edgewise. Don’t be that guy!”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“We’ve all lived too damn long lugging around this puritanical notion that pleasure must be villainized to protect us from ourselves.
Fuck that.
Seriously.
The only question you need to ask is this:
Is everyone involved in full personal safety and enthusiastic consent?
Ask it loudly and repeatedly if you need to.
Yes?
Then you go with your bad, brilliant, beautiful, pleasure-filled self.
Our bodies are here to feel good.
And what makes that happen isn’t for anyone else to decide.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re outside the gender binary, into collars and restraints, love someone with the same parts, desire more than one human, or have a kinky turn on others think is weird.
Monogamous, polyamorous, relationship anarchist, vanilla, kinky—whatever your flavor, it’s valid.
We’ve all wasted way too much damn time in the closet.
End of story.”
“We've all lost something, and I've seen what loss can do to people. But if we gave up every time we lost, then we'd never be able to move forward. We'd never have a chance to see what beautiful things the future might have waiting for us. We'd never have the strength to change; whether it's ourselves, or the world around us. And we'd never be there for other people who might one day be lost without us.”
“We've all made mistakes," she said. "Believe me, I've made my share. But there's a difference between accepting responsibility for our actions and taking the blame for random misfortunes.”
Source: Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom
“We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to contribute.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“We've all received our share of good fortune, so that's my definition of much. A single blessing is all the bounty in the world, and if you've been blessed at all you're meant to pass some of that on. You're meant to set a positive example. That's our responsibility" (20) - Denzel Washington, "So that We Might Follow”
Source: A Hand to Guide Me
“We've all spent time imagining ourselves inhabiting the bodies of our childhood heroes, like avatars in a way, and it's thrilling. But at some point, it's time to put those urges to rest. After all, those bodies are already being used by their original owners.”
Source: How Music Works
“We’ve already altered our relationship with last night,” Nick said. “We’ll never get that back.”
“I know,” Kelly said softly.
“We can stop here and just go to sleep.
”Kelly narrowed his eyes, a smile flitting across his lips. “You’re going to look for the exit at every turn, aren’t you?”
Nick huffed.
Kelly began to unbutton his shirt. “Well there ain’t no exits on this ride, babe, ’cause I know all your tricks.”
Source: Shock & Awe
“We've already had Malthus, the friend of humanity. But the friend of humanity with shaky moral principles is the devourer of humanity, to say nothing of his conceit; for, wound the vanity of any one of these numerous friends of humanity, and he's ready to set fire to the world out of petty revenge—like all the rest of us, though, in that, to be fair; like myself, vilest of all, for I might well be the first to bring the fuel and run away myself.”
Source: The Idiot
“We’ve also, at our age, honed incredibly sharp bullshit detectors and are in possession of a hormonal balance that renders us unwilling to suffer fools yet prepared to take no prisoners.”
“We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a parable when I was younger, about a father who lifts his young son onto his back to carry him across a flooding river. 'When I am older,' said the boy to his father, 'I will carry you across this river as you now do for me.' 'No, you won't,' said the father stoically. 'When you are older you will have your own concerns. All I expect is that one day you will carry your own son across this river as I no do for you.' Cultivating this attitude is an important part of Humanism--to realize that life without God can be much more than a series of strict tit-for-tat transactions where you pay me and I pay you back. Learning to pay it forward can add a tremendous sense of meaning and dignity to our lives. Simply put, it feels good to give to others, whether we get back or not.”
Source: Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
“We've always done it this way" is invalid when that way hasn't led to more life, greater growth, or maximum efficiency. Take that how you will...business, personally, church, or family. Complacency is too easy to breed, and already has one foot in the grave.”
“We've always known we were impotent...but still we chose to strive. So what happened now?”
“We've always lived in the past in Selma, and we still do. But the past has changed on us. It included a lot of stories it didn't used to.”
Source: Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
“We've assembled a small team to assist you, starting with Mr. Kobayashi. He will be your personal security. His family has worked for the Imperial House for decades. He is a wealth of knowledge. You may rely on him for his discretion." Ah, the dagger twists a little deeper. My sworn enemy is to be my closest confidant? Never. "Please be sure to add his contact information to your phone," Mr. Fuchigami says. You bet I will. I'll file it under Satan's Handmaiden, devil horns emoji, double poop emoji.”
Source: Tokyo Ever After
“We've authority to record and authority to use, publicise if it is done publicly or in public places.”
Source: Quote: +/-
“We’ve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we’re so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.”
Source: The Likeness
“We’ve become convinced that filling our lives is the best way to spend our lives. And once we’ve become ‘spent’, we realize that the best way to spend our lives would have been to empty them instead.”
“We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked.”
“We've become very good in our churches today at faking our concern when really we couldn't care less about the people around us.”
Source: Cursing the Church or Helping It?: Exposing the Spirit of Balaam
“We've been around for a long time, Mr. Dowell. Longer than you or any of your stupid little friends could ever conceive. Sleeping in the shadows and waiting for the right moment. A disease you might call us. A plague. Evil. From beneath the ground, it rises as it has done many times in the past.”
Source: Dark Inside
“We've been attacked. The company's been hacked. None of our systems work and the attackers are demanding a two-hundred-million-dollar ransom.”
“We've been attacked. The company's been hacked. None of our systems work and the attackers are demanding a two-hundred-million-dollar ransom." Down the Aisle”
Source: Down the Aisle
“We’ve been born amid violence with blood-stained cribs that wrapped their skins around our bodies, suffocating us to the extent that none of us react to violence anymore.”
Source: Our Deadly Deceptions
“We've been brought up to think of the Victorians as prudes, horrified by a glimpse of table leg, but that myth was constructed in the 1920s out of whole cloth, to give their rebellious children an excuse to point and say, "We invented sex!" The reality is stranger: the Victorians were licentious in the extreme behind closed doors, only denying everything in public in the pursuit of probity.”
Source: The Fuller Memorandum
“We've been called radicals, terrorists. We've been dismissed as an impossible fringe movement. But now we are a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-faith mass movement united in demanding change, in demanding accountability, in demanding that our police, our government, our country recognize that Black lives do indeed matter.
(From election victory speech)”
“We've been dead for thousands and thousands of years. Dead or sleeping, depends on how you feel about it at any given moment. But that's okay. The trouble starts when you are born, then everything becomes taxing and temporary. When they pulled us into awareness, they killed us. Then we get saddled with a seven minute relay, at best. A soft limbo that's only palliative and comforting in theory. A momentary respite that's a cosmic joke of course and still resented by the divine. A petty haggling of which we weren't even a part of. When forced into an existence, we turned into the ward of all that breathes, subjected to the known universe, and though always partial to the unknown, which wasn't really found and never understood, is lost to us.”
“We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own free will. You might remember that when you're tempted to walk out in a huff, defy my orders, and behave like a selfish brat. You got that?”
Source: Honeymoon in Bondage
“We’ve been friends since our first day together.”
Source: Memories
“We've been given the power to have what we visualize, but we tend to visualize what we already have.”
Source: The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life
“We’ve been good friends for years. We eat to together once a week on average. We’ve gone on holidays together. We’ve known each other well enough and long enough to have developed a natural ease and familiarity with one another. They’re the kind of people I can quite happily spend time with doing nothing at all. I’m quite serious. It’s not unusual to find us sitting together, all reading books and barely talking for a couple hours or so. We have an unspoken rule that it’s entirely okay to doze off on each other’s couches.”
Source: 7 Myths about Singleness
“We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.”
Source: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“We’ve been growing toward each other from the opposite sides of the same path since the beginning, haven’t we?”
Source: Believe Me
“We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I’m secure in my sexuality.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“We've been here three days already, and I've yet to cook a single meal. The night we arrived, my dad ordered Chinese takeout from the old Cantonese restaurant around the corner, where they still serve the best egg foo yung, light and fluffy and swimming in rich, brown gravy. Then there had been Mineo's pizza and corned beef sandwiches from the kosher deli on Murray, all my childhood favorites. But last night I'd fallen asleep reading Arthur Schwartz's Naples at Table and had dreamed of pizza rustica, so when I awoke early on Saturday morning with a powerful craving for Italian peasant food, I decided to go shopping. Besides, I don't ever really feel at home anywhere until I've cooked a meal.
The Strip is down by the Allegheny River, a five- or six-block stretch filled with produce markets, old-fashioned butcher shops, fishmongers, cheese shops, flower stalls, and a shop that sells coffee that's been roasted on the premises. It used to be, and perhaps still is, where chefs pick up their produce and order cheeses, meats, and fish. The side streets and alleys are littered with moldering vegetables, fruits, and discarded lettuce leaves, and the smell in places is vaguely unpleasant. There are lots of beautiful, old warehouse buildings, brick with lovely arched windows, some of which are now, to my surprise, being converted into trendy loft apartments.
If you're a restaurateur you get here early, four or five in the morning. Around seven or eight o'clock, home cooks, tourists, and various passers-through begin to clog the Strip, aggressively vying for the precious few available parking spaces, not to mention tables at Pamela's, a retro diner that serves the best hotcakes in Pittsburgh.
On weekends, street vendors crowd the sidewalks, selling beaded necklaces, used CDs, bandanas in exotic colors, cheap, plastic running shoes, and Steelers paraphernalia by the ton. It's a loud, jostling, carnivalesque experience and one of the best things about Pittsburgh. There's even a bakery called Bruno's that sells only biscotti- at least fifteen different varieties daily. Bruno used to be an accountant until he retired from Mellon Bank at the age of sixty-five to bake biscotti full-time. There's a little hand-scrawled sign in the front of window that says, GET IN HERE! You can't pass it without smiling.
It's a little after eight when Chloe and I finish up at the Pennsylvania Macaroni Company where, in addition to the prosciutto, soppressata, both hot and sweet sausages, fresh ricotta, mozzarella, and imported Parmigiano Reggiano, all essential ingredients for pizza rustica, I've also picked up a couple of cans of San Marzano tomatoes, which I happily note are thirty-nine cents cheaper here than in New York.”
Source: Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses
“We've been knocking out the basics all morning.... Asian chicken salad, fruit medley with mint, wheat berry pilaf with dried cherries and almonds. Kai roasted six chickens and a turkey breast, and grilled a whole flank steak, which he sliced thin across the grain. We have green beans in a spicy garlic marinade, braised black kale with smoked turkey, and roasted brussels sprouts. Our signature Morning Energy muffins, bursting with golden raisins and walnuts, sunflower seeds, millet, flax, and sweet with honey are cooling on a rack. We have thawed today's soup specials, which we cook over the weekends and freeze for the week, a golden butternut squash, smooth as velvet, and a chunky pasta fagioli, with whole wheat pasta, white beans, and loads of veggies.”
Source: Good Enough to Eat
“We’ve been living under siege so long that fear stopped making”
Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
“We've been making solidarity cakes this morning in support of you, ma chere," Franco said. "We're featuring your to-die-for black walnut spice cakes with cream cheese and cardamom frosting as today's special."
"Thanks, you guys," Lani said sincerely.
"Every detail! Call me!" Charlotte ordered before clicking off.
Lani stood there, pastry bag still at the ready, and looked at the racks in front of her. And thought about her friends in New York. Solidarity cakes. Salvation cakes. "Healing the disgruntled, displaced, and just plain dissed," she said, smiling briefly. "One cake at a time.”
Source: Sugar Rush
“We’ve been playing chess with this iPhone app. He hasn’t made a move in so long our last game got forfeited. Ten days, or something like that.”
“You two play chess on your phones?” Ty asked.
“Yeah.” Zane shrugged.”
Source: Crash & Burn
“We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie; every person, place, thing and idea is a lie. I do not function properly. I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.”
Source: Unravel Me
“We’ve been simultaneously taught to act like males while the traits of boys and men have been continuously vilified.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“We’ve been slaves to what’s stored in our brain for so long that it takes a herculean effort to clear it out. But it is essential for a good life that you do.”
Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition
“We’ve been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don’t. There’s no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. There’s only life. And whether you honor it or ignore it. It’s ironic, but in trying to find God we’ve been ignoring life.”
Source: Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files
“We've been taught to search outside ourselves, but the real solution was never out there. It's not about finding more energy, it's about learning to access and direct it.”
“We've been through this Freddy. The last time you played fourth at the whist consortium, you beheaded the queen of hearts, and that ended badly for all concerned.”
Source: A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure
“We've been through this, Orm. Orks have no... reproductive anatomy, and consequently no understanding of sex or gender.'
'Some of us understand sexangender', interrupted Biter, keen as ever to demonstrate their unusual expertise in humans. 'I find it all... quite funny.”
Source: Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh!
“We've been trained in your tradition,' said Natalie. 'We're honorary men.”
Source: Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
“We've been trying to recreate Mum's Coorg pandhi curry."
"Is that so?" said Mynah. "How was that supposed to work without the kachampuli?"
"The what?"
"Kachampuli," she repeated.
"What is kachampuli supposed to be?" Dad asked, sounding out the syllables carefully.
Mynah let out a shriek of laughter. "Are you telling me you've been trying to make Coorg pandhi curry all this time, and neither of you knows about kachampuli? Which is only the most essential ingredient?"
"But surely the pandhi is the most essential ingredient," Anna protested, gesturing in the direction of the pork rind sitting on the counter. "Otherwise it would be called kachampuli curry."
Mynah ignored that and wiped tears of laughter from her eyes. "Kachampuli, my sweet ignorant ones, is what gives the pandhi curry its distinct flavor. It's a little vinegar, and it's made from a limey sort of fruit they grow in Coorg." She marched to one of the cupboards, rooted around in the back, and retrieved a dusty bottle with a sealed cap. Inside gleamed a thick, dark liquid. "Behold," she said dramatically, "kachampuli.”
Source: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love
“We've been very lonely, but we had it easy. Because death is so heavy - we, too young to know about it, couldn't handle it. After this you and I may end up seeing nothing but suffering, difficulty and ugliness, but if only you'll agree to it, I want for us to go on to more difficult places, happier places, what ever comes, together. I want you to make the decision after you're completely better, so take your time thinking about it. In the mean time, though, don't disappear on me.”
Source: Kitchen