„We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.“
Fonte: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
Eugene H. Peterson1
1932 - 2018Citações relacionadas
„We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
"Einstein's famous saying in Copenhagen", as quoted in a FBIS Daily Report https://books.google.de/books?id=DfQTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22We+cannot+solve%22: East Europe (4 April 1995), p. 45
Disputed
„Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us.“
— Patrick Rothfuss, livro The Wise Man's Fear
Fonte: The Wise Man's Fear
„Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are“
— Jeannette Walls, livro The Glass Castle
Fonte: The Glass Castle
„If we accept it as such, we will understand that it is up to us all, and up to us alone to do something about it. We cannot blame the previous rulers for everything, not only because it would be untrue, but also because it would blunt the duty that each of us faces today: namely, the obligation to act independently, freely, reasonably and quickly.“
— Václav Havel playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic 1936 - 2011
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)
Contexto: Why do I say this? It would be very unreasonable to understand the sad legacy of the last forty years as something alien, which some distant relative bequeathed to us. On the contrary, we have to accept this legacy as a sin we committed against ourselves. If we accept it as such, we will understand that it is up to us all, and up to us alone to do something about it. We cannot blame the previous rulers for everything, not only because it would be untrue, but also because it would blunt the duty that each of us faces today: namely, the obligation to act independently, freely, reasonably and quickly. Let us not be mistaken: the best government in the world, the best parliament and the best president, cannot achieve much on their own. And it would be wrong to expect a general remedy from them alone. Freedom and democracy include participation and therefore responsibility from us all.
„We cannot lose Poland. If this line is crossed, they will grab us, too.“
— Vyacheslav Molotov Soviet politician and diplomat 1890 - 1986
Statement, as quoted in Surviving the Millennium (1994) by Hall Gardner, p. 236, with citations to Molotov Remembers (1993) by Felix Chuev, p. 54
„The first thing they did was pick up survivors. Because we are equipment, too. As long as the Republic takes care of us, we'll take care of it.“
— Matthew Stover, livro Shatterpoint
CT6/774, p. 411
Shatterpoint (2004)
„We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.“
— Niels Bohr Danish physicist 1885 - 1962
Quoted in Philosophy of Science Vol. 37 (1934), p. 157, and in The Truth of Science : Physical Theories and Reality (1997) by Roger Gerhard Newton, p. 176
Contexto: What is it that we humans depend on? We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character … We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.
„Be of good cheer; for if our guests are sensible men, they will bear with us; and if they are not, we need not care about them.“
— Socrates classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470 - -399 a.C.
Diogenes Laertius
„The words of our childhood became strangers to us- we couldn't use them in the same way and so we chose not to use them at all. Life demanded a new language.“
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
Fonte: The History of Love (2005), P.6
„We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.“
— Grant Morrison writer 1960
Fonte: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
„All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.“
— James Frey, livro A Million Little Pieces
page 332
Fonte: A Million Little Pieces (2003)
Contexto: All of us started out normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives we got lost. Though we are here at this Clinic trying to find our way back, we all know that most of us will never get there. Things like the fight allow us to dream, and take us away from here, and allow us to imagine what the normal World must be like and how normal people must live in it.
„We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.“
— Anne Bishop American fiction writer 1955
Fonte: Daughter of the Blood
„We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us,
Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard.“
— Osip Mandelstam, Stalin Epigram
"Stalin Epigram" (November 1933) (Russian: Мы живем, под собою не чуя страны... http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/mandelshtam/my-zhivem-pod.html; English: "We live, not sensing our own country beneath us", http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Russian/MoreMandelstam.htm#_Toc103483111) trans. A. S. Kline.
„If we are a great national institution, if we care about the legacy left to us by those who have served before us, if we care about the legacy we leave to those who, in turn will protect and secure Australia, then it is up to us to make a difference. If you’re not up to it, find something else to do with your life. There is no place for you amongst this band of brothers and sisters.“
— David Morrison Australian army general 1956
Message regarding unacceptable behaviour (2013)
„We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.“
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, livro By the Shores of Silver Lake
Fonte: By the Shores of Silver Lake
„And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it!“
— Norman Vincent Peale American writer 1898 - 1993
Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)
„It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.“
— Robin Jones Gunn American writer 1955
Fonte: Gardenias for Breakfast
„If we don’t end war, war will end us.“
— H. G. Wells, livro The Shape of Things to Come
Things to Come (1936)
Contexto: John Cabal: If we don’t end war, war will end us.
