We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireNo we didn't light itBut we tried to fight it
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Quote:- We didn’t deny the obvious,but we didn’t entirely accept it either.I mean, we said hello to it each morningin the foyer. We patted its little headas it made a mess in the backyard,but we never nurtured it. Many nights the obvious showed upat our bedroom door, in its pajamas,unable to sleep, in need of a hug,and we just stared at it like an Armenian,or even worse— hid beneath the coversand pretended not to hear its tiny sobs.
Author:- Jeffrey McDaniel
Category:- poetry
Quote:- We didn’t know how to be horrible to each other. But looking back, not even knowing how to be horrible to each other—that unawareness—was the most horrible part.We had been politely covering each other’s eyes. In the end, I took my hand off his eyes first, and we split up cleanly. That farewell proved there was no love left between us because the last moment of lovers was never supposed to be so clean. We had simply moved from one dot toanother.
Shoko's Smile: Stories
Author:- Choi Eunyoung
Category:- Love
Quote:- We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.
The English Patient
Author:- Michael Ondaatje
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
The Cocktail Party
Author:- T.S. Eliot
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- We do indeed live in an 'information age," but we tend to forget that the sheer availability of information may or may not have any impact on whether or not that information can be distributed effectively, much less utilized properly. In fact, we could say that the greatest lie of the information age is that, just by piling up trillions of bits of data, we perpetually increase the intelligence of the human race as a collective whole. This optimistic assumption about the human mind has been almost universally accepted since the rise of humanism, and is completely false. There is a very rigid limit on the amount of knowledge that an individual can absorb and utilize, and it is never very much. We all live and die in ignorance of almost everything there is in the world to know. To say this is not pessimism, but is simply an honest acknowledgment of the vastness of our reality, its laws, and its mysteries.
The Case Against the Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought
Author:- Daniel Schwindt
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- We do matter. To believe that our lives are meaningful is the essence of faith. We are not as large, or as bright, or as eternal as the stars, but we carry humankind's message of love across the galaxy. We are the first. We are the world makers. Our nourishment is hope. Like the tender reed shaking in the wind, we will reach up to a new sun.
Glow
Author:- Amy Kathleen Ryan
Category:- hope
Quote:- We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
Author:- Anaïs Nin
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain," said Matthew. "It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.
Chain of Gold
Author:- Cassandra Clare
Category:- hope
Quote:- We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.
Type 1 Sociopath - When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
Author:- P.A. Speers
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- We do not have to renounce what we have; we have to forsake what we do not have. - Shree Shambav.
Journey of Soul - Karma
Author:- Shree Shambav
Category:- motivational
Quote:- We do not just go through life blindly,we create our own journey.Your faith has sculpted you into the human being you have become.
Finding Your Wings: Unleashing Your Creative Powers
Author:- Judie McCarty
Category:- motivational
Quote:- We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.
Author:- Michael Bassey Johnson
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- We do not like final knowledge, because knowledge, Phaedo, has no dignity or severity: it knows, understands, forgives, without attitude; it is sympathetic to the abyss, it is the abyss. Therefore we deny it and instead seek beauty, simplicity, greatness and severity, of objectivity and form. But form and objectivity, Phaedo, lead the noble one to intoxication and desire, to horrible emotional transgressions rejected by his beautiful severity, lead to the abyss. Us poets, I say, it leads there, for we are unable to elevate ourselves, instead we can only transgress.
Death in Venice
Author:- Thomas Mann
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- We do not like final knowledge, because knowledge, Phaedo, has no dignity orseverity: it knows, understands, forgives, without attitude; it is sympathetic to theabyss, it is the abyss. Therefore we deny it and instead seek beauty, simplicity,greatness and severity, of objectivity and form. But form and objectivity, Phaedo,lead the noble one to intoxication and desire, to horrible emotional transgressionsrejected by his beautiful severity, lead to the abyss. Us poets, I say, it leads there,for we are unable to elevate ourselves, instead we can only transgress.
Death in Venice
Author:- Thomas Mann
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- We do not need loathsome radical favoritism in this world. We need to prevent and cease the opposition of violent intolerance.
Author:- D.L. Lewis
Category:- best
Quote:- We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us
Open the Windows
Author:- Sukant Ratnakar
Category:- motivational
Quote:- We do not observe reality, we observe our REACTIONS to it.In other words:Reality is, in essence, neutral. YOU give it meaning.
#KnowTheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything
Author:- Gordana Biernat
Category:- motivational
Quote:- We do not play on Graves—Because there isn't Room—Besides—it isn't even—it slantsAnd People come—And put a Flower on it—And hang their faces so—We're fearing that their Hearts will drop—And crush our pretty play—And so we move as farAs Enemies—away—Just looking round to see how farIt is—Occasionally—
Author:- Emily Dickinson
Category:- poetry