Top 100 Quotes About Where We Are
#1. In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.
Ella Baker
#2. Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.
Antony Gormley
#3. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.
Sakyong Mipham
#4. It's finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.
Mona Rodriguez
#5. Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.
Charles Simonyi
#6. If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
Brian Aldiss
#7. We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.
Danielle Rohr
#8. We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial institutions in America today have assets of roughly $10 trillion; equivalent to 58 percent of the GDP of the United States of America.
Bernie Sanders
#9. Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does
Rob Bell
#10. Where we are going is touching the invisible, invisible becoming visible...
Deyth Banger
#11. I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.
Susan George
#12. I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#13. Before we can consider which way to go from where we are, we must agree on where we want to end up. If our desire is to become happy, then let's begin by having a realistic understanding of what it means to be happy.
Will Bowen
#14. Mistakes are ... immensely useful ... they show us ... where we are right now and what we need to do next
William Westney
#15. The Lord doesn't care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we are, no matter how humble our circumstances. He will use - in His own way and for His holy purposes - those who incline their hearts to Him.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#16. I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either.
Jonathan Swift
#17. I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.
Matt Bomer
#18. The point at which society moves towards our views is a point where we are significantly closer to the vegan world that we are all working toward.
Bruce Friedrich
#19. The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.
Rebecca Solnit
#20. From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.
Yehuda Amichai
#21. When we're determined to reach an objective, it's the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be that lights a fire under us.
Adam M. Grant
#22. Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
Brit Marling
#24. Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#25. The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.
Nicolas Berggruen
#26. One rarely knows where to begin the search for meaning, though by necessity, we can only start where we are.
Anne Lamott
#27. I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.
Donald Trump
#28. When we want to move beyond the pain, when we want to feel better, when we are ready to move beyond where we are, emotionally and spiritually, we must forgive.
Iyanla Vanzant
#31. Hard work does pay, and you just have to continue to work, and you got two guys, when you're talking about Gary and myself, we have a God-given talent, but we worked at it and we're happy to be where we are today.
Jason Kidd
#32. We need to know where we are going and how we plan to get there. Our dreams and aspirations must be translated into real and tangible goals with priorities and time frames.
Merlin Olsen
#33. It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.
Charles De Lint
#34. God loves us faithfully. He loves me and he loves you just as we are, today, right now, right here, no matter where we are or what's going on in our lives. God listens to our words and hears the quiet whispers in our hearts. Each of us is given the opportunity to have a unique relationship with God.
Lizzie Velasquez
#35. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#36. We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.
Lisa Randall
#37. A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#38. Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we're unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That's where you get to show who you really are
Sara Gran
#39. I have traveled all over the world and gone to the highest peaks, and the densest jungles. The Carpathain Mountians will always be my homeland, but my home is a woman. Solange Sangria. You are home to me. Your body is my home. Your mind. Your heart and soul. It matters little to me where we are.
Christine Feehan
#40. Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.
Tom Vanderbilt
#41. I think every election is sui generis. I think it starts with where we are in the country at this time, with what Americans are thinking, feeling and hoping, and it proceeds from there. And it is always about the future.
Hillary Clinton
#42. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider
Thomas Watson
#43. The Power of Relaxation is the lessening effect of stress. To achieve this we need to have the perfect platform to catalytically reach the summit of inner peace where we are at concord with our self, our friends and The Universe.
Anthony Pan
#44. Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story, so we went all the way up to an hour and forty-seven minutes. After that, I made some additional cuts and now we are where we are.
Kim Jee-woon
#45. Yes, you see, there's no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything that happens is the result of a calculated move that leads us to where we are.
J.M. Darhower
#46. Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
Oriana Fallaci
#47. We have a choice in our lives. We can be content with where we are, or we can set goals and continue to push ourselves beyond our limits. I'm ready to keep doing that. I want to be the first person with cerebral palsy to climb the tallest free-standing mountain in the world.
Bonner Paddock
#48. Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#49. The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?
Terry Pratchett
#50. Rural and traditional escapism. That's my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly live.
Fennel Hudson
#51. We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.
George Thorogood
#52. Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.
Sharon Salzberg
#53. Men and women balance each other out and we have to get to a point where we are comfortable with appreciating each other.
Beyonce Knowles
#54. I think we have arrived at the stage where we are making it too complicated. I know guys who can't play two rounds before running to their teachers.
Vijay Singh
#55. I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter.
Allen Ginsberg
#56. We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
Baal Shem Tov
#57. For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.
Melissa Etheridge
#60. that there is some place better than our earthly home - a space where we are accepted no matter what, a banquet table where we are called by name and not ridiculed for being different.
Alice J. Wisler
#61. We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals ... The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
C.S. Lewis
#62. We ourselves are not something apart from our circumstances. What we are and where we are are one and the same.
Brad Warner
#63. Satan wants to lure us into his traps, and he knows exactly what kind of "bait" will appeal to us. He knows what we're like, and he will attack us exactly where we are the weakest.
Billy Graham
#64. I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world.
Paul Haggis
#65. I'm trying to find out where we are going. Olivia. I already know you love me." I glared up at him in shock and he shrugged. "The fact that you can't say it - is a problem. I love you.
Tarryn Fisher
#66. I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family ... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.
Uwem Akpan
#67. There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
Orison Swett Marden
#68. But the truth is, home's an illusion. We try to create this place that's supposed to make us feel happy or safe, when in truth it's the people who are around us that matter. Where we are has nothing to do with it.
Suzanne Brockmann
#69. Science is not a boy's game, it's not a girl's game. It's everyone's game. It's about where we are and where we're going. Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.
Nichelle Nichols
#71. Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.
Debbie Ford
#72. When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.
A.H. Almaas
#73. Pain prompts us to face who we are and where we are. What we do with that experience defines who we become.
John C. Maxwell
#74. We always ken where we are! It's just sometimes mebbe we aren't sure where everything else is, but it's no' our fault if everything else gets lost! The Nac Mac Feegle are never lost!
Terry Pratchett
#75. While we must always begin from where we are, we need not stay where we are.
Neal A. Maxwell
#76. When we come to a place where we trust that God's timing is perfect, we can be content no matter where we are because we know that God will not leave us there forever. Maintaining a passion for the present means embracing the light we have where we are at this time and trusting that it is enough.
Stormie O'martian
#77. This moment, we are right where we need to be, right where we are meant to be.
Melody Beattie
#78. On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.
Derek Jarman
#79. Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.
Abel Ferrara
#80. Understanding the world is a door to believing what we are, where we are living in and what we expect to come out of our actions.
Auliq Ice
#81. My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
Gabby Douglas
#82. we were never meant to be what we are or where we are, we are looking for an escape, some music from the sun, the girl we never found. we are betting on the miracle again there before the purple mountains as the horses parade past so much more beautiful than our lives.
Charles Bukowski
#83. His presence is the only place where invisible weight is lifted. The only place where hidden, broken spaces are mended. The only place where we are defined apart from our successes and our failures.
Jennie Allen
#84. The spiritual journey starts with the realization that there's nothing more to wait for. The conditions are already perfect. There is no 'something else' that needs to happen before we begin. We start exactly where we are. After all, whether now or later, this is the only place we can begin
Ross Hostetter
#86. How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
David McCullough
#87. Study history. Separate fears and prejudices from facts. Recognize facts from propaganda. Invest energy in fighting for what you believe in. Analyze harder where we are going and what you are doing about it. What do you really believe in? How much do we care?
Mae Brussell
#88. Second, and far more powerfully, we want to believe that parents create criminals because in supposing that, we reassure ourselves that in our own house, where we are not doing such wrong things, we do not risk this calamity. I
Sue Klebold
#89. Too often we talk ourselves out of God's best. We allow doubts, fears, and discouraging things people have said to limit us and convince us to settle where we are. Negative voices always speak the loudest.
Joel Osteen
#90. We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are.
Nick Vujicic
#91. Oh, you know me, Jules," she answered. "I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going!" Much
R.J. Palacio
#92. We are most blessed when we serve Jesus where we are. - Pat Harris, as told to Kitty Chappell
Gary Chapman
#94. Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable.
Anthony Marra
#95. It is therefore only at the money moment - the moment of capitalist universality - that we can tell where we are in relation to value and surplus-value.
David Harvey
#96. We should never change our minds about where we are going, but always be curious about different ways to get there.
Simon Sinek
#97. Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are
Someone
#98. Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance.
Gabrielle Roth
#99. Cherishing the welfare of others to the point where we are unable to bear the sight of their misery.' The
Matthew Quick
#100. On any journey, we must find out where we are before we can plan the first step.
Kathy Boevink
