Top 100 We Are We Quotes
#1. We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us.
Harper Lee
#2. These days we don't have to fit into something other people think we are. We've leveled the playing field, life is inclusive. I'm a mom, sex detective, wife, fearless, gentle - we can now, with grace, be all of what we are.
Mariska Hargitay
#3. I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed.
Cindy Sheehan
#4. Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.
Colin Quinn
#5. We're not afraid of who we are. We're afraid of who we think we're not.
John O'Leary
#6. I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.
Shay Mitchell
#7. Love is a deception that gives the illusion that we're not alone in this world. But we are. We are so terribly alone.
S.L. Boo
#8. It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years.
Drew Brees
#9. 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
#10. While we must always begin from where we are, we need not stay where we are.
Neal A. Maxwell
#11. Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.
Nhat Hanh
#12. It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!"
"We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.
Umberto Eco
#13. How strange we are. How different we are from how we think we are. We fall out of love only to fall in love with a duplicate of what we've left, never understanding that we love what we love and that it doesn't change.
Sara Majka
#14. I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.
John Gimlette
#15. I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#16. We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.
Angelina Jolie
#17. If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry.
Will Rogers
#18. No matter how omnipotent we think we are, we have damn little power to control our destinies.
Cynthia Freeman
#19. We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#20. We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.
Frederick Lenz
#21. The universe has designed us on purpose to who we are! We are God's MASTERPIECE!
Abhishek Kumar
#23. I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.
Alan Moore
#24. And because of who we are we react in mock surprise.
The curse of there must be more so don't breath here.
Steven Wilson
#25. I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
Drew Barrymore
#26. That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
Snoop Dogg
#27. You know that song, 'Woodstock.' It says 'We are stardust.' And we are. We come from stardust. Everything on earth is just ashes.
Priscille Sibley
#28. We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.
Wallace Stegner
#29. We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
Anita Moorjani
#30. Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.
Ray Davies
#31. We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.
Laverne Cox
#32. Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we'll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia only serves to make us more conscious of our sinfulness.
Judah Smith
#33. 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
#34. Since we are what we are, what shall we be But what we are? We are, we have Six feet and seventy years, to see The light , and then resign it for the grave .
Stephen Spender
#35. Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#36. I'd once heard that we are nothing but our stories. Forget the blood and bones and genes and cells. They're not what we are. We are, rather, our stories. We are an accumulation of experiences that we have fashioned into our own grand, sweeping narrative.
Ken Ilgunas
#37. Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
#38. Our clinging to the opinions of others reveals how superficial we are. We have little to stand on. We have to be kept alive by adulation and praise. Those who are deeply rooted in the love of God can enjoy human praise without being attached to it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#39. If we are willing to allow our dark side to be a part of the whole of who we are, we will find it comes equipped with all the power, skill, intelligence, and force needed to do great things in the world.
Debbie Ford
#40. We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.
Jim Butcher
#41. The real you is not sad, angry, depressed, ashamed, hurt, bitter or lost. These things are not real. They feel real but they're not. As spiritual beings living a brief human existence, this is not who we are. We are beautiful, radiant, joyful and loving.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#42. If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others
Sunday Adelaja
#43. Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Loren Eiseley
#44. We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are ... We are all of them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. I think after a time there won't be anything left to be interesting for mankind. Computers are about to do everything for us. Cellphones are smarter than we are. We'll embrace spirituality because we'll be bored of everything else.
Damian Marley
#46. Maybe this was a selfish choice. Someone nobler than me might have given Okiku the final peace she deserves. Someone with less baggage that she would have let him.
But flawed as we are, we are perfect together.
After all, I'm no hero.
Rin Chupeco
#47. Conservatives are always right about everything. We are. We are.
Monica Crowley
#48. Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.
Neal Barnard
#49. I've always had a fascination with vampires. It's not that I'm exactly fascinated with the dark side. It's the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.
Sheryl Lee
#51. Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
John Green
#52. Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that.
Frederick Lenz
#53. No matter how capable we are, we need God every day, living in us and acting through us. We need his courage and his hope, his love and his companionship. We need his salvation. We can't live without God.
Philip Yancey
#54. 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
#55. Words are not simply an expression of the self; they help to create the self. In struggling to say what we are, we become what we say.
Thomas S. Kane
#56. I think sometimes we spend so much time trying to find out who we are we lose sight of who we want to be
Anonymous
#57. I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.
Terry Tempest Williams
#58. Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.
Frederick Lenz
#59. As long as we work within the budget and are responsible, which by the way it's amazing how many people aren't but we are. We've worked within the budget. We've worked within the time and we're making the movie that we want. That's the reward and I couldn't be happier.
Todd Farmer
#60. I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.
Ann Widdecombe
#61. Sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
Cecelia Ahern
#62. Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done.
John Barth
#63. We are what we are. We don't have to define it or label it.
Marijane Meaker
#64. Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.
Cassandra Clare
#65. Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves.
Julia Cameron
#66. We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined ... We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.
James M. Kouzes
#67. If we don't know where we are, we don't know who we are.
Wallace Stegner
#68. Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
Kurt Vonnegut
#70. We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
Mitch Albom
#71. No matter where we are, we'll always share the same sky. We can always find each other in the same constellation.
Roshani Chokshi
#72. We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.
David McCullough
#73. If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy
Amy Lee
#74. The pioneering anthropologist Louis Leakey once stated, Without an understanding of who we are, we cannot truly advance.
Gregg Braden
#75. Prayer is an expression of who we are ... We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
Thomas Merton
#76. We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
Mark Twain
#77. We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.
Kyle Schmid
#78. I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.
Madonna
#79. I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.
Bill Viola
#80. How we feel is not who we are. We might feel like failures, but as long as we are still trying, we are not failures. We are works in progress.
Toni Sorenson
#81. As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.
Anna Bligh
#82. And as long as the world spins on, we can still dance. No matter who we are, we can always dance.
Aaron Starmer
#83. Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
Andrzej Wajda
#84. Most of us are never seen, not clearly, and when we are we likely jump and run.
Peter Heller
#85. It's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.
Rosario Castellanos
#86. We're 5-3, that's what we are. We're 5-3 with three games left. Maybe it doesn't feel like it, but we've got to face reality. We're 5-3, and 8-3 looks a lot better than 5-6 or 6-5. We can make something of our season.
Bryan Cupito
#87. All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.
Lester Levenson
#88. God awaits us with open arms; we need only to take a step toward him like the Prodigal Son. But if, weak as we are, we don't have the strength to take that step, just the desire to take it is enough.
Andrea Tornielli
#89. We attract what we are. We attract who we are.
Bryant McGill
#90. Our culture is what we did together. What did Walt Whitman represent for all of us? What was his message to us? That is an inheritance, and when we squander that inheritance we act outside. We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.
Wynton Marsalis
#91. If we don't know who we are, we'll never know how we ought to live.
Billy Graham
#92. In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
A.A. Milne
#93. We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.
Adolf Hitler
#94. So here we are. We live in a world where we have the
Seth Godin
#95. We can break step. Magnificent living beings that we are, we humans are free to unravel our patterns.
Louisa Hall
#96. I firmly believe God continues to answer the prayers of His people even after He has taken them to heaven. Never forget that God isn't bound by time the way we are. We see only the present moment; God sees everything. We see only part of what He is doing; He sees it all.
Billy Graham
#97. The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't.
Wendell Berry
#98. If we don't find out where we are, we won't ever escape," she said, handing him the sheet of paper. "Wait here. I'll be right back." She jogged off, skirt swishing.
Brandon Sanderson
#99. We all choose our way of life, and that makes us who we are. We're not a reflection of our choice, we're a choice.
Sarvesh Jain
#100. We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like that, we're gone. The Peacemakers (The Nemesis Engines)
Olivier A. Blanchard
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