Top 100 We'be Quotes
#1. Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?
Barbara Park
#2. And must we be divided? Must we part?"
"Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.
William Shakespeare
#3. As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?
Swami Vivekananda
#4. If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries."
Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with boundaries."
"Yes, and the ocean is damp. Can we be done with
the understatements now?
Rachel Vincent
#5. I think really the whole problem with racism and its continuing legacy in this country is that we simply love it. Who would we be without the 'struggle?'
Kara Walker
#6. We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
Madeleine Stowe
#7. Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?
Jim Morrison
#8. Will we be teachable through the dark moments and difficult seasons?
Anonymous
#9. When the dust settles and we look back,
will we be okay with what we see?"
End Times Alaska by Craig Martelle
Craig Martelle
#10. Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, "Might we be human?" But Fastidious did not reply.
Lois Lowry
#12. No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.
Bruno Bettelheim
#13. You'll lose your audience and then where will we be? We have future gray-eyed babies to feed, you know.
Julia Quinn
#14. There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.
David Lloyd-Jones
#15. Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.
Jerry Della Femina
#16. I'm not playing daddy. I am Daddy and you are Mommy. Shouldn't we be making out instead of fighting?
Toni Aleo
#17. Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships?
Nick Hornby
#18. Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex. Have you ever gone a week without a rationalization?
Jeff Goldblum
#19. We constantly encounter themes that arouse sexual desire, often coupled with themes of violence. If our collective consciousness is filled with violent sexual seeds, why should we be surprised when there is sexual abuse of children, rape, and other violent acts?
Thich Nhat Hanh
#20. Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God's desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.
Billy Graham
#21. Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards
Andrei Tarkovsky
#22. What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
Caroline Knapp
#23. 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
#24. Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something
constructive?
Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid ... ?
Tom Stoppard
#25. Sooner or later, we are going to face death; should we be making preparations while we are living?
Billy Graham
#26. If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
James Lee Burke
#27. Should I go back to my room tonight?" Ty asked out of the blue. "Or will we be able to work together and fuck each other senseless at the same time?
Abigail Roux
#28. The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
Eric Hoffer
#29. The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
Billy Graham
#30. Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.
Hal Zina Bennett
#31. How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?
Brit Hume
#32. The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
Freeman Dyson
#33. How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?
Paulo Coelho
#34. I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.
Walt Disney
#35. Not only should we be giving Amtrak the money it needs to continue to provide services; we should be providing security money to upgrade their tracks and improve safety and security measures in the entire rail system.
Corrine Brown
#36. If we be never obliged to relieve others' burdens, but when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we bear our neighbor's burdens, when we bear no burden at all?
Jonathan Edwards
#38. Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Thomas Hardy
#39. When I'm creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.
Nino Rota
#40. Shouldnt we be the light brigades rather than the bandwagon?
Heather Mizeur
#41. What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
W. Somerset Maugham
#42. Do we know ourselves - our "self"? How are we supposed to be ourselves if we are not our selves? And how can we be our selves without knowing who we are, such that we are certain of being the ones we are?
Martin Heidegger
#43. Yo, bredren, we be the illest,' went my proclamation. 'We be the dopest,' Anand would follow. 'Our tunes are going to be good,' Nishant would finish with.
Nikesh Shukla
#44. Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#45. Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?
Jonathan Haidt
#46. Was nervous about seeing him, partly because I find him less interesting now than I did when we were both nineteen (unkind of me to admit, but can't we be honest about how people change?),
Emily St. John Mandel
#48. If we didn't execute bankers and rogue traders found guilty of financial mischief, it might give them the clear signal that it's actually okay, and then where would we be?
Jasper Fforde
#49. Would we be tormenting ourselves over the Kennedy assassination today if fifty cameras had been rolling, instead of just poor Abraham Zapruder's?
David Brin
#50. I said, "If we were good always would we be happy always?"
"No," said Grandmother.
"Then I shall be bad.
Jeanette Winterson
#51. The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.
Boris Yeltsin
#52. How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?
Christopher Fry
#53. he was more grateful for Truffey's generous forgiveness than he would have been for the richest living in Scotland. Such forgiveness is just giving us back ourselves - clean and happy. And for what gift can we be more grateful?
George MacDonald
#54. Hey, Stone. I heard a new CIA joke. Okay: how can we be sure the CIA wasn't involved in the Kennedy assassination?" "I don't know," said Stone. "How can we be sure?" "He's dead, isn't he?" said Wood. They
Neil Gaiman
#55. I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
Victor Hugo
#56. AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#57. There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
Dan Aykroyd
#58. Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.
Terry Pratchett
#59. Jesus Christ. Men looking for ways to seem more macho. That's like ninety-eight percent of the world's problems.""I know. But should we be saying that, since we're guys?"Seb shrugged. "No matter. World's kinda fucked anyways.
Andrea Speed
#60. Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
Walter Savage Landor
#61. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?
Margaret Atwood
#62. On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#63. We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?
Mitch Albom
#64. I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and Mubarak still there and Saddam [Hussein] there than the crap we have got looking at us now?
Chris Matthews
#65. We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?
Diogenes
#66. How can we be so good for each other in so many ways, and so bad in just as many others?
R.K. Lilley
#67. The process, indeed, of nature is this: that just in the same manner as our birth was the beginning of things with us, so death will be the end; and as we were noways concerned with anything before we were born, so neither shall we be after we are dead. And
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#68. Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.
Robert McNamara
#69. Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings? ... Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?
Piers Anthony
#70. I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
Nadine Labaki
#71. A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#72. Sure, we had no audience but each other, but what kind of supervillains would we be if we didn't keep up the drama?
Richard Roberts
#73. The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
Nancy Gibbs
#74. Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces ... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!
Fulton J. Sheen
#75. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
#76. The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.
Marianne Williamson
#77. Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?
Liam O'Flaherty
#78. The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?
Chief Seattle
#79. Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially
Erich Von Daniken
#80. May we be enlightened by a ray of the light that comes from Bethlehem, the light of He who is 'The Greatest' and made himself small.
Pope Benedict XVI
#81. May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.
Thomas S. Monson
#82. When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
Nelson Mandela
#83. Firstly, should we be selling and buying irradiated meat? I think that's up to the consumer, ultimately. But the second point is, this irradiated meat should be clearly and unmistakably labeled as irradiated meat.
Eric Schlosser
#84. Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.
Alice Walker
#85. Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?
Anthony Trollope
#86. Friends?"
"Aye. We're friends now."
"Are we?"
"Of course we are!" he replied cheerfully - just like his name. "Why wouldn't we be friends?"
"Because you threw me into a tree?"
"To help you. You keep forgetting that part.
G.A. Aiken
#87. The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that is cowardice. Hiding, a form of dishonesty, prevents true community.
Rosalie De Rosset
#88. One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?
Spike Milligan
#89. Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater
#90. Where would we be in this soulless universe if there weren't a few people who hold on to memories, their hearts yearning for long-lost feelings?
Nicolas Barreau
#91. Love is the greatest apologetic. It is the essential component in reaching the whole person in a fragmented world. The need is vast, but it is also imperative that we be willing to follow the example of Jesus and meet the need.
Ravi Zacharias
#92. We arrived in Ulm just after the honeymoon, the moving there only prolonging it. Having slept that glorious jet-lag sleep right into evening on our first day, we took a walk through the streets of our new city, laughing aloud at our good fortune. How could we be living here?
Megan Rich
#93. 1SA17.9 If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us. 1SA17.10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.
Anonymous
#94. Take thou thy arms and come with me,
For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive
To air our cause, although we be but two.
Great is the strength of feeble arms combined,
And we can combat even with the brave.
Homer
#96. We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
Mary Astell
#97. Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.
Chuck Palahniuk
#98. How can we be soulful in a world thats soulless
How can this world be so full yet we treat each other so less.
YP
#99. We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn't we be ambushed by joy?
Cinda Williams Chima
#100. How wise should we be if, with joyful certainty, we accepted each unfolding of His will as a proof of His faithfulness and love!
Susannah Spurgeon
