Top 100 What We Have Quotes
#1. That's kind of what we have here. I think we've just grown apart, we have different philosophies, and we're going in different directions,
Lance Burton
#3. What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.
Ellen Langer
#4. He [The Dalai Lama] has made it his mission to say, "We can't afford to squabble over minor differences, we have to concentrate on what we have in common, our common mission, our common culture - and indeed what we have in common with the rest of the world."
Pico Iyer
#5. That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.
Margaret Cho
#6. Love slays what we have been,
That we may be what we were not.
Kenneth Rexroth
#7. This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.
Michele Bachmann
#8. Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.
Bernie Sanders
#9. I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
Abbas Kiarostami
#10. What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#11. So many things fail to interest us, simply because they don't find in us enough surfaces on which to live, and what we have to do is to increase the number of planes in our mind, so that a much larger number of themes can find a place in it at the same time
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#12. . You're not fussed about unique or being impressed. After everything we've been through, the lives that we've already lived. What we have survived to get to this point brought me to the conclusion that all that matters, is you, me and our family
Lesley Jones
#13. Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
Joseph Hall
#14. We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.
Aaron Ciechanover
#15. Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?
Jacob Bronowski
#16. That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
Herschel Walker
#18. So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep.
Kathy Troccoli
#19. We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.
Aaron Peirsol
#21. Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are there as a reminder of what we have been through ...
James A. Murphy
#22. For it falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.
William Shakespeare
#23. To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.
Dean Koontz
#24. Grace does not depend on what we have done, but on what God has done for us.
Wendy Blight
#25. We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.
Jim Lovell
#26. We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
Audre Lorde
#27. We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world.
Bonnie L. Oscarson
#28. It.
Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#29. I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.
Gloria Steinem
#30. If we let go of guilt, we will see innocence; however, a guilt-ridden person will see only evil. The basic rule is that we focus on what we have repressed.
David R. Hawkins
#31. It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard.
Saint Peter
#32. As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.
Lee Roberson
#35. Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
Tony Evans
#36. Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.
Frederick Lenz
#37. Change comes, even in the face of overwhelming odds. And the recognition of the changes we have already made, of what we have won, inspires us to fight even harder. When
Bernie Sanders
#38. We all have to stand by our life's work as the true test of what we have done for the world.
Matthew Lesko
#39. The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.
Craig Venter
#40. We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.
Cynthia Hand
#41. My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
Mike Huckabee
#42. What we are is God's gift to us. What we do with our lives is our gift to Him. He accepts us as we are. He's not going to judge us on the basis of what He has given someone else, but on the basis of what we have done with what He has given us. Never be discouraged by what you don't have. Having
Warren W. Wiersbe
#43. We become more devoted to pleasing other people than establishing a relationship with ourselves. We believe we are what we have and what we do and we believe we are what other people think we are. Ego is in many ways the primary cause of most of our misconception and woe.
Evan Sutter
#44. When we look at what we have to offer - our skills, gifts, and desires - before asking what is needed of us, we are putting the cart before the horse, or the gifts before the call. The question a disciple must first ask is not, "What am I good at?" but rather, "What is required of me?
Jeff Goins
#45. We don't know what we have until we find it.
Paulo Coelho
#46. We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.
Michael Emerson
#47. Profit is what we have left after we make a donation to a worthwhile cause.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#48. The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.
George Downame
#49. The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.
Peter Mandelson
#50. We need to keep our families intact. We need to keep our relationships strong, because whatever happens is going to happen. And we've got to enjoy our life, and we've got to make the most of what we have today.
Victoria Osteen
#51. There's a void inside most people.
It's been created by not being contented with who we are, not being happy with what we have, not being present and looking for something more, better, more exciting out there.
And we've always been trying to fill this void with something external.
Lidiya K.
#52. it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.
Angelina Weld Grimke
#53. What we have here," I said, "is a roomful of culprits, with varying levels of culpritude.
Robert B. Parker
#54. As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.
Steve Buyer
#55. It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.
Teddy Roosevelt
#56. Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.
Lee Scott
#57. How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
Iris Murdoch
#58. To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.
Emma McLaughlin
#59. We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.
Marcel Proust
#60. We can only believe in what we have already known, preconceived, and imagined. But this is beyond any imagination.
Alan W. Watts
#61. Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.
Svante Arrhenius
#62. If you ever think of takin' off, if you ever get scared enough at what I do for a living that you decide you can't hack it, then you best think again because unless what we have turns shit like everything else in my life, I'm not ever letting you go.
Kristen Ashley
#65. Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have.
Pema Chodron
#67. it is not only what we have that enhance our dignity but what we do with what we have also magnifies our reputation to the highest level
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#68. If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.
Ben Carson
#69. That you should write down valuable ideas that occur to you as soon as possible goes without saying: we sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#70. I love revisions ... We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.
Katherine Paterson
#71. Perhaps we have been guilty of speaking against someone and have not realized how it may have hurt them. Then when someone speaks against us, we suddenly realize how deeply such words hurt, and we become sensitive to what we have done.
Theodore Epp
#72. What we have been is an established and unchangeable
fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless
opportunity.
Jim Rohn
#73. Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people.
Frank Fools Crow
#74. The essence of sin is "I do not want to have God in my life." And the essence of God's judicial wrath is to give us what we have asked for.
Timothy Keller
#75. We change the earth and our changes may only be temporary; yet the signs of what we have done may persist, as these mounds did.
Alexander McCall Smith
#76. Let's just enjoy what we have now and worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes.
James Hampton
#77. Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are.
Sri Chinmoy
#78. What we have here is good and if you'd get over your thoughts that it isn't gonna last, you'd realise how much better it's gonna get if you'd just relax.
Kristen Ashley
#79. We will not relate what we have been told, but the things which we have tasted and handled-of the love of Christ.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#80. If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.
James Luceno
#81. Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
Gore Vidal
#82. I think the truth to living fully is to appreciate what we have, day by day, regardless of what we know might come our way.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#83. We will not always be here, so let's make the best use of what we have, when we still have it.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#84. What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.
Christopher Reeve
#85. Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.
Timothy Keller
#86. We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.
Milan Kundera
#87. I often envy my friends who are visual artists. Visual artists have other things to work with. Other media. I envy my sculptor friends: they have hunks of matter. Marble. Wood. It's physical, which I find very appealing. What we have is nothing, is just glaringly blank.
Dani Shapiro
#88. In the end, it doesn't matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished - a life without heart is not worth living.
John Eldredge
#89. What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
Sigmar Gabriel
#90. The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
Norm MacDonald
#91. The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
Joyce Brothers
#92. What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures that, if true, point to the existence of a theory.
Lee Smolin
#93. Jesus' idea of blessing is completely contrary to ours. It has nothing to do with what we have, and everything to do with who we are.
Cole Ryan
#94. We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.
Kent Nerburn
#95. We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
Bill Gates
#96. Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.
Henri Nouwen
#97. I want people to judge me on what we have achieved after five years. I will go back to my home in Bermuda, play some golf and live a healthier life.
Fergus McCann
#98. Most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.
Lilith Saintcrow
#99. If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.
Smith Wigglesworth
#100. No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
C.J. Mahaney
