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Friends,' said Laurent, 'Is that what we are?'
[ ... ]
Damen said, with helpless honesty, 'Laurent, I am your slave. — C.S. Pacat

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do. — Rick Perry

In the wake of Katrina, what you're witnessing and what we are very careful to depict is a form of patriotism. — David Simon

What you look like and how great you are rarely go hand in hand. Otherwise, we'd have no trouble judging good men from bad, now would we? — Dew Pellucid

You are hoping to master the experience. The pain is what we know. It's our barometer of reality. We never trust pleasure. — Stephanie Danler

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning. — Glenn Frey

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. — Lord Chesterfield

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. — Gordon B. Hinckley

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say — G.L.S. Shackle

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

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. — Sheryl Sandberg

Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know. — David Brooks

Let the truth be in your hearts, as it will be if you practise meditation, and you will see clearly what love we are bound to have for our neighbors. — Teresa Of Avila

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that. — Thich Nhat Hanh

If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for. — Franz Kafka

Scars tell stories of who we are and what we did. A person without marks hasn't done anything. — Kevin J. Anderson

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor? — Ray Davies

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. — Lillian B. Rubin

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn. — Stanley Fish

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. — Eleanor Powell

The purpose of this life and all its experiences is not to make ourselves what we think we should be. It is to unfold who we already are. — Gary Zukav

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them. — Piero Ferrucci

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. — Rosa Parks

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese. — Alex Chiu

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ? — Marilyn Manson

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying — Joyce Meyer

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. — Alvin Ailey

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves. — John Piper

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time. — Robert Anton Wilson

The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are. — Georgie Anne Geyer

What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited. — James P. Carse

There are no right and wrong choices," Tain said trying to keep his voice gentle. "There is only what we do with the choices we make. — Jennifer Ashley

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. — V.S. Pritchett

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage. — Henry Ford

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house ... Women should go out and be what they want — Malala Yousafzai

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day. — Tamora Pierce

We can bring into being, the things we dream. So much of what we are is, limited or expanded by, what we think. — Jaeda DeWalt

We are what we read. It's probably better that way. — Malcolm Gladwell

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. — Carl Sagan

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age? — Jennifer Aniston

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin

What a terrifying thought," he'd said, "that they're just as fucked-up as we are. — Jason M. Hough

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? — William Badke

What we do we keep a secret. We are not to be seen or heard by the rest of the world. — Mark Simo

We are at risk of trying to make food too sophisticated as we move along, changing ingredients to follow what's in vogue. — Anonymous

We are always impacting the world ... through our presence, energy, interactions - what kind of impact are we having? — Marianne Williamson

All we are not stares back at what we are. — W. H. Auden

We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is. — Salman Rushdie

All the stories are true. Of course, what Jace means ultimately is that stories are how we make sense of the world. — Cassandra Clare

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. — Hillary Clinton

We are what God calls us to be. Even if we're not what he's calling us to be, we are. Because he called us. — Tim Hiller

History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history. — Tony Brooks

But what are we looking for?"
"You'll know when you find it. — Sarah Winman

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears? — Wally Lamb

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. — Harvey Cox

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children. — Bernie Sanders

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next. — Dan Ariely

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation. — Tamsin Greig

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion. — Haruki Murakami

Even if we are often led to desire through the sense of beauty can you say that the beautiful is what we desire? — James Joyce

What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon, — Thomas Burnet

I am what I am because of who we all are. — Martin Luther King Jr.

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary. — George Sand

What we are doing in this moment is what matters the most. Be mindful. — Debasish Mridha

Capital wants to make us believe that we are what we sell. But we are what we give away. — Jorge Riechmann

In the end we are almost never happy or unhappy because of what happens to us; we are one or the other depending on the humor that flows inside us — Paolo Giordano

Until we care more about what God thinks than what other people think we are never truly free — Christine Caine

What a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)- ... — Junot Diaz

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both. — Ronald Reagan

Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility. — David Wessel

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. — Leo Buscaglia

You are always sending us to our deaths. We're soldiers, it is what we do. — B.E.L. Forsythe

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

All schools are bad and the one we attend is always the worst if it doesn't open our eyes. What — Thomas Bernhard

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid. — Steve Berry

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,
or our faith or lack of faith,
but only with what God has said — Gordon Lindsay

We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells. — Trevor Noah

What we are is more important than what we have or what is said of us. — Marvin J. Ashton

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? — Kazuo Ishiguro

Why don't we just call plans what they really are: guesses. — Jason Fried

We emerge from our Cloud of Ambiguity when we are ready or willing to let go of what has held us back. — Lisa A. Mininni

Presumption and despair are opposite deadly sins. We hear a lot about despair, and the need for hope; but what is presumption? — Peter Kreeft

What we do flows from who we are. — Charles W. Colson

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — J.K. Rowling

We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for our less fortunate brothers and sisters. — Dan O'Neill

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people. — Ralph Fiennes

Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for — Bob Goff

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God. — Os Guinness

We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant. — Ralph Ellison

Tonight is different. There are no limits. We are going to do what I want. You chose to come here. You will take the consequences... — Evie Hunter

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. — Epictetus

I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked at me and said, 'We're artists.' — Alexandra Cassavetes

What time are we upon and where do I belong? — Francesca Lia Block

In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it. — Julianne Moore

If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused. — Billy Graham

What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless. — David Guetta

We are drawn to what we lack. No one loves daylight more than a blind man. — Victor Hugo