W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.”
“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply deny the assumptions of theism; we declare that the God idea, in all its features, is unreasonable and unprovable; we add, more vitally, that the God idea is an interference with the interests of human happiness and progress. We oppose religion not merely as a set of theological ideas; but we must also oppose religion as a political, social and moral influence detrimental to the welfare of humanity.”
Source: The meaning of atheism
“We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.”
“We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.”
“We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.”
Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews
“We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.”
“We affirm the harmony that we seek in order to provide the subconscious with a blue print of the work to be done.”
“We affirm the neutrality of Science ... Science is of no country. ... But if Science has no country, the scientist must keep in mind all that may work towards the glory of his country. In every great scientist will be found a great patriot.”
“We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism”
“We Africans are able to build companies that can operate in the global environment.”
“We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.”
Source: War and Laughter
“We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.”
“We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked.”
“We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.”
“We agree that man was not created to survive in space.”
“We agree with that goal [to secure our border] and will be working with [Donald Trump] to finance on construction of the physical barrier, including the wall on the southern border. The law is already on the books. I voted for it, like, ten years ago, but nothing has gotten done and now we have a president who actually wants to secure the border and we are all in favor of doing that.”
“We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community." That is the basis upon which we believe there should be government ownership of monopolistic enterprises.”
“We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.”
“We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.”
Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
“We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and financial stability.”
“We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.”
“We agreed that the true enemy of man is not man. Our enemy is not outside of us. Our true enemy is the anger, hatred, and discrimination that is found in the hearts and minds of man.”
Source: At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
“We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.”
“We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, and cherry-scented balms, and though we would be interested to see a wolf perched in a lonely mountain, we liked our household animals to betray their savage nature and live with us in our reality, which was not theirs. They would lie in our laps and let us stroke them through waves of virus, wars, drought and floods and we would try not to transmit our fear to them.”
Source: August Blue
“We agreed to love each other madly.”
Source: On the Road
“We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.”
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.”
“We aim for the higher calling of God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.”
“We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan.”
“We aim to be
men who’ll make
our mothers proud,
but we end up
making them cry,
and are only
slightly better
than our fathers,
at best”
Source: Crushed Black Velvet
“We aimed for no more than to have dominion over every creature that moved upon the earth. And so it came to pass that we stepped down there on a place we believed unformed, where only darkness moved on the face of the waters. Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones. But what else could we have thought? Only that it began and ended with us. What do we know, even now? Ask the children. Look at what they grew up to be. We can only speak of the things we carried with us, and the things we took away.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“We ain't alone in this universe.
We just don't wanna be disturbed.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“We ain't supposed to carry firearms when traveling into town but I'm always ready for someone to try and take a bite outta me, especially at the university. Everyone knows that academics are the most ruthless cutthroats around.”
Source: Dread Nation
“We ain't goin' study war no more.”
“We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.”
“We ain't got a lot, but we don't need anything. Covered in kisses, surrounded by love, showered with blessings from up above.”
“We ain't got nothing without love.
That's all we'll have when the world is through
Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.”
“We ain't have video recorders back in high school, or at least we couldn't afford them.”
“We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here.”
“We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up.”
“We ain't never gonna lose this land.”
Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)
“We ain't speak, clicking heat is our Morse code.”
“We alays blame the outer world for our failures, unhappiness and frustration. It is time to realise that it is health, harmony and wealth of our inner world that determine the degree of our success, joy, peace and bliss.”
“We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.”
“We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.”
“We all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.”
“We all [Ed Simmons,Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis] started together, so there were no rules - anything we wrote became television.”