Quotes starting with W Page 1079

“We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.”

Needs Mean War Sometimes Reason Use Sides Accepting Enemy Risk Protect Skills Threat Missions Obligation Innocent Crafts Warrior Cycles Disadvantaged

Author:Marcus Luttrell

“We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.”

Moving Time Taken Possibility Eternity Explanation Traveled Momentum Reprieve Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:Tom Stoppard

Source: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

“We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.”

Ideas Hard Able Proud Hollywood Storm Throat Jam Hail

Author:Zack Snyder

“We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.”

Trying Years Ignorance Thousand Thousand Years

Author:Joycelyn Elders

“We've tried to create something that's much more like being at a mountain resort. Many of these types of facilities done in the past paid little regard to structure or the environment and just focused on the sport of skiing. We've gone a step further and provided an immersive environment.”

Littles Done Past Sports Steps Gone Environment Type Mountain Paid Regard Structure Focused Resorts Facility Skiing

Author:Phil Taylor

“We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.”

Business Entrepreneurship Operations

Author:David Karp

“We've tried to regulate things so that you at least get to go home at night and not have to pull all-nighters and see them on weekends and things. So, you know, like everything in life, it's a balance.”

Knows Home Night Balance Weekend All Nighters

Author:Pete Docter

“We've tried to use some visual motifs [in Beauty and the Beast]. As far as the cinematography and the lensing and all that, we are presenting a different view into that world. It's a little sleeker, but we're keeping the gothic feel underneath it.”

World Feels Littles Different Use Views Beast Visuals Gothic Presenting Cinematography Different Views Motifs

Author:Brian Wayne Peterson

“We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.”

Thinking Men Mother Nations Women Mistake Benefits

Author:Joy Browne

“We've turned into a whining society.”

Whining

Author:Billy Corgan

“We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the wall. I make the silhouette of my hand into a duck. Robin makes his into a rabbit. Now my duck kisses his rabbit And-POOF!- it turns into a turkey. And for some reason this strikes us as hysterically funny. But you probably had to be there.”

Reason Hands Bigs Light Turns Rooms Wall Kissing Shadow Strikes Ducks Turkeys Rabbits Living Room Robins Silhouettes Turned Off Flashlights Hysterically Funny

Author:Sonya Sones

Source: What My Mother Doesn't Know

“We've turned the post-war economy that made America prosperous and rich inside out. Somehow most people believed they could get rich by going into debt to borrow assets that were going to rise in price. But you can't get rich, ultimately, by going into debt. In the end the creditors always win.”

People Winning Economy Rich Prosperous Get Rich

Author:Michael Hudson

“We've Tweeted him, we've stalked him [on] Facebook. We thought because he was so into volleyball he would have got back to us. But no luck so far.”

Country Girl Luck Volleyball Country Girl

Author:April Ross

“We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.”

People Past Night Media Horse Newspapers Ancestor Thieves Saturday Embarrassing Saturday Night

Author:Jimmy Carter

“We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.”

Levels Risk Heavy Accidents Boards Reviews Genesis Scrutiny Nasa Columbia

Author:Donald E. Brownlee

“We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.”

Needs Used Growth Capacity Aids

Author:Paul Kagame

“We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.”

Thinking Years Use Used Evil Pay Attention Dangerous Car Investing Derivatives

Author:Warren Buffett

“We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.”

World War Running Used Policy Truth Is Percent War Of The Worlds World War Ii Bullets Deficit Stimulus Gdp

Author:Warren Buffett

“We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb, But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.”

Wells Reason Enough Government Doors Judging Baby Brave Scary Core Killers Womb Tombs Rotting

Author:Roy Moore

“We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.”

Men Giving Humans Mean Ends Wanted Order Happened Crazy Century Possibility Produce Productions Human Life Consumption 20th Century 19th Century

Author:Erich Fromm

“We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly a lack of leadership.”

World America Factors Combination Places In The World Lack Of Leadership

Author:Mike Pence

“We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly it's been a lack of leadership.”

World

Author:Mike Pence

“We've weathered several periods when times weren't so good, and so I don't think we'll cancel our advertising now. In fact, we might even increase it.”

Thinking Facts Might Business Periods Increase Advertising Weathered

Author:Will Keith Kellogg

“We've witnessed a fire sale of American liberties at bargain basement prices, in return for the false promise of more security... The America being designed right now won't resemble the America we've been defending... The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.”

May Bigs America Realizing Liberty Fire Security Danger Brother Wall Return Promise Right Now Historical Storm Gates Castles Bargains Basements American Liberty False Promises Castle Walls

Author:Wayne LaPierre

“We've witnessed history in the making.”

Author:Maria Shriver

“We've witnessed so many revolutions in our society. Think of transportation, photography, or communications. Things once unimaginable have become seemingly impossible to live without.”

Thinking Impossible Communication Revolution Photography Our Society Transportation Unimaginable

Author:Wayne Pacelle

“We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans.”

War Rights

Author:Patrick Leahy

“We've worked together with Carine Roitfeld a lot; she's been a big supporter and helped me along with everything. Also, just the way she does her magazine - she's not afraid to do things differently or scared to put certain things in her magazine, a bit of controversy. She's a bit naughty. She likes sexy things.”

Together Scared Sexy Not Afraid Supporter Controversy Naughty

Author:Lara Stone

“We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.”

Thinking Hard Band

Author:Caroline Corr

“We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!”

Choices Politician Perseverance Hungry Persistence Grass Bombs Atoms Pakistan Not Giving Up Atom Bomb

Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

“We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.”

“We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about "everything that is," for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a "planetary agenda" for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise.”

Thinking Knows Wells Whole Religion Fields Various Connected Well Being Agendas Expertise Unprecedented

Author:Sallie McFague

“We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.”

Long Inspiration Happens Motivation Asks Evolve Mixtures Hydrogen Helium

Author:Jill Tarter

“We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.”

Divided Duality Another Life

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”

Earth Selfish Tyranny Rebel Selfish Gene

Author:Richard Dawkins

Source: The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition

“We, Americans, have the best country on the planet. We have schools, universities, food, water, energy, peaceful neighbors, low corruption, you name it, deepest and widest capital markets. That doesn't mean we shouldn't identify problems. We don't have a divine right to success.”

Mean Country Problem School Energy Water Divine Corruption Neighbor Peaceful Best Country

Author:Jamie Dimon

“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”

Believe Dies Freedom Feet Knees Honoring Veterans Veterans Day Thank You Thank A Veteran Thank You Veteran

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We, as a band, are going to try to do a remix pack for some of our latest songs and do as much as we can. Every single that we release gets that. That's the thing that we enjoy. You meet a lot of talented producers and DJs, you revisit friends and ask them if they want to do a remix, that's one of the beauties in it right now: hearing different versions of our versions and just being able to put those out, as well.”

Trying Different Song Enjoy Producers

Author:Christian Karlsson

“We, as a band, love each other. We're brothers. So we fight. Somebody will call somebody else a douchebag. At the end of the day, we look at how far we've come and realize it would be foolish for us to ever take this for granted. We have a family. And not just a family at home, the family that has grown up with us and supported us through the years. We can't let them down.”

Home Fighting Realizing Brother Foolish Granted

Author:Lajon Witherspoon

“We, as a country, cannot allow ourselves to become numb to this. We, as a media, cannot shrug it off as old news, because the real danger here is that, when Donald Trump lies to his supporters about the others who are trying to steal the election, some of his supporters believe him.”

Trying Believe Real Country Lying Danger Election Stealing Supporter Numb

Author:Brian Stelter

“We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.”

Two Country Policy Agree Currents Decades Significant Immigration Outdated Immigration Policy Significant Change

Author:Raul Grijalva

“We, as a nation, cannot wait for the Pearl Harbor of the information age. We must increase our vigilance to tackle this problem before we are hit with a surprise attack.”

Problem Age Nations Waiting Information Increase Surprise Pearls Harbors Vigilance Information Age Surprise Attacks

Author:Fred Thompson

“We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and its a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.”

People Needs Order Strong Animal Fit Labels

Author:Armin van Buuren

“We, as a society, can't tolerate very much difference.”

Differences Tolerate Uniqueness

Author:Doris Lessing

“We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.”

Victim Phds

Author:Sunitha Krishnan

“We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.”

Remember Individual Community Winner Wrestling

Author:Dan Gable

“We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.”

Way Mean Together Nations Levels Imagine Fairs Diverse

Author:Mark Takano

“We, as Americans, have an interest in ensuring that the only people who get to vote for our elected leaders are our citizens, and not some foreign people who think that they have an interest in skewing our election in one direction or another.”

People Thinking Interest Leader Citizens Vote Election One Direction Elected Leaders

Author:Samantha Power

“We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.”

World Littles Ideas Facts Levels Trouble Awareness Lows Disturbing Familiarity Low Level

Author:Tom Freston

“We, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in Kalighat is not that we are smarter, not that we're harder working, not that we're more virtuous - it's that we're luckier.”

People Harder Distinction Virtuous Smarter Lottery

Author:Nicholas D. Kristof

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