W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.”
“Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“Welcome, wild harbinger of spring!
To this small nook of earth;
Feeling and fancy fondly cling,
Round thoughts which owe their birth,
To thee, and to the humble spot,
Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.”
“Welcome. Come on in to me world.”
“Welcome...to Jurassic Park!”
Source: Jurassic Park: Raptor attack
“Welcoming a new year is not only about counting the last moments, it's about being ready for every moment of the next one year.”
“Welcoming guest speakers and industry experts into the classroom creates invaluable connections between theoretical concepts and real-world applications, inspiring students and providing them with valuable insights and mentorship.”
“Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human -- and by that I mean imperfect -- beings.”
“Welcoming, openness, is the nature of life.”
Source: I Am
“Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less philosophers.”
“Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.”
“Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.”
“Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.”
“Welfare doesn't mean free money, welfare means food, housing, healthcare and education - any government that fails to provide the essentials to its citizens forfeits its right to office.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Welfare doesn't mean free money, welfare means food, housing, healthcare and education - any government that fails to provide the essentials to its citizens forfeits its right to office. Focus on universal basic essentials, not universal basic income.”
Source: Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
“Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.”
“Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.”
“Welfare is monetary methadone.”
“Welfare is not a retirement plan.”
“Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.”
“Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.”
“Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to be rich, or at least self-sustaining, but this president never talks about how they might achieve that goal. Instead, he criticizes those who made the right choices and now enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than use successful people as examples for the poor to follow, the president seeks to punish the rich with higher taxes and more regulations on their businesses.”
“Welfare mothers make better lovers.”
“Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.”
Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
“Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but - on the contrary - bring about a state of affairs which - from the very point of view of the government and its supporters - is even more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they wanted to 'improve.'”
Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays
“Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.”
Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used”
“Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.”
“Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.”
“Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”
“Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, whose who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government...”
“Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated, and slaughtered, "humanely." Welfarists don't necessarily feel that it is wrong for humans to use animals for our own purposes.”
“Welhewan is charming us,' Sasha says in an unsure voice. 'It is trying to soothe us with its lullaby. Do not let yourself . . . Oh, a butterfly. Look how beautiful it is! No, don't look. The forest is making us happy, and we cannot let it.”
Source: White Hart
“Welk antwoord je ook geeft, in welke situatie dan ook, herhaal het zo vaak mogelijk. Al moet je het vijf of tien keer achter elkaar zeggen; de kracht van herhaling is groter dan je denkt. Je houdt daarmee als het ware de deur dicht. Vervolgens kun je ook steeds naar deze herhaling blijven terug verwijzen.”
Source: Bouw een muur tegen narcistische manipulaties
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“Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.”
“Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.”
“Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Well - when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures - all these little stars That shake out of my cloak - I must save those To use for asterisks.”
“Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me.”
Source: Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick
“Well . . . sure good to be together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look. It's our floor.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian
“Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.”
Source: It Happened One Autumn: Number 2 in series
“Well," a female voice said. "What have we here?"
"Here," Bethany said, responding to the woman's rhetorical question, "we have a teenager. And she's pissed.”
Source: Every Other Day
“Well a good writer writes, a good musician listens to a lot more than he actually composes, and if you're going to do lyrics - well, there's a Freudian slip. That's not even a slip, that's a Freudian move: I said going to do lyrics. If you really want it to ring true, you'll live it first. Go really get your heart broken!”
“Well a lot of females complain about getting into the business, like men producers always wanna get (in bed) with them before, but it wasn't like that for me, I was good from start so I had no problems when it came to recording.”
“Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.”
“Well, a man has to have his limits somewhere, and being shoved into a hole in the wall is mine.”
Source: The Zarder
“Well Abby, it’s not as simple as that. I hate to see you sad sweetheart, but it’s not that bad of a deal just having mommy is it? Are you not happy with me?” I hoped that this would throw her off her the questioning for a little while.
It’s not that I never thought about dating, actually I take that back, it’s exactly that and I didn’t know how to get my mindset any differently.
Abby looked at me, her baby blues delving deep into my soul “But, you deserve to be happy, too.” she whispered.”
“Well, about that... See, I found that... when I was doing something dangerous or stupid... I could remember you more clearly," I confessed, feeling completely mental. "I could remember how your voice sounded when you were angry. I could hear it, like you were standing right there next to me. Mostly I tried not to think about you, but this didn't hurt so much- it was like you were protecting me again. Like you didn't want me to be hurt.
"And, well, I wonder if the reason I could hear you so clearly was, underneath it all, I always knew you never stopped loving me."
Again, as I spoke, the words brought with them a sense of conviction. Of righteousness. Some deep place inside me recognized the truth.
His word came out half stangled. "You... were... risking your life... to hear-”
Source: New Moon
“Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.”