W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.”
“We are a European nation - must stay one.”
“We are a false magic”
Source: Wind Bells
“We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.”
“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.”
Source: The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People
“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.”
“We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.”
Source: How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
“We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.”
“We are a free people; and now you have planted in our country the title deeds of our future slavery. You are neither god nor demon; who are you, then, to make slaves? Orou! You understand the language of these men, tell us all, as you have told me, what they have written on this sheet of metal: This country is ours. This country yours? And why? Because you have walked thereon? If a Tahitian landed one day on your shores, and scratched on one of your rocks or on the bark of your trees: This country belongs to the people of Tahiti - what would you think?”
“We are a generation of everything temporary, masqueraded as engaged in patterns beyond the point, but relies too much on technology, and yet despite all of that, we no longer feel compulsive to connect with each other, and somehow that’s the reason some friendship doesn’t last, however, we have the sincerity to connect on a regular basis with a virtual audience and socialise on the internet.”
“We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.”
“We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.”
“We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States,’ Obama said in 2005. ‘But those who enter the country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law, and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.’ He added: “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants into this country.’ A few years later, in a 2013 State of the Union address, Obama promised to put illegal immigrants ‘to the back of the line.’
He even once told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: ‘Our direct message to families is ‘do not send your children to the border.’ If they do make it, they’ll be sent back. But they may not make it [at all].’ Yes, that’s progressive hero, Mr. Hope and Change himself, Barack Obama, sounding an awful lot like evil, racist Republican Donald Trump, wouldn’t you say?”
Source: Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
“We are a gentle angry people
We are a land of many colors
We are gay and straight together
We are a peaceful loving people
And we are singing, singing for our lives.”
“We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.”
“we are a god one people but we do praying at different and different gods for self.”
“We are a great capitalist society, that works most of the time. We do need to take better care of our people and fix the access, cost, and quality of healthcare. But we need to act intelligently. We needed the intervention of government to keep the economy from falling into an abyss, but we must now encourage the creation of business - not burden it.”
“We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.”
“We are a great nation because we are a good people.”
“We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France.”
“We are a grief-illiterate nation, and Kübler-Ross dedicated her life to helping people find peace in challenging losses. She gave us permission to grieve.”
Source: On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
“We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.”
“We are a kaleidoscope of complicated intricacies. A million different facets of light and darkness.”
“We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.”
Source: The life of Benjamin Franklin
“We are a landscape of all we have seen.”
“We are a life-form that is manifesting life. This, in itself, is only an object. Nevertheless, our true self is so much more. Furthermore, what manifests in our existence depends on our relationship with the mind and how we now see ourselves.”
Source: Love Will Show You the Way: Choosing the Path of Least Resistance
“We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom
“We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.”
Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary
“We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.”
“We are a lot more alike than we are different and it's important to remember that.”
“We are a manifestation that we perpetuate through space-time. Death is the ceasing of the observation of it whether by direct or indirect influence.”
“We are a material-mad race of people. Build, increase, expand, pile up, hoard! More and more and more. "If we can just make enough money to-to- !" Jesus said: "Sell what ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth."”
“We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.”
“We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.”
“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.”
Source: Alms for Oblivion
“We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon”
“We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!”
“We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.”
“We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.”
“We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.”
“We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.”
“We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.”
“We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.”
Source: Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:
“We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.”
“We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.”
“We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.”
Source: The Basic Eight
“We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.”
“We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.”
Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches
“We are a nation of faith, and we are stewards of God's world.”
“We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.”