W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
“What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.”
Source: Chicken pox for the soul
“what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.”
Source: Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life
“What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!”
“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.”
Source: The Theory of Clouds
“What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.”
“What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you...We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.”
“What we called "polite society", I felt, was actually a thin skin stretched over the rotting corpse of what used to be a moral framework. Once there had been goodness and kindness and respect for other human beings beneath that facade. Now there was only a writhing mass of maggots and filth.”
Source: The Kingdom of Heaven
“What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish”
“What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.”
“What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return”
Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“What we can be sure of is that the gun debate is a boon for politicians on both sides of the aisle. Whether they are pro- or anti-gun, politicians get to use this emotionally charged issue in their bids for office. And they need never fear that the issue will go away because data suggest that the solution they debate – restricting access to guns – has no effect one way or the other.
The short, but real lesson here is that even when we commit to using the powerful tool of coercion, even when we are convinced its use is utterly warranted, we might not get anything resembling the results we intended. Coercion is not a magic wand, it is simply a tool. If there is actually no effect one way or the other, as the data indicate here, the only effect coercion achieves is to limit people’s freedom. Where gun violence is concerned, coercion is simply not the correct tool for the job, and emotive posturing will never change that.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“What we can borrow from Ronald Reagan ... is that great sense of optimism. He led by building on the strengths of America, not running America down.”
“What we can change is our perceptions, which have the effect of changing everything.”
Source: Buddha in the Classroom: Zen Wisdom to Inspire Teachers
“What we can do as landscape architects is look at how we can use materials to the best
advantage, and our resources like water. Water is so precious that we can't waste it, we have to
use it in small amounts, and we have to use it effectively.”
“What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.”
Source: Social Aspects of Christianity
“What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons. The key is we’ve got to have a clear objective...”
“What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.”
“What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth.”
“What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.”
“What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?”
“What we can do, we will try to do.”
“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”
Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“What we can say for sure is that, at the very least, God calls every Christian to live with a missionary heart.”
“What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.”
Source: The History of White People
“What we can see determines what we choose. Good is the distant source of light, it is the unimaginable object of our desire. Our fallen nature knows only its name and its perfection. That is the idea which is vulgarized by existentialists and linguistic philosophers when they make good into a mere matter of personal choice. It cannot be defined, not because it is a function of our freedom, but because we do not know it.”
Source: The Unicorn
“What we can't control should not dictate the emotions we can control.”
Source: The Sober Addict
“What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.”
“What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.”
“What we can't speak, we say in silence.”
“What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.”
“What we cannot do, under any circumstances, is precisely what the fossil fuel industry is determined to do and what your government is so intent on helping them do: dig new coal mines, open new fracking fields, and sink new offshore drilling rigs. All that needs to stay in the ground.”
“What we cannot do, under any circumstances, is precisely what the fossil fuel industry is determined to do and what your government is so intent on helping them do: dig new coal mines, open new fracking fields, and sink new offshore drilling rigs. All that needs to stay in the ground.
What we must do instead is clear: carefully wind down existing fossil fuel projects, at the same time as we rapidly ramp up renewables until we get global emissions down to zero globally by mid-century. The good news is that we can do it with existing technologies. The good news is that we can create millions of well-paying jobs around the world in the shift to a postcarbon economy - in renewables, in public transit, in efficiency, in retrofits, in cleaning up polluted land and water.”
Source: On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
“What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.”
“What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.”
Source: Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
“What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.”
Source: Axis
“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”
“What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.”
Source: Essays on language, mind, and matter, 1919-26
“What we care about is, when faced with a problem and you're a member of a team, do you, at the appropriate time, step in and lead. And just as critically, do you step back and stop leading, do you let someone else?”
“What we care for, we will grow to resemble. And what we resemble will hold us, when we are us no longer...”
Source: The Overstory
“What we carry defines who we are and the effort we make is our legacy.”
Source: Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
“What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself”
“What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love.”
“What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance.”
“What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places--and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.”
Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
“What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.”
Source: How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives
“What we choose, changes us. What we love, transforms us.”
“What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].”
“What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.”