W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth in our economy are getting the kind of financing that they need.”
“What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.”
“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”
Source: Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader
“What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”
“What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.”
Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)
“What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.”
“What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn't mean ANYTHING. "It's the DOING with money that develops us - it's not in the having. And when you have more, you're enabled to DO more."”
“What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.”
“What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.”
“What we have to realize is that when the inner voice gives us guidance, it's always going to be for our highest good - and it's always going to bring us more joy than we think.”
“What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.”
“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
Source: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”
“What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that if affects all of our military policies.”
“What we have to understand is that Jesus is not offering to make our problems disappear; he's offering to give us rest for our souls while he does the heavy lifting.”
Source: How to Pray in Times of Stress
“What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that Divine itself has to be proved. That God Almighty has to be proved. That Christ as a son of God has to be proved, that His birth as immaculate conception has to be proved. Not by argument, not by reasoning, nor by blind faith but by actualization on your central nervous system.”
“What we have waited for too long, or possessed only in secret, or had for too short a while: how hard it is to walk through our days with a loss not apparent. To have survived endings that had no ceremony and called forth no condolences. That were bereft even of a grave or death certificate. Sadness without sign or symbol.”
Source: The Cure for Sleep
“What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.”
Source: At the Reunion Buffet
“What we have within the Sunni tradition is this clash between the literalists and all the other trends and the Salafi movement, that are very much acting on the ground and using the popular sentiment to act against the West.”
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. We will not change this simply by increasing state funding of the humanities as opposed to slashing it to nothing. We will change it by insisting that a critical reflection on human values and principles should be central to everything that goes on in universities, not just to the study of Rembrandt or Rimbaud.”
“What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.”
“What we haven't imagined will one day
spit us out
magnificent and simple.”
Source: In Mad Love and War
“What we hear is the quality of our listening.”
“What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.”
“What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.”
“What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting.”
Source: This Mournable Body
“What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.”
Source: The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything
“What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.”
“What we hold grows weight.
Becomes enough or burden.”
“What we hold in consciousness, we will hold in flash. And what we lose in consciousness will be lost also in material form.”
Source: 4 Business Lessons From Jesus: A businessmans interpretation of Jesus' teachings, applied in a business context.
“What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.”
“What we hold inside, whether beauty or ugliness, is what we carry everywhere. We become what we have ingrained in the core of our being.”
Source: Poetry book Alone in a Boat
“What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.”
Source: The Sacred Band
“What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action.”
Source: The Island of the Day Before
“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Source: The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons
“What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper’s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper’s vision we see more.”
“What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.”
“What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.”
Source: The Son
“What we imagine in our minds becomes our world.”
Source: The Hidden Messages in Water
“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.”
“What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another planet. Spirit explored just as we would have, seeing a distant hill, climbing it, and showing us the vista from the summit. And she did it in a way that allowed everyone on Earth to be part of the adventure.”
“What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.”
“What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“What we judge/envy/suspect in someone else can guide us to the darkness we have within ourselves. Our envy, impatience, suspicion with someone else tells us something about ourselves. Negative projections and suspicions reflect our own insecurities and get in our way.”
Source: Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
“What we keep sacred, keeps us safe.”
Source: Son of the Dawn
“What we know about a possible life after death is just mere speculation”
“What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep calories under control. That, however, does not make front-page news.”
“What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.”
“What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates Americans for their "excessive" lifestyle.”
“What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.”