W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.”
“What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.”
Source: The Light of Other Days
“What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.”
“What we need is a new kind of environmentalism, defined not by saying no but by saying yes. I call this new era the “era of convergence”—defined by the coming together of two of the most powerful forces in the country today: the environmental movement and the free enterprise system. Only by embracing the tools of the marketplace will we be able to mobilize the capital we need to protect the huge landscapes that are at risk.”
Source: A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
“What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.”
“What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.”
“What we need is a profound rethinking of the nature of suffering itself, and what it is trying to highlight and ask us to change. We need to repoliticise emotional discontent in the minds of teachers, parents and policy-makers, rather than continue reducing it to dysfunctions that allegedly reside within the self. We need to acknowledge that suffering also reflects family/socio/political dynamics we would do well to better acknowledge and address.”
Source: Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis
“What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.”
“What we need is a royal army of returned missionaries reenlisted into service.”
“What we need is a strong defense, but right now there is zero chance of an invasion by another country and right now we have more firepower than all other countries put together.”
“What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.”
“What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.”
“What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.”
“What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.”
“What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.”
“What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.”
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“What we need is clarity in our relationships and desires. We must let go of hollow illusions if we want to discover our authenticity and step toward freedom of thinking.
(“Twilight of desire”)”
“What we need is endless courage.”
“What we need is equality without conformity.”
Source: Green Mars
“What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.”
“What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.”
“What we need is legislation, not negotiation, for the entire globe.”
“What we need is love without getting tired.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“What we need is love, to guide and protect us on.”
“What we need is more books to read.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense.”
“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.”
Source: On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose
“What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that”
“What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.”
“What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.”
Source: Negro Makers of History
“What we need is not a religion that is right where we are right, but one that is right where we are wrong.”
“What we need is not law-abiding love, but love-abiding law.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.”
Source: The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century
“What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.”
“What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.”
“What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.”
“What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.”
“What we need is progress with an escape hatch.”
Source: Assorted Prose
“What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.”
“What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.”
“What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.”
Source: Toward a better world
“What we need is the power to pray.”
“What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.”
“What we need is to use what we have.”
“What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.”
“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media.”
“What we need most is good health more than any thing else.”
“What we need most is to realize that human beings are fantastic resources for change.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity, a society where people can live in peace and happiness. People are tired of games played for power and profit. People are tired of hatred and conflict. They want to live with more wisdom and confidence, and in peace. It may seem like a long and distant path, but I am convinced that the 21st century must see a movement to sow the seeds of peace, happiness and trust in every person's heart. The seeds of a truly humane way of life. I am convinced this is the only path.”