W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.”
“We are forever lured by the sirens of the dogmatic mind, with its haughty complacency, which determines that one´s relationship to others is only meaningful when one tries to convince them of one´s single truth. In such a spiritual and intellectual climate, holding a dialogue consists of speaking, but never of listening - the other is the privileged scope of my proselytism. My truth thus becomes a blind and blinding passion - it imprisons me, even as it was supposed to liberate me; it has become a source of alienation.”
“We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.”
“We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.”
Source: The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.
“We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
“We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.”
“We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.”
“We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“We are formed by what we desire”
Source: Simon & Schuster 2012 Fiction Sampler
“We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.”
Source: Guided Meditations on the Stages of the Path
“We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.”
“We are fortunate to have such an esteemed filmmaker join the Marvel family. The talents Ryan [Coogler] showcased in his first two films easily made him our top choice to direct 'Black Panther.' Many fans have waited a long time to see Black Panther in his own film, and with Ryan we know we've found the perfect director to bring T'Challa's story to life.”
“We are forward planning and strategic on what the planet will look like with climate change as we decide to go into various areas of the world if we have to.”
“We are fossil fuel addicts. What happens when drug addicts detox? They can be rash, cranky, even psychotic and dangerous. It would be good for the environment if the entire economy abruptly quit fossil fuels, but that's not realistic. I wouldn't want to be around if it ever happened. Perhaps it's best to think of natural gas like methadone. It's a way for an energy addicted society to get off dirtier fuels and smooth out the detox bumps.”
Source: The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
“We are fossils in the making.”
Source: Crossing to Safety
“We are fragile beings,yet we often act as though we couldn't be hurt,and as though we couldn't hurt other people.”
Source: Mend My Broken Heart
“We are fragile tiny beings that are staring at the infinite universe and trying to understand what exactly is the purpose of our lives.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile.”
“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.
Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.”
Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.”
“We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.”
“We are free because we are willing to defend our freedoms to the death.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“We are free falling backward through time, reincarnating ourselves from our past, reflecting the chaotic energy of the present.”
“We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.”
“We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.”
“We are free to choose... But sometimes your choice first demands a renunciation and then a penance...and mine is You!!!”
Source: You're Still The One I Want For Life: Duet-2
“We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.”
“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
“We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so we chose the attendant consequence. If we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.”
“We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.”
“We are free to follow our own path. There are those which would take that freedom from us, and too many of you- too many of us- alas- gladly give it. But we have it within our power to choose- to choose whatever we deem true- and it is the exercise of that power which makes us human. There is no book or teacher to give us the answers, to show us a path. So- choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else!”
Source: Renaissance
“We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.”
Source: My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
“We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.”
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings
“We are free to yield to truth.”
“We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.”
“We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.”
Source: The Huston Smith Reader
“We are free, but no to be evil”
“We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.”
“We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the West is made up of individuals who are free to decide what meaning to give to their lives-in short the glory of the West is that life is an open book,[1] while under Islam, life is a closed book, everything has been decided for you: God and the Holy Law set limits on the possible agenda of your life.”
Source: Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
“We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.”
“We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.”
“We Are Freedom Fighters (Sonnet 2260)
Right to leave religion is just
as fundamental as right to religion.
Freedom of dress is just
as important as freedom of the press.
Freedom to breastfeed without shame
is just as sacred as freedom to pray.
Freedom to choose not to have child
is just as respectable as motherhood.
Freedom to love outside tradition
is just as divine as jesus on the mount.
Freedom to dream across color and collar
is just as elemental as drinking water.
Any halfwit can write Declaration of Independence,
while denying people's rights behind closed doors.
My Declaration of World Independence is this,
rights of another only enhance my own.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“We are freer than we think.”
“We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.”
Source: Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
“We are friendly to our country, and when we speak of the flag of our Union, we love it, and we love the rights the Constitution guarantees to every citizen. What did the Prophet Joseph say? When the Constitution shall be tottering we shall be the people to save it from the hand of the foe.”
“We are friends for life
Hold that deep inside
Let this be your drive
To survive”
“We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?”
“We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives”
Source: Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
“We are from the same planet, from the same universe, from the same sky, and this is a gift, accept it.”