W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.”
“We are good if our peers think we’re great. But we are great if the real world thinks we’re good.”
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”
“We are governed by our moods; should be the other way around.”
“We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility”
Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].
“We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.”
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
Source: Propaganda
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.”
Source: Propaganda
“We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.”
Source: Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
“We are gradually losing the art of silence. Of walking down the street lost in our own thoughts. Of closing the door to our rooms and being quiet. Of sitting on a park bench and just thinking. We may fear silence because we fear what we might hear from the deepest parts of ourselves. We may be afraid to hear that "still small" voice. What might it say? Might it ask us to change?”
“We are granted two true treasures: time, and the choices we make within it. Guard both with wisdom.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“We are grateful for a happy marriage and a glorious future. Four years of a happy marriage! Happy Anniversary my dearest husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita! I love you with all my heart, soul and body.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates.”
“We are grateful to the souls that lifted us when we were down.”
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
“We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.”
“We are great fools. 'He has spent his life in idleness,' we say, and 'I have done nothing today.' What! have you not lived? That is not only the fundamental, but the most noble of your occupations. 'If I had been put in charge of some great affair, I might have shown what I could do.' Have you been able to reflect on your life and control it? Then you have performed the greatest work of all. To reveal herself and do her work, nature has no need of fortune. She manifests herself equally at all levels, and behind curtains as well as in the open. Our duty is to compose our character, not to compose books, to win not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live properly. All other things -- to reign, to lay up treasure, to build -- are at best but little aids and additions.”
“We are great friends, Fredrick, and I do not want to lose you. Marriage is something I am not ready for, even if it were with my best friend. Can we not continue to love each other the way we always have?"
His eyes scanned her face and his hands reunited with hers. "My dear lady, I love you more than that," Fredrick said tenderly.”
Source: Ruby
“We are great if we have courage and friendship, but not if we only read books.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter Illustrated Edtn) & Unofficial Harry Potter - The Ultimate Amazing Complete Quiz Book 2 Books Collection Set
“We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably never will. Our reputations depend on the opinions of the ill informed. We all have better moments than anybody ever knows, and so do all the others. We are, each one of us, books that are read by critics who only glanced at the chapter headings and the jacket flap. Each one of us is a secret, and on that basis we ought to treat each other with the deepest respect.”
“We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!”
“We are great to the extent we help make others great.”
Source: CATCH THEM YOUNG
“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”
Source: Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4
“We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions”
“We are greater than the sum of our parts.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“We are greatly conscious of the fact that among the Lamanites - as well as among all peoples of other countries - we have a responsibility to see that the gospel touches their hearts and minds and that they understand it.”
“We are greatly enslaved by how we do not want and how we want to feel.”
“We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“We are gripped by God’s will of love, and must help carry out that will in this world, in small things as in great things, in saving as in pardoning. To be glad instruments of God’s love in this imperfect world is the service to which we are called.”
Source: The African Sermons
“We are grossly wasting our energy resources and other precious raw materials as though their supply were infinite. We must even face the prospect of changing our basic ways of living. This change will either be made on our own initiative in a planned and rational way, or forced on us with chaos and suffering by the inexorable laws of nature.”
“We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?”
“We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison
“We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.”
“We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.”
“We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs.
Наша спина, вечно подпираемая железным каркасом условностей, давно закостенела.
(O. Henry, "The Green Door")”
Source: The Green Door
“We are guests in our patients' lives.”
“We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.”
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, But our worst crime is abandoning the children, Neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, His blood is being made, And his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'”
“We are half present, therefore half appreciative, and our relationships suffer because of it.”
“We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.”
Source: My Summer in a Garden
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.”
Source: Weight of Glory
“We are haltingly, tentatively breaking the shackles of the earth ... but our energies are directed far more toward war.
Hypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death.
And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much.
But what we do not consider we are unlikely to put right.”
Source: Cosmos
“We are hammered 24/7 with the "far left" and "far right" points of view, pounding us, beating us upside the head with purely political theatrics in order to make us believe it's real. It's not real. It's a con!”
“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”
“We are happily married. She is happily, and I am married.”
“We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much homage reflected on ourselves.”
“We are happy by nature, and are made unhappy by thoughts.”
“We are happy by nature, and our happiness is interrupted by thoughts.”
“We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.”
“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
Source: Chess Story