W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are not a ghost in a machine. Rather, it is as if a vortex of machine parts had come together to form an emergent ghost.”
Source: Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive
“We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.”
“We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.”
“We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens. I am sick and tired of the American citizen being demeaned and treated as a second-class citizen while anybody who crosses the border is treated as the most virtuous human being on the face of the earth.”
“We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'”
“We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today.”
“We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.”
“We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother.”
Source: Redburn
“We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.”
“We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.”
Source: Ebk Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memo
“We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology”
“We are not a species, we are a family.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out quiet voices, and many people have stopped listening to the cries of their neighbors. Lots of folks have put their hands over their ears to drown out the suffering. Institutions have distanced themselves from the disturbing cries..
It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream, and struggle. One of the verses I have grown to love is the one where Jesus is preparing to leave the disciples and says, "I no longer call you servants.... Instead, I have called you friends" (John 15:15). Servanthood is a fine place to begin, but gradually we move toward mutual love, genuine relationships. Someday, perhaps we can even say those words that Ruth said to Naomi after years of partnership: "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried" (Ruth 1:16-17).”
“We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.”
“We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.”
“We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.”
Source: Mikhail Gorbachev Addresses the United Nations
“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”
“We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.”
“We are not accusing you of being illegal, we are accusing you of being immoral.”
“We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.”
“We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.”
“We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.”
“We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fallen apart in my life, I have gone back to those things that do not change. Nothing in the universe can ever change those facts. He loves me. I am not at the mercy of chance.”
Source: Suffering is Never for Nothing
“We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities.”
“We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.”
“We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.”
“We are not afraid of rivalry, for we are unique”
“We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.”
“We are not afraid to be entertainers.”
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]”
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962
“We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.”
“We are not against the ending of things; we are only against the ending of good things!”
“We are not against the evil when our enemies are.”
Source: The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
“We are not all able to do all things.”
“We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.”
“We are not all equal, nor can we be so.”
Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella
“We are not all great because we are inspired, but we feel great because we are.”
“We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some of us are on superyachts. Some of us have just the one oar.”
Source: Imagine a Country: Ideas for a Better Future
“We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.”
“We are not all the same, we should not all be treated the same. Some things that you would love, others would hate; roller coasters, gluten, etc.”
Source: sciVive
“We are not all the same; we don't think alike; and we have the right to openly express those differences in ways that, hopefully, will contribute to our community's welfare.”
“We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.”
Source: Camille
“We are not alone and we all have ample creativity within us if we just trust it.”
“We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.”
Source: Selected poems
“We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.”
“We are not alone. Infinity in the sky, eternity on our shoulders, faith on the path and trust on our back. There is no turning back. Walk forward and stay true to your path.”
Source: Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul
“We are not alone. Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says. It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see. What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.”
Source: Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
“We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other.”