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 being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.”
“We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.”
“We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. We’ve just been to the last stop of this bus.”
“We are not Black Muslims we are Muslims. You see, you have Catholics. You have Chinese Catholics, you have Indian Catholics, you have black Catholics and white Catholics. But I'm sure you don't ask a man are you a white Catholic? Are you a Chinese are you a yellow Catholic, a red Catholic, or a white Catholic? He's just a Catholic. We have black Muslims, we have brown Muslims, we have red Muslims, we have yellow Muslims, we have even white complected Muslims, so I'd like to clear that point, this is a press word, Black Muslims.”
“We are not bodies, but mere memories.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
Source: The Promised Land
“We are not born as we are; we become what our circumstances make us.”
— Shubham Saxena”
“We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.”
“We are not born for ourselves alone.”
Source: The Orations
“We are not born good or bad. We become so by choice, even when choice is not always ours.”
“We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.”
Source: Mysticism and the New Physics
“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”
“We are not born silent. We are taught to forget the sound of our own truth.”
Source: This Was Almost Enough: “A Literary Speculative Transmission of Memory, Conscience, and the Light We Traded”
“We are not born stupid; we inherit stupidity by continuing to do that which is stupid. - On Stupidity”
Source: Walking the Soul
“We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“We are not born to consume; we are born to create.”
“WE ARE NOT BORN TO LIVE LONG, WE ARE BORN TO DIE ONE DAY, REMEMBER THIS EVERY DAY”
“We are not born to survive. Only to live.”
“We are not born to wait. We are born to do.”
“We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.”
“We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.”
“We are not born with hard hearts. We are born with soft and tender hearts that, more often than not, are mishandled and consequently broken. The pain is always harsher than expected when each fragment turns to stone. So we pile them high to form a wall of protection around ourselves, determined never to experience such terrible pain again. That is how hearts come to be hardened. Ironically, our refusal to dismantle the wall is how and why we continue to suffer.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“We are not born with mapped-out lives, we are the cartographers of our own destiny.”
Source: Good Bad Girl
“We are not born with stress, it is created through the way we think, the way we live and the choices we make day to day. When we understand how to use our breath, we can manage stress and improve our quality of life, feel less fear, feel more joy and find an internal sense of peace in a very short period of time.”
Source: STOP STRESS FAST: 12 QUICK, PROVEN STRESS RELIEF TECHNIQUES TO HELP YOU FEEL GOOD EVERYDAY
“We are not born
with tears. Your
first dozen cries
are dry.
It takes some time
for the world to arrive
and salt the eyes.”
Source: Book of Hours: Poems
“We are not born with the most advanced brain in the entire animal kingdom so that we could keep living like animals, selfishly obsessed with the needs of our own - we are born with it so that we could use it to lift others - we are born with it so that we could become the very epitome of conscience, character and assimilation.”
Source: No Foreigner Only Family
“We are not born women of color. We become women of color. In order to become women of color, we would need to become fluent in each others’ histories, to resist and unlearn an impulse to claim first oppression, most-devastating oppression, one-of-a-kind oppression, defying comparison oppression. We would have to unlearn an impulse that allows mythologies about each other to replace knowing about one another. We would need to cultivate a way of knowing in which we direct our social, cultural, psychic, and spiritually marked attention on each other. We cannot afford to cease yearning for each others’ company.”
Source: Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
“We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.”
“We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.”
“We are not bringing Christ to poor communities. He has been active in these communities since the creation of the world, sustaining them, Hebrews 1:3 says, by His powerful Word. Hence, a significant part of working in poor communities involves discovering and appreciating what God has been doing there for a LONG time.”
Source: When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
“We are not broken. We unintentionally create so many cuts in our thinking that we end up working against ourselves. The thoughts that appear in your mind do not require fixing; they only require understanding.”
“We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.”
“We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.”
“We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here.”
“We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.”
Source: If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer
“We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.”
“We are not built to be weapons, Kasara. But to build and renew, to lead with empathy and compassion, that is a woman’s job. Think of the other leaders, think of how their factions run on hate and greed. That is why I am here, that is why I took up the VO, because women are supposed to change the world. My father didn’t have only daughters as punishment from some distant god. No, he had daughters because some distant god knew what we could do.”
Source: Wishing for Corruption
“We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people.”
“We are not by nature cruel.”
“We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest conviction. But we are called on to trust--to trust ourselves to God, being sure that He will lead us right--to keep close to Him--and to trust the promises which He whispers through our conscience; this we can do, and we ought to do.”
“We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.”
“We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.”
“We are not called to bring redemption to the nations single handedly”
“We are not called to fight the battles of our fathers with a blind faith. We are called to examine their wars, and moreover, to discern whether their actions were sinful or just. Furthermore, we are called to decide whether to correct the errors of our fathers battles through either peace, war, or some combination of the two. We are not bonded to our fathers' fate, but rather called to build on their trespasses or triumphs for a better future.”
“We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.”
Source: Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1
“We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.”
Source: Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1
“We are not called upon to do all the good possible, but only that which we can do.”
“We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.”
Source: Medical Ministry
“We are NOT calling it magical death spit!!”
“We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual”