W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are positive about our win and we know that our match was perhaps not as physical as the other matches on the weekend, so I think we have an advantage in that we have an extra day to recover.”
“We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.”
“We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
[Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]”
“We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.”
“We are powerful because we affect each other's stories, all of us. We are here to impact each other, to knock into each other, to throw each other off balance, sometimes even off track. I've always hated the phrase 'There's a reason for everything.' But here, now, I think even if there's not a reason for everything, there may be a reason for everyone.”
Source: Expiration Dates
“We are powerful because we have survived”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“We are powerful beyond imagination.”
“We are powerful beyond measure,
and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate.
United.”
“We are powerful enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it—the story of an organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
Source: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“We are powerful enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth's atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it- the story of the organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
Source: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“We are powerful magical beings.”
“We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.”
Source: Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity
“We are powerless and we take pleasure in being so.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.”
“We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.”
Source: A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book
“We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.”
“We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.”
Source: The Bishop of Rwanda: Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones
“We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.”
“We are pregnant with freedom.”
“We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.”
“We are prepared for some things, and we receive just as fast as we prepare ourselves.”
“We are preparing ourselves to write the story of our life, but we live only the draft of it.”
Source: Lupii trecutului
“We are presented an endless set of preoccupations and responsibilities. How do you organize your time?”
“We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society.”
“We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.”
Source: Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal
“We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that our wistful, intelligent friend who reminds us of our better self has decided a good way to spend the day is to open a box of Brillo pads, unravel a few, distribute some throughout the house, and eat or wear all the rest. And we shake our heads in an inability to comprehend what went wrong here.”
Source: What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned
“We are pretty tough in saying for example if you've got unsecured debts and less than £25,000 that should not be an excuse for repossessing someone's home.That should not be allowed.You have got to help manage people through this process. I don't want to pretend that it is going to be easy getting out of Gordon Brown's hole.”
“We are priests ordained by God to instruct and guide people to fulfill God’s will”
“We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.”
Source: The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens
“We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.”
“We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.”
“We are prisoners of the unnecessary things we amass, and the only way to discover our beautiful true selves is by chipping everything unnecessary out of our lives.”
“We are prisoners of the world's demented sink.
The soft enchantments of our years of innocence
Are harvested by accredited experience
Our fondest memories soon turn to poison
And only oblivion remains in season.”
Source: Selected poems
“We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.”
“We are probably hitting more this week than we ever have, just to see, ... We have 40 kids out there, and it is pretty competitive. So we have some kids we can put in, but they are going to have a lack of experience.”
“We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.”
“We are probably the most frustrating band to soundcheck because we always go off on jams and our sound-man is sitting there going: "oh god, I don't want to interrupt this, but... we've got to get things moving along..." We're just easily distracted because we want to be writing all the time!”
“We are proceeding on the basis of common values. We have more to gain from partnership, from promoting our partnership in dealing with the big global challenges. I, therefore, believe that in the near future, not much is going to change in the relations between E.U., Greece and the United States of America. These are relations that were forged under very difficult conditions and rely on the common values of our people.”
“We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation”
“We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.
(p. 62)”
“We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.”
Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
“We are product of time spent”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.”
“We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.”
Source: Kingdom Principles: Preparing for Kingdom Experience and Expansion
“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
“We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“We are products of their understanding or lack of understanding.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“We are products of their weaknesses or strengths.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?