W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While our discourse has been shrouded in sensational hysteria, the three primary stakeholders at the center of the controversy—the platforms, the politicians, and the people—have all been pointing their fingers at each other. Social media platforms blame our ills on a lack of regulation. Governments blame the platforms for turning a blind eye to the weaponization of their technology. And the people blame their governments and the platforms for inaction. But the truth is, we’ve all been asleep at the switch. In the end, each of us must take responsibility for the part we are playing in the Hype Machine’s current direction.”
“While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.”
“While our heart for social justice grows out from the gospel, social justice by itself will not communicate the gospel. We need gospel proclamation, for as much as people may see our good deeds, they cannot hear the good news unless we tell them. Social justice, though valuable as an expression of Christian love, should, especially as a churchwide endeavor, serve the goal of gospel proclamation.”
“While our human minds are limited to the physical, God knows what is above and beyond what the eyes can see. That is the unquestionable wisdom of God.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“While our instinct is to interact with one another, how we do it is learned.”
Source: Discover Cultural Intelligence: Your New Superpower
“While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.”
“While our liberty is steering us through the whims of our desires and the ups and downs of our expectations, we must make sure that the pieces of the puzzle of our destination fit into the mystery structures of the others. When we use our awareness and freedom of choice, we learn to avoid pitfalls or hopeless flops.”
“While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.”
“While our modern culture is replete with stories incorporating every imaginable setting, plot and character, the history of storytelling has been characterised by the retelling of a few basic stories, involving a selection of core character types.”
“While our nation faces many challenges that must be met regarding homeland security and our military readiness, it is imperative that we live within our means and wisely spend taxpayer dollars.”
“While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.”
Source: Complete Essays
“While our responses to the problems facing us immediately are also important, we cannot forget to carve out the future of Japan ten or one hundred years into the future. In doing so, we must not resort to superficial measures. Instead, it is imperative to engage in true reforms that ascertain the state of society we seek to achieve.”
“While our roads might be markedly different, the fact that we are both walking a road intimately unites us. And if we each dare to step onto each other’s road for even a moment, we can profoundly enhance the journey for both of us. And so, might I invite you over.”
“While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.”
“While our species converged with bonobos in our friendliness toward strangers, in humans, this friendliness extends only to some strangers. Love for our own groups enhances our fear and aggression toward strangers with a different identity.”
“While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible.”
“While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.”
“While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.”
“While outside the window, the raindrops pitter pattered on leaves that shivered and sparkled, inside we made love for the first time!”
“While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.”
Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing
“While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.”
Source: A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever
“While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun?”
Source: Just Another Girl
“While pain may aim to deactivate your Faith, activate your Faith through prayer.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“While painting I noticed a piece of madras cloth on the floor. As usual, my mind started working overtime and a pair of scissors and a small amount of glue later...I created THE COMEDIAN. Everybody loved the uniqueness of the painting. It was indeed a hit.”
“While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability.”
“While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.”
Source: The Black Banner
“While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.”
“While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.”
“While part of me misses the newness of travel, being a beginner on the big walls and traveling with my heroes, I now can't wait to have all those adventures with my son; to show him the world, see him discover his passions and be there to support him through them.”
“While passenger numbers have doubled in the past 20 years, the industry remains scandalously inefficient.”
“While passing through an obscure nook of Notre Dame cathedral, Victor Hugo noticed the Greek work for fate carved in the stone. He imagined a tormented soul driven to engrave this word. From this seed sprang his monumental novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Source: Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
“While passion is centered towards self-fulfillment; compassion is focused on helping others.”
“While patriotism is often lauded as an unquestionable value, the status of patriotism is a problem for many thoughtful people. It is particularly troublesome for people who care about the common good but are alienated by the all too frequent use of patriotism and patriotic symbols to stifle debate, tarnish the images of rival candidates, or arouse popular support for aggressive military policies.”
Source: Patriotism, Morality, and Peace
“While paying attention to positive and negative feedback is very important, it is not enough. What also matters is acknowledging and responding to this feedback. This is how you nurture your relationship with your audience.”
Source: The Little Big eBook on Social Media Audiences: Build Yours, Keep It, and Win
“While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.”
“While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together and sharing motifs (the way Tomas and Sabina exchanged the motif of the bowler hat), but if they meet when they are older, like Franz and Sabina, their musical compositions are more or less complete, and every motif, every object, every word means something different to each of them.”
“While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.”
“While people are given freedom to vote, they still lack the education to know whom they are voting, and why they are doing the voting in the first place.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“While people are making wars, you make a calm walk in the wilderness. Stay away from the stupidities!”
“While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.”
“While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.”
“While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!”
“While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
“While people like Hadhrat Uwais Qarni were distant, they remained close to Rasulullaah while people like Abu Jahal were close, yet they remained so far.”
Source: Faza’il e Durood
“While people like to talk about climate change and global warming, I prefer to talk about the fruition of these which is human disease.”
“While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with.”
“While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.”
“While people will submit to suffering which may hit anyone, they will not so easily submit to suffering which is the result of the decision of authority. It may be bad to be just a cog in an impersonal machine; but it is infinitely worse if we can no longer leave it, if we are tied to our place and to the superiors who have been chosen for us. Dissatisfaction of everybody with his lot will inevitably grow with the consciousness that it is the result of deliberate human decision.
Once government has embarked upon planning for the sake of justice, it cannot refuse responsibility for anybody’s fate or position. In a planned society we shall all know that we are better or worse off than others, not because of circumstances which nobody controls, and which it is impossible to foresee with certainty, but because some authority wills it. And all our efforts directed toward improving our position will have to aim, not at foreseeing and preparing as well as we can for the circumstances over which we have no control, but at influencing in our favor the authority which has all the power. The nightmare of English nineteenth-century political thinkers, the state in which “no avenue to wealth and honor would exist save through the government,” would be realized in a completeness which they never imagined — though familiar enough in some countries which have since passed to totalitarianism.
As soon as the state takes upon itself the task of planning the whole economic life, the problem of the due station of the different individuals and groups must indeed inevitably become the central political problem. As the coercive power of the state will alone decide who is to have what, the only power worth having will be a share in the exercise of this directing power. There will be no economic or social questions that would not be political questions in the sense that their solution will depend exclusively on who wields the coercive power, on whose are the views that will prevail on all occasions.”
Source: The Road to Serfdom
“While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.”
Source: The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition