W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.”
“While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps, to refocus on the Word and the will of God”
“While we are only at the beginning of incorporating AI into scientific processes, AI has already found adoption in a wide range of scientific domains where it is accelerating the discovery of new explanatory knowledge. The next phase in the evolution of the scientific process will likely see (semi)autonomous AI scientists that radically transform the pace at which science is done.”
Source: Artificial Intelligence: 10 Things You Should Know
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.”
“While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.”
Source: Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).
“While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.”
“While we are standing under the sky, screaming in thunder and crying in floodwater, we realize we have become victims of environmental disarray, preventing us from relishing the bright star backdrop and hearing the seasons' enchanting rhythm or following the quiet birds' migration and experiencing the stillness of an ancient tree. (“Rain Man - With a sky out of control“)”
“While we are threading our way through the vagaries of life, our shortage of reciprocity and solidarity may corner us into breaches of culpability. We can eschew this and kindle a dream of universalism that does not impose itself but emerges from the world's numerous cultural and topical particularities and enable us to compare, discern, and identify, allowing us to marvel at the diversity. In this way, we can embrace universal recognition, human understanding, peace of mind, and compassion with others and with ourselves. ("I only needed a light ")”
“While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.”
Source: Glass Sword
“While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.”
“While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.”
Source: Seven Gothic Tales
“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
Source: The Papers of George Washington: May-June 1778
“While we as people of God are certainly called to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, that whole "we're blessed to be a blessing" thing can still be kind of dangerous. It can be dangerous when we self-importantly place ourselves above the world, waiting to descend on those below so we can be the "blessing" they've been waiting for, like it or not.”
Source: Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People
“While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.”
“While we associate love with romance and passion, making love in everyday life revolves more around an attempt to create and sustain meaning and happiness. The search for perfect love is probably as fruitless as the search for perfect happiness. Kaufmann argues that passion will always erupt in people’s lives, but that if a couple can develop a relationship based on agapic love, then it is possible for them to build a house ‘of little pleasures brick by brick’.”
Source: Love
“While we ate, mostly in silence, I marveled at how the world worked today. Here a woman could worry about her husband cheating on her while just two hundred miles inland there was a mass exodus of disaster refugees headed north to a Canada that might take them in. A “sanctuary” where aquifers and other water sources were drying up. In the Midwest, privatized security forces were brawling with protestors in the streets of small towns. Disease outbreaks had lead to mass slaughter of affected livestock. While stocks remained bullish about the future even as the window for reversing climate change had shrunk to an unreachable dot.”
Source: Hummingbird Salamander
“While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the reasons for their failure, putting it off on something or someone else. Not so women, who absorb blame as if they were born to be societys doormats. (Some women like to speak of their willingness to take blame as if it were a form of altruism. It isn't. Women take the blame because they find it scary to confront those who are actually culpable of wrongdoing.)”
Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
“While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.”
“While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.”
“While we breathe, we will hope.”
“While we can all accept that bullying and abuse betray a lack or loss of respect for other human beings, there is a deeper issue: the devaluing of human life; and that in turn indicates a lack or loss of respect for the Giver of human life and dignity, God Himself. The message a bully sends is a mockery of God's handiwork, a lie that slanders God's nature and negates His love for us.”
Source: The Wounded Spirit
“While we can generalize when describing a given medium as hot or cool, all media can be said to possess both hot and cool aspects to varying degrees, and part of what I try to do with comics is figure out when and how the temperature needs raising or lowering.”
“While we can lament the years children may have needlessly suffered through the expectations and limitations of dominant society, today will always be the best day to change the context.”
“While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.”
“While we can never do enough to show gratitude to our nation's defenders, we can always do a little more.”
“While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.”
“While we can offer our guidance and a shoulder to cry on, our responsibility does not lie in fixing others and their problems. We need to draw the line when it comes to giving help and remember that other people must ultimately take responsibility for their happiness, not us.”
Source: Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
“While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.”
“While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.”
“While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.”
“While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.”
“While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.”
Source: Everyday Greatness: Inspiration for a Meaningful Life
“While we cannot choose how we will die, we can always choose how we will live.”
“While we cannot close our eyes to what is happening around us, it is important for each of us as individuals to refuse to hate another human being and commit to compassion, love, peace and nonviolence in the world. In becoming aware and resistant to evil, we should be wary of becoming part of the evil ourselves.”
“While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.”
“While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.”
“While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either.”
Source: The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
“While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.”
“While we converse with her, we mark
No want of day, nor think it dark.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.
“While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.”
“While we currently pick a hotel founding our decision on photos, videos, and reviews only, the metaverse could provide a more immersive experience, and allow us to "visit" a destination, book a hotel room or a restaurant table, bookmark a museum while sitting on our couch, and -then- live the experience IRL. It's travel research on steroids. No static image, 2D video, or website will ever be able to deliver an equivalent experience.”
“While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.”
Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939
“While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.”
“While we do have 50 years of terrific Avengers stories, many of which our writing staff has written, along the way, this has to live in its own world.”
“While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.”
“While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.”
“While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace.”
Source: Graham 2in1 (Angels/Peace With God)
“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”