W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.”
“We are the only people who may know the will of God for the city we live in. God expects us to become intercessors for our countries”
“We are the only person responsible for our own well-being.”
“We are the only poets,” Emily told Susan, “and everyone else is prose.”
“We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.”
“We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.”
“We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library”
Source: Cosmos
“We are the only species on this planet without full employment.”
“We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.”
“We are the only species that understands the damage we cause to the Earth and the only one with the power to change it. Yet, we choose inaction—a collective moral failure that elevates our unending desires above the survival of all life.”
“We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.”
“We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.”
“We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.”
“We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.”
Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
“We are the other of the other”
“We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy”
“We are the Overcomers, the Overmen, not the Last Men. The Last Men want a petty, trivial, comfortable world without any suffering. Fuck ‘em! The task is not to eliminate suffering, but to sublimate it. All people who accomplish anything great impose tremendous discipline, suffering, and hardship on themselves. They deny themselves an easy, hedonistic life. They train hard, study hard, try hard, make tremendous sacrifices. They’re certainly not in the Last Man game of removing suffering from their life. They don’t want to end suffering. They want to use suffering to develop.”
Source: The Wolf Tamers: How They Made the Strong Weak
“We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts. For blizzards our gizzards Dr tremble with joy. An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail. We fly forward and backward, Upside down and flat. Do we flinch? Do we wail? Do we skitter or scutter? No, we yarp one more pellet And fly straight for the gutter! Do we screech? Do we scream? Do we gurgle? Take pause? Not on your life! For we are the best Of the best of the chaws!”
“we are the pain our forefathers decided to carry forward.”
“We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.”
“We are the people and America is really nothing without the people. We have to take control and we have realize as young people that this is our future. We have to live here and this where we'll one day raise our own children.”
“We are the people are parents warned us against.”
“We are the people of life, because God, in His unconditional love, has given us the Gospel of Life, and we are called to act accordingly.”
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indeed, how many of us started reading with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force worthy books on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship for the people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that we claim. If anyone tries to take away our books—some oppressive government, some censor gone off the rails—we would defend them with everything that we have. We know our tribespeople when we visit their homes because every wall is lined with books. There are teetering piles of books beside the bed and on the floor; there are masses of swollen paperbacks in the bathroom. Our books are us. They are our outboard memory banks and they contain the moral, intellectual, and imaginative influences that make us the people we are today.”
“We are the people our parents warned us about.”
“We are the people that we have been waiting for and no one else is coming.”
“We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there. Hit the streets to protest Bush's proposed surge. If you can, go to the peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'”
“We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.”
“We are the perspectives of our own perception,
Make it exceptional!”
“We are the pieces - we are the pieces of peace. When we are separated, by culture, creed, nationality or whatever, there is but war - when we come together, lo and behold, there is peace.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“We are the pigs who put the pigs in power. If we wanna change that, we gotta build our character.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.”
“We are the playthings of the gods.”
“We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream, we are what gives life magick.”
“We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?”
“We are the prisoners of ideas.”
Source: A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
“We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.”
Source: Strategies for Success: The Keys to Success in College, Career and Life
“We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.”
Source: Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective
“We are the product of our past. We start each day where we left off the day before. Changing the way we dress, where we work and live, or even changing a name does not alter our basic constitution. Transformation of the self requires a radical alteration in the way that we perceive the world and derive meaning.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We are the product of our Personal Identity, Beliefs, Values, behaviors, Expectations, Contexts, and Choices”
“We are the product of our thinking, so it is important that we choose carefully where to focus our mental energy.”
“We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.”
“We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.”
“We are the progeny of the choices we make.”
“We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.”
“We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a world where proms and marriage define the social order, we are, by force of our personalities and inner strength, rebels.”
“We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.”
“We are the rags to riches story okay the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally okay, God's gonna take "Duck Dynasty" where he wants it to go okay and to the people that he wants it to go to.”
“We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the public service. Why should we accept from them a discourse which suggests contempt for us and for the democratic system?”
“We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.”