W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”
Source: At Large
“We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.”
“We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing contrary to His will can occur; therefore when the sinner disobeys His commands, He must have intended this to happen.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.”
“We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.”
Source: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc
“We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.”
Source: A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
“We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.”
Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
“We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.”
Source: Selected Speeches and Reports on Finance and Taxation, from 1859 to 1878
“We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'”
“We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?”
“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”
“We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them. But you cannot kiss an idea... cannot touch it or hold it.
Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man.
A man that made me remember the 5th of November. A man that I will never forget.”
Source: V for Vendetta
“We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!”
“We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.”
Source: Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life
“We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?”
Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
“We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?"
[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]”
“We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“We are tomorrow's past.”
Source: Precious Bane
“We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.”
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
“we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us...”
“We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.”
Source: How to Obtain Fullness of Power
“We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.”
Source: How to Obtain Fullness of Power
“We are too busy trying to be someone else, that we reject others for being themselves.”
“We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.”
“We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.”
“We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.”
“We are too focused on our five senses, but when we die those senses are not valid anymore. Our soul is intangible and immortal, and can only be detected by our sixth sense.”
Source: Eros and Psyche: An Ancient Soul Mate/Twin Flame Story
“We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.”
Source: Dressing Up for the Carnival
“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.”
“We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.”
“We are too much in the machine world today. Even here in Tuva we've got every year more and more cars and other technologies, and of course it brings more pollution to our air, to nature. And I think the idea of the Kraftwerk song is people should not be very much mechanized or to be a machine in the world of machines. The idea is to try to find a golden middle between the world of nature and the world of machines.”
“We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.”
Source: All Religions are True
“We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.”
Source: If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat
“We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.”
“We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.”
“We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.”
“We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.”
“We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.”
“We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.”
“We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.”
“We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.”
“We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“We are too sloppy thinkers to deserve the luxury of leaving logic implicit.”
Source: TREFETHEN'S INDEX CARDS: FORTY YEARS OF NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE, WORDS AND MATHEMATICS
“We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.”
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone”
“We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.”