W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“we are trying to fight a system while simultaneously navigating it, because it adapts so completely that we become unwilling participants, all in the name of survival. the guilt of that contradiction forms part of the snare. we can recognise being in the system without surrendering it.”
“We are trying to find out the meanings which lay in the minds of the originators of the Masonic Symbolisms as the reasons why they instituted these symbolic lessons. Let us remember this point very carefully and also the further fact that all these symbols date back to a period far anterior to the time of Christ.”
Source: The Lost Key: An Explanation and Application of the Masonic Symbols
“We are trying to find something to feel the void. It is only God who can fill the void.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.”
“We are trying to get marijuana reclassified medically. If we do that, we'll be using the issue as a red herring to give marijuana a good name.”
“We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.”
“We are trying to live
as if we were an experiment
conducted by the future”
Source: Circles on the Water
“We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.”
“We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.”
“We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.”
“We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.”
“We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.”
Source: The Quotable Feynman
“We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.”
“We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.”
“We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.”
Source: The Arrogance of Power
“We are trying to send our message to let the world know what is happening and what will happen to the Maldives if climate change isn't checked.”
“We are trying to solve the problem of haze in the spirit of good neighbourliness with Malaysia but are also hoping that other ASEAN member countries are taking notice and willing to lend a helping hand.”
“We Are Turkiye (The Sonnet)
Earthquake may shatter our houses,
But it can never shatter our hearts.
We shall rise from the rubble once again,
We shall build back against nature's curse.
But this time let us build back better,
By putting our faith in science not politics.
We could've averted such cataclysmic terror,
Had we heeded the warnings of scientists.
A scientist works to preserve life,
Politician plays publicity with death.
Given the choice between the two,
Listen to the scientist without wait.
Why do people have to die
for us to open our eyes!
If we still fail to heed reason,
nothing will stop the funeral cries.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.”
“We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.”
“We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“We are turning our grief into winnable actions.”
“We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.”
Source: The Story of My Life
“We are twins, we are destined for love, no love is greater than mine for this blonde hair woman. You are destined for this redhead woman. We are destined for good and evil. Evil is a blessing in disguise and Good is all evil. Destiny lies between the sheets, where does our lies?
Celeste Rayne”
Source: Happily Ever After
“We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.”
Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
“We are two bricks that belong side by side, strong, building the walls of our family. I will come back to you, if you need me like I need you. I love you.”
Source: Red Ink
“We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.”
“we are two like-minded creatures too well-matched, both equal halves of a whole not altogether wholesome”
Source: Shining from a Different Firmament
“We are two parts of a song. He is the music. I am the words.”
“We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.”
“We are two travelers, Roger and I. Roger's my dog-come here, you scamp! Jump for the gentleman-mind your eye! Over the table,-look out for the lamp! The rogue is growing a little old; Five years we've tramped through wind and weather, And slept out-doors when nights were cold, And ate and drank and starved together.”
“We are tyrannized by our options.”
Source: Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
“We are ugly but we have the music.”
“We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.”
“We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.”
“We are unable to discount the hypotheses that the world began three years ago.”
Source: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
“We are unable to think about the most important things on our own.”
Source: Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
“We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech”
“We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.”
“We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else.”
Source: Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame
“We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.”
“We are unconsciously distracted by seeing our reflection. You can alleviate a lot of the fatigue of teleconferencing all day if you turn off your self-view.”
Source: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier
“We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.”
“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.”
Source: The autobiographical notes of Charles Evans Hughes
“We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.”
“We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack Obama have shrouded this country in punitive regulations. We haven't had economic growth higher than one and a half percent for the last eight or nine years, and that was done on purpose. There have been robust times in the past, and there are a lot of people right now that are doing well and are growing. But generally it ought to be much better in the past. There needs to be an economic revival.”
“We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity”
“We are uneasily aware that a similar catastrophe[, that of an immense meteorite or comet hitting the earth and causing massive global extinction,] could hit us at any moment... [T]he odds that it will happen in some unfortunate individual's lifetime are near certainty... And the unfortunate individuals concerned will probably not be human, for statistical likelihood is that we shall be extinct before that anyway.”
Source: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution