W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.”
“We believe that people should wait their time, and people should be able to be accepted here - over a million a year - in an orderly process, not a disorderly process, and that we should not be rewarding those who violate the law, and making even harder for those who try to comply with the law.”
“We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.”
“We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.”
Source: Divergent Trilogy
“We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.”
Source: Up to date: Poems, 1968-1982
“We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.”
“We believe that technology is at its very best; at its most empowering when it disappears”
“We believe that the all-new ES 350 epitomizes Lexus' new design direction. Every element of this vehicle invites participation -- both visual and tactile. Its design is something drivers will need to experience and not just observe.”
“We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.”
Source: Selected Works
“We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. ... We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation.”
“We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.”
“We believe that the capital in our portfolio should be a platform for utility and a facilitator of life.”
Source: Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing
“We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form”
Source: Grierson on Documentary
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.”
“We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.”
Source: El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts
“We believe that the European Union is facing a truly historic choice.”
“We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.”
“We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.”
“We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.”
“We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend the Seamless Robe of Jesus Christ ... Those who would not join Noah in his ark perished justly in the deluge; and these have justly suffered famine and hunger who would not receive as their shepherd the blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles.”
“We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.”
Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester
“We believe that the Honorable Elijah Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, God, but I'm only a helper and a minister of his.”
“We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.”
Source: Grierson on Documentary
“We believe that the mission of art is a mission of sentiment and of love, and that the novel of to-day ought to take the place of the parable and the apologue of more primitive times.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.”
“We believe that the reduction of the citizen to an object of propaganda, private and public, is one of the greatest dangers to democracy. A prevalent notion is that the great mass of the people cannot understand and cannot form an independent judgment upon any matter; they cannot be educated, in the sense of developing their intellectual powers, but they can be bamboozled. The reiteration of slogans, the distortion of the news, the great storm of propaganda that beats upon the citizen twenty-four hours a day all his life long mean either that democracy must fall a prey to the loudest and most persistent propagandists or that the people must save themselves by strengthening their minds so that they can appraise the issues for themselves.”
Source: GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
“We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.”
Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)
“We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.”
“We believe that the very beginning and end of salvation, and the sum of Christianity, consists of faith in Christ, who by His blood alone, and not by any works of ours, has put away sin, and destroyed the power of death.”
“We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.”
“We believe that there are only two sexes, men and women. It must be terrible for a man to be trapped in a woman’s body, but that does not mean that whoever defines himself as a woman, even if he is biologically a man, should go and shower with the women or play football with the women, That is a trend in society that my party does not agree with.”
“We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.”
“We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.”
“We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.”
“We believe that this is ‘our’ home and ‘our’ family. No, it is a ‘shop’ for us to settle our karmas. It is like a customer-businessman relationship.”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.”
“We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.”
Source: Lost Horizon
“We believe that true freedom means not sinning, in order to love God and one's neighbour with our whole heart and our whole strength. True freedom means constant dwelling in God.”
Source: A Year in the Holy Spirit with Saint Silouan the Athonite: - A Calendar of Daily Quotes
“We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.”
“We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.”
“We believe that we could do a great deal to neutralise regional conflicts. Also, for example, to continue joint activities in space, for peaceful civilian purposes.”
“We believe that we decide. We do make decisions. But the deeper decisions come from another part of our being that we're not particularly aware of yet.”
“We believe that we don’t have what it takes to compete, therefore we don’t compete.”
Source: Not Done Yet!: How Women Over 50 Regain Their Confidence and Claim Workplace Power
“We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.”
Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
“We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.”
Source: The end of nature
“We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.”
“We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.”
“We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.”
“We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits.”
Source: Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself