W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.”
“We best learn patience by practicing it.”
“We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.”
Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible: Romans to revelation
“We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.”
Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
“We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.”
“We best teach what we ourselves have learned.”
Source: World of Warcraft: Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects
“We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.”
“We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.”
Source: The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life
“We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings
“We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.”
“We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun.”
Source: The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of Celebrity
“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but it is not really an entity, and it does not have any real concern for any of its living creatures – it lives on with or without us; it is in our human psychology to impose a human-like identity upon any grand system that we encounter around us – it gives us a sense of closeness to that system and makes us feel an essential part of it. When I say, Mother Nature designed us, or programmed us, I am simply referring to the process of natural selection.”
Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
“We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.”
Source: The Accident Season
“We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.”
“We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.”
Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
“We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.”
“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”
“We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.”
Source: Saving Our Sons
“We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.”
“We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.”
“We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.”
“We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.”
“We blame heart for the misdeeds our mind plotted”
“We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.”
“We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine”
“We bleed but we heal.”
Source: Hale
“We bleed our sorrows dry on the chance that laughter will save what is left of our dignity”
“We bleed, we tremble; we forget, we smile - The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound ways: the unexpected phone call, the brief touch, the willingness to listen generously, the warm smile or wink of recognition. All it may take to restore someone's trust in life may be returning a lost earring or a dropped glove.”
“We blew up your mine. You burned my district to the ground. We've got every reason to kill each other. So
do it. Make the Capitol happy. I'm done killing their slaves for them."
"I'm not their slave," the man mutters.
"I am," I say.”
Source: Mockingjay
“We blindly demand that something be true despite the obvious errancy of whatever self-serving belief we have happened to concoct this time. And when it finally fails us in the manner that it was doomed to do so, we outright deny the failure by blaming it on those who predicted the failure. Yet, until we accept the fact that a ‘prediction’ based in the truth that we deny is not a ‘cause’ doomed by the errancy we perpetrated, we will continue to fail.”
“We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.”
“We blossom not in spite of but because of. I think of every experience as my teacher, most especially the difficult ones. I believe this is the role of suffering. Suffering cracks us open to allow for new light. Yet, we can choose to accept the light or hide under our bushel.”
Source: Doorway to the Sacred: Transform Your Life with Mantra Prayer
“We blossom under praise like flowers in sun and dew; we open, we reach, we grow.”
“We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.”
Source: Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel
“We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.”
“We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.”
“We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.”
“We boil at different degrees.”
“We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians.”
“We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays … then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed that the sheet of aluminum continued to emit positive electrons over a period of several minutes.”
“We bond in adult relationships the way we did in early life. If there was dysfunctional bonding then, we may be sitting ducks for an addictive bond later. A cellular memory from childhood triggers a cellular reflex in our adult selves.”
Source: 亲密关系的重建
“We bond in similarity yet we revitalize through contrasts.”
“We book people are always preaching about reading aloud to children, but unless you do, you can't realize how it enriches family life.”
“We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves”
“We born alone,we all die alone.”
“We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.”
“We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.”
“We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.”