W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.”
“We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.”
“We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.”
“We can be immoral dead people, or we can be moral dead people. Either way, we're dead.”
“We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.”
“We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.”
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
“We can be lonely together”
Source: Fall of Night: The Morganville Vampires
“We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.”
“We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.”
“We can be motivated out the wazoo by gaining an understanding of all these power packed psychological truths yet somehow lack the basic engine needed to turn all that positive advice into the outcomes we desire. The science of quality management needs a seat at that table. Without it, a perplexing gap can be created when we set out to apply all that psychologically proven information to produce the specific type of life or career we want. Understanding how quality is defined, built, and managed was the missing link for me.”
Source: 5-Star Career
“We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.”
“We can be nomads in our own narrative, can feel like a stranger in our own story, just stopping by and traveling through, forever looking for something we feel we will not and cannot ever find. This sense of placelessness has everything to do with personhood, has everything to do with the ways our lives will project forward—who we will become and why. We
are, all of us, trying to go back to the backyards
where we learned to throw baseballs, the kitchens where we learned how to cook.
We are trying to get back to the fields our families farmed, the ancient recipes and remedies, hoping to know what we need to make the soups and sauces. We search for bloodlines lost in map lines, the immigrant story of coming to a new land only to find ourselves missing the old one. Generations stretch out, longer and farther from our place of origin, straining and stretching to hold on to who we are. But the currents of change are strong, washing it all away in the waters of time.”
Source: Matter of Little Losses: Finding Grace to Grieve the Big (and Small) Things
“We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.”
“We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?”
“We can be poor in spirit, and I don’t even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing. It can be here today and gone tomorrow.”
“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”
Source: Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
“We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.”
“We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.”
“We can be richer than industry as long as we know that there's things that we don't really need”
“We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital “T” or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small “t,” seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.”
“We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!”
“We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“We can be satisfied. We are loved, wanted, seen, delighted in, provided for, cherished, chosen, known, and planned on. We are set apart, believed in, invited, valued, of immeasurable worth, and blessed.”
Source: Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You
“We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.”
Source: Finding Peace
“We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.”
“We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.”
Source: Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.”
“We can be so much braver and bolder with a good friend by our side!”
“We can be strong in the face of kings and priests... but to live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain.”
Source: Elantris
“We can be suffering from terrible grief, we can be very unhappy, and yet none of that can withstand the joy of stretching out our legs comfortably after a long and tiring walk.”
Source: Wellen
“We can be supported and uplifted by people whom we’ve never met in person.”
Source: Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice
“We can be sure that the fifth element (idea) was immaterial for Plato and Aristotle, who used the term aether. The fifth element (Latin: quinta esentia) differs from the other four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air). When we look at aether, from the perspective of our philosophy, as the main principle before the formation of the world, as a potential (in posse), during its actualization (in esse), and as the underlying Being or reality of all the existence, then this term can be equated with God or, conditionally, with the Universal Mind. A posse ad esse is the transformation from the potential of the Universal Mind to its actualization as the Universe.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“We can be thankful for what we’ve achieved, but I think it’s far, far more powerful to be thankful that we have the opportunity to achieve.”
“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.”
“We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.”
“We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.”
“We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.”
“We can be the very first generation which fails to see the logic or pride in defining ourselves by anything else but what is found within ourselves: our values”
“We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.”
Source: How to Listen to God
“We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.”
“We can be walking around in this world, with bits and pieces of our souls scattered in different time loops and space cracks. You feel like you are always looking for yourself, because you actually are always looking for yourself! You're always looking for those bits and pieces of you. You've got to sit down and remember where you left them at. You've got to quiet the noise and go back to those loops in time and cracks in space that you forgot about and you need to understand yourself in those moments, and embrace yourself. And maybe even embrace those who were around you, with you. That's how you get those pieces back, that's how you sew them back into you.”
“We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.”
“We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.”
“We can be, and should be, the masters of events, and not their playthings.”
Source: My method, including American impressions
“We can bear ideas and events only when laundered by commentary, like the dirty money concealed by banking secrecy.
'In the heart and the belly it continues to sing its poisonous song - Better to kill a child than to harbour unsatisfied desires within oneself' (Kenzaburo Oe).
Ressentiment is an empty, useless passion only if it assumes a sentimental form.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on in quiet peace without the new blessing which we thought so necessary. We have not been saved from the battle we shrank so from entering, but we have sought and have gained the victory.”
“We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!”
“We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.”
Source: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics
“We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.”