W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.”
“We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.”
“We can go for days, weeks, and even months without saying or thinking the word 'education.' And yet, day in and day out, we are educating others and being educated ourselves. In the narrower sense of education - those classrooms and buildings and campuses where teachers and taught are brought together for purposes stated and unstated, for outcomes intended and unintended - we have all been profoundly affected by the pattern of days essentially not of our own making.”
“We can go mad whenever we like. We can leave our minds behind and play in the garden at night. The gate is always open. And the moon is always bright.”
“We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?”
“We can go somewhere more private if you’d like… Buck” I whisper softly in his ear, pulling back almost as slowly as the wicked grin spreads across my face. His perverse smile hides nothing. I have him now, hook, line and zipper.”
Source: Blood & Spirits
“We can go through anything because Jesus goes before us.”
“We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.”
“We can go up or we can do down. I think generally the world is going on an upward swing. We're in a part of a cycle where people are discovering more. The communications are better. We're getting more into the subtle electricities that control the universe.”
“We can graciously survive life by faith.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.”
Source: Theory of Creative Thought: Based on the Writings of Thomas Troward
“We can grant, too, that for social problems to be diagnosed, some detachment from society is necessary…But social problems are rarely to be solved by men totally outside of society – certainly not by men not merely outside of a particular society but outside of the very concept of society. For if all institutions are “dirty,” why really bother to amend them? Destruction is simpler, purer, more logical, and certainly more exciting. Conscience without responsibility – this is truly the last infirmity of noble mind.”
Source: The Legacy of the Civil War
“We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.”
Source: Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
“We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.”
“We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.”
Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World
“We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.”
“We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.”
“We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.”
“We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.”
“We can handle it.”
“We can hardly be expected to see ourselves objectively, especially in matters of the mind.”
Source: Dreck
“We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.”
Source: For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva
“We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct.”
“We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise; unique, individual, person, vocation; time, history, future; freedom, progress, spirit; faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews.”
“We can hardly imagine a state of mind in which all material objects were regarded as symbols of spirtual truths or episodes in sacred history. Yet, unless we make this effort of imagination, Medieval art is largely incomprehensible.”
“We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!”
Source: Man: The Image of God
“We can harness positive power by remembering.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.”
“We can have a calm connection with our practice if we appreciate that mindful meditation is the cause of inner peace. Through not expecting immediate results and having confidence in the methods, our mind will naturally open and relax. When we create the causes of inner peace, the effects will ripen naturally in their own time.”
Source: Guide to the Mindful Way of Life
“We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.”
“We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.”
“We can have all kinds of plans… Some work out. Sometimes we’re fucked over. And sometimes we didn’t know we were dreaming the wrong dreams all along until we’re living them.”
Source: Dawn of Chaos and Fury
“We can have all the empathy in the world for a group of people and still participate in the structures and systems that oppress them.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“We can have Americans eating affordably and eating in a way that's sustainable.”
“We can have beautiful dreams sometimes, even if they don’t come true, the beauty of the dream about the dream can be beauty in itself”
“We can have confidence in the long-term foundation of our economy ... I think the system basically is sound. I truly do.”
“We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.”
“We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.”
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”
“We can have differing opinions and still relate with gratitude, kindness, and respect.”
“We can have enough clean energy to power every home.”
“We can have eternal life if we want it, but only if there is nothing else we want more.”
“We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.”
“We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.”
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)
“We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.”
“We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.”
“We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.”
“We can have national dialogue where different Syrian parties sit and discuss the future of Syria. You can have interim government or transitional government. Then you have final elections, parliamentary elections, and you're going to have presidential elections.”
“We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century