W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.”
Source: The Works of John Owen
“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.”
“We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were intentionally created and guaranteed along with it.
– Gerald Sider.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“We can have our hearts broken over so much more. It is important to recognize the full spectrum of heartbreak. We can be heartbroken by lost and by disappointment. But heartbreak is not just this negative image we see, it's not this terrible experience that brings no benefits.”
“We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.”
“We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.”
“We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.”
“We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.”
“We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.”
“We can have peace, but if we continue to hold out, we can obtain more.”
“We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.”
“We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.”
“We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.”
“We can have the final word on hate, neglect, disease and all the other insidious characters that still script their way into our stories...for now, but not forever.”
“We can have traders, without them being traitors.
We can trade, without trading others.
We can trade our traits, and not our worst ones, with others.
We can trade our traitors for better traders, or they can become better traders themselves.
Let the market trade this way.”
“We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.”
“We can have whatever it is that we choose. I don't care how big it is.”
“We can have whatever it is we choose, I don't care how big it is. You become what you think about, but you also attract what you think about most.”
“We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.”
“We can,” he murmured against her mouth, his breath a hot puff of longing. “We can do anything we want. I’ve never met anyone who needs to be held and loved as much as you do, Harper. Well, it so happens that you’ve got a man here with strong arms made to keep you safe. With so much love inside him that it’s just busting to get out. It’s all for you, minou. No one else I’d rather give it to.”
Source: Irresistible You
“We can heal others or manifest things by changing the subconscious thought patterns and collapsing the quantum wave functions through conscious attention.”
Source: Ray 114 Chakra System Names, Locations and Functions
“We can heal ourselves by changing the environment inside our bodies. Potentially harmful invaders, then, will have nowhere to grow and will become harmless.”
“We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.”
Source: Champion: A Legend Novel
“We can hear more from God if we learn to pray more.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“We can hear others, and we can travel with them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system, like so many leaves of grass. But the game makes me wonder wheter we can really ever fully become another.”
Source: Paper Towns
“We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.”
“We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.”
“We can help educate the individuals who are doing the things they shouldn't be doing in my opinion by understanding that there is a way to achieve their goals and desires whether it's communication skills so they stop hitting and using their anger as oppose to their intelligence.”
“We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle”
Source: Awakening of the Heart: Essential Buddhist Sutras and Commentaries
“We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.”
“We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become. We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.”
“We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction.”
Source: Rebel Queen
“We can help people a great deal by thinking about them positively and developing metta towards them. And sometimes we can help people just by keeping out of their way – or rather by not getting in their way. Sometimes people need space, and we help them most by giving it to them, or at least not taking it from them.”
Source: The Bodhisattva Ideal : Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism
“We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.”
“We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction”
“We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.”
“We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.”
“We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."”
“We can honestly say that everyone we've known who has used effective communication has been grateful for it in the long run. Often, effective communication brings about huge relief by showing you just how strongly your partner feels about you -- and by strengthening the bond between you two. And even though in some instances the response may not be what you hoped for and you'll be convinced that you've ruined everything -- if only you had said or done something else, he would surely have come around -- we've never heard anyone say in retrospect that they regretted raising an important issue in a dating or relationship setting. In fact, they overwhelmingly express gratitude that effective communication got them that one step closer to their long-term goal of either finding the right person or strengthening their existing bond.”
Source: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
“We can hope.”
“We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.”
“We can hope that the responsibilities and realities will weigh on Donald Trump and he will not be the president we fear, but rather something more stable.”
“We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.”
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Source: The Problem of Pain
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.”
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
“We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.”
“We can ill afford to have activities conducted as "non-profit," that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.”
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship