W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can ill afford to wait until we have worked through all our memories & feelings about incest before learning to rest & play. While it may seem to be a natural impulse to get to the bottom of things & purge ourselves fully, we need to regularly examine the full picture of our lives for balance along the way…Learning to rest & play is an essential part of our healing.”
Source: Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
“We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.”
Source: The Chomsky - Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
“We can imagine and pretend that love is business, but I assure you there is no love in doing business.”
“We can imagine how to create and be creative on a beach in a cosmic sky. No grain of sand is merely just sandy; with imagination at hand the sand can become whatever you fancy.”
Source: The Unity Tree: A Whimsical Muse on Cosmic Consciousness
“We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.”
“We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.”
Source: The Library at Night
“We can imagine the impossible, provided we do not imagine it in perfect detail and all at once.”
Source: On the Plurality of Worlds
“We can immortalise, glorify and canonise, but irk us and we are just as easily able to eviscerate you with a single blow of the pen where you will remain wretchedly exposed for all eternity....”
“We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.”
Source: Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year
“We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we see the spectral lines emitted by them.”
“We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.”
“We can increase our wish to practise by reflecting on the significant benefits of training for both ourselves and others.”
Source: Guide to the Mindful Way of Life
“We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships.”
Source: The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide To The Nine Insights (Storycuts)
“We can influence dopamine production through our diets. You can’t actually eat dopamine, but you can eat the thing that makes it—tyrosine. It is a nonessential amino acid, meaning that you must consume it in your diet because your body doesn’t make its own. However, before you start rushing out to the supermarket to get a cart full of tyrosine—cheese, soybeans, beef, lamb, pork, fish, chicken, nuts, seeds, eggs, dairy, beans, and whole grains—research shows that it really only helps if you’re deficient to begin with.”
Source: The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion
“We can influence people for bad or good.”
“We can influence the future but not see it.”
Source: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you.' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attracting, not proselytizing.”
“We can intend not to be our program.”
Source: Awakening the Third Eye: Discovering the True Essence of Recapitulation
“We can invade everyone from Grenada to Afghanistan, but if anyone spills a drop of our blood, it's terrorism.”
Source: The Lucifer Gospel
“We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.”
“We can invent only with memory.”
“We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.”
“We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack. In other words, what happens for most of us is that we are tempted and we are taught, we are trained as it were, to meet limited circumstances with limited thought.”
“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
“We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.”
“We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.”
“We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.”
“We can just lie back and look at the stars.”
“We can keep doing the same thing, but it would be unreasonable to expect a different result. It's very important, I think, for us to stop and look at what we're doing.We've been applying a flamethrower to the Middle East. And not just to the Middle East.”
“We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.”
“We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.”
“We can know a lot. And still, no doubt, there are rash and wonderful ideas brewing somewhere; there are many surprises yet to come.”
Source: A Poetry Handbook
“We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?”
“We can know all the scriptures, do all the stuff, obey all the rules, but if we aren’t willing to be offended by His reconciling love, if we aren’t willing to repent, to change our thoughts, to step away from us and them thinking, then we are missing the whole point.
This Jonah story is on every page of the Bible and in every cell of our bodies. Over and again, God is revealing Himself perfectly through Christ as gracious, compassionate, slow to anger, forgiving, redeeming, restoring, abounding in love, and desiring to save us from calamity.”
“We can know, not what a thing is, but what its name is.”
“We can know nothing about what is outside us, if we overlook ourselves,' he thinks now, 'the universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.”
Source: Mr Palomar
“We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.”
“We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.”
Source: The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
Source: War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
“We can know ourselves only because we can remember.”
Source: A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theatres of the Brain
“We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.”
“We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.”
Source: Boy Toy
“We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.”
“We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion...without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.”
“We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.”
“We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.”
“We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.”
“We can learn a lesson from the butterfly beginning it's life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly.”
Source: Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“We can learn a lot from young children and infants who are able to shift from agitation to amusement in a moment simply by having their needs met. Once crying newborns get fed, held, or changed, they don’t brood for another hour about how mad they are that it took so long for their caregivers to respond; they shift instantly. Unfortunately, we lose this ability and develop instead a habit of thinking and rationalizing our way through problems.”