W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“we can watch x-files together while we browse the internet for info on area 51?”
Source: Carpel Tunnel.
“We can wear whatever we want and get away with it. Just be confident about being who you are and dressing for that person.”
“We can weather disappointment in ourselves better if we act kindly towards ourselves.”
Source: Frazzlebrain: Break Free from Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology
“We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.”
“We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.”
“We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.”
Source: Advice from a Failure
“We can witness collective movements alarmingly influenced by genuine social phobias and affecting the most industrialized and educated societies. Exclusive identities are being asserted, singular affiliations are being stressed, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to recognize the other in the mirror of one´s own quest. Reducing the other to the sole expression of his or her "difference" is one of the stages of dehumanization; and law alone - let alone the right to equality - cannot suffice to remedy the situation. Here comes the time of the new "barbarians".”
Source: On Super-Diversity
“We can witness it, but we stay in a space within ourself that is connected to a more authentic part of ourselves. That is what the warning is about.”
“We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.”
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers”
“We can work together across countries and cultures like never before through the Internet and social media. Everyone can make a difference, whether it is by building a school, sponsoring a child's education, volunteering at their local school, or working to hold leaders accountable for their promises.”
“We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.”
“We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.”
“We can work, study, laugh and have fun, dance, sing, and enjoy many different experiences. These are a wonderful part of life, but they are not central to why we are here. The opportunity to choose good over evil is precisely why we are here. Not one of us would say, "I want to choose evil." We all want to choose the right. However, the choice of good over evil is not always easy, because evil frequently lurks behind smiling eyes.”
“We can worry about tomorrow, or we can dance. I know what I want.”
Source: Somewhere Beyond the Sea
“We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.”
“We can wrestle sometimes and see who is OK and who is KO.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.”
“We can yet make amends, manage our impact, change the direction and once again become a species in harmony with nature. All we require is the will.”
Source: A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
“We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And the Republicans on my side understand that the majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current.”
“We can't abolish prejudice through laws.”
“We can't accommodate terrorism. When someone uses the slaughter of innocent people to advance a so-called political cause, at that point the political cause becomes immoral and unjust and they should be eliminated from any serious discussion, any serious debate.”
“We can't achieve excellence through talent alone. Or merely by making technological improvements. We can't even buy our way to excellence, no matter how much money we have available to spend. More dollars will never do it. We have to develop a strong corporate conscience. Ethical muscle. And that doesn't happen by accident either.”
“We can't afford any president to fail.”
“We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.”
“We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.”
“We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.”
“We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.”
“We can't afford to be killing one another.”
“We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.”
“we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way”
“We can't afford to let the international community and the world lose faith in the diplomatic track.”
“We can't afford to lose control of our own borders or to take on new financial burdens at a time when we are not adequately providing for the jobs, the health care and the education of our own people.”
“We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.”
“We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.”
“We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.”
“We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.”
“We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.”
“We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.”
Source: Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity
“We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.”
Source: Dubin's Lives: A Novel
“We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.”
“We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.”
“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”
“We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.”
“We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.”
“We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.”
“We can't all come and go by bubble!”
“We can't all do everything.”
“We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.”
“We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.”