W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.”
Source: Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983
“We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.”
“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”
Source: 100 Selected Stories
“We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.”
“We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.”
“We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.”
“We can't change it. We have to decide how we'll respond.”
“We can't change minds without knowing what's in them.”
“We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.”
“We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're going to continue to operate, whether or not we divest of their stock. However, divesting might be helpful in terms of disrupting the story that what these companies do is perfectly okay. This situation differs from apartheid in a key regard though: racial equality in South Africa was no threat whatsoever to capitalism as we know it. Ending the fossil fuel era is a much deeper change.”
“We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.”
“We can't change the past, but we can look to the future, and we can - we can hold ourselves accountable, to our - not just to our - our children but to all aspects of the - the world we interact with”
“We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.”
“We can't change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.”
“We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.”
“We can't change the world until we change ourselves.”
“We can't change what we've done, but we can always change what we're going to do.”
Source: Time Untime
“We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”
“We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.”
Source: Adultery: A novel
“We can't coherently deny, or even decline to affirm, that we are free.”
“We can't command our love, but we can our actions.”
Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: free audiobook included: Illustrated and Unabridged
“We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.”
“We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing.”
“We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.”
“We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.”
“We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections - or to become candidates themselves - they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether.”
“We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?”
“We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood.”
“We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.”
“We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.”
“We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.”
“We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.”
“We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!”
Source: Thinking in Systems: A Primer
“We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.”
“We can't control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.”
“We can't control what other people do and how they treat us, but we can control our response to them.”
“We can't control what people do or say, even if it's dumb.”
Source: The Lisa Scottoline Collection: Volume 1: Look Again, Save Me
“We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.”
“We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.”
“We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.”
“We can't count on the Fed to inject this level of liquidity that we saw last year.”
“We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.”
“We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.”
“We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.”
Source: The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia
“We can't cut and run.”
“We can't defend the country by looking at the borderline as the first line of defense rather than as the last line of defense. We have to secure the flow of goods and people by engaging with foreign entities. We assure our security by securing the flows as early as we can before they arrive and as far away from our borders as we can.”
“We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them”
“We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.”
Source: Sisterhood is powerful: an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement
“We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.”
“We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.”