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 leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.”
“We can't leave the internet to the bullies. You deserve to speak out and be heard just as much as the next man. Don't let bullies silence you. Support others, and make sure you look after yourself.”
“We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.”
“We can't let others judge information for us.”
“We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.”
“We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Let's fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.”
“We can't literally talk with everybody else on the planet or even with representatives of every group. But we can be in favor of the respectful exchange of ideas in ways that don't presuppose that all the right answers are on our own side. Still, we should all have moral bottom lines. Once genocide or torture begins the priority shifts from understanding to stopping it. One hope I have for the global conversation as instantiated in human rights treaties is that we are slowly coming to consensus on certain moral baselines.”
“We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.”
“We can't live in a place of fear.”
“We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.”
“We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!”
“We can't live other people's lives for them. Even if we love them.”
Source: Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour
“We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.”
Source: The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel
“We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.”
“We can't live true to our set of values unless American educational system is strong. I really believe that if we don't get that right we will not compete because we won't believe that our people can compete, and we'll turn inward. We won't lead. That will be bad for the world.”
“We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.”
“We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.”
Source: The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
“We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“We can't make a giant sprawling movie. We're going to make a small movie. And what we got is what I could get, performance-wise.”
“We can't make America great again without love, without hope, without justice, without peace and without an acknowledgement that the fear that was stoked not only by President-Elect Trump's campaign, but also a lot of fear was stoked by Democrats as well, but there are people who are really fearful.”
“We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.”
“We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.”
“We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.”
“We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.”
“We can't move quickly. You move quick out here and you die quick.”
“We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.”
“We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.”
“We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.”
“We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.”
“We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.”
“We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.”
“We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?”
Source: Eating Animals
“We can't point at an image of an evil god, such as Satan, and blame it for our faults and weaknesses. We can't blame fate. Every second of each day we're creating our futures, shaping the courses of our lives.”
Source: Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner
“We can't possibly fight all the terrorists in all the countries where they exist because we don't have the money or manpower to do so.”
“We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“We can't predict all the struggles and storms in life, not even the ones just around the next corner, but as persons of faith and hope, we know beyond a shadow of any doubt that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true and the best is yet to come.”
“We can't predict the future.”
“We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets.”
“We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.”
“We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.”
“We can't reach old age by another man's road.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.”
“We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order out there, with the urgency of the threat, I think it's very likely that we'll get something passed, later this year.”
“We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.”
“We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”
“We can't really understand just how wonderful Heaven will be unless we first know how wonderful each of us will be when we get there.”
“We can't really waste our time; we have to see that we are all in the same boat and that different religious traditions point in the same direction, and now let's get moving together, doing something for peace.”
“We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.”