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 tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.”
“We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.”
“We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.”
“We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!”
“We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.”
“We can't treat the matter of black economic empowerment as just the redistribution of existing wealth. It really has to focus on new investment, on growth, on development of employment and so on and so on.”
“We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.”
“We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?”
“We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.”
“We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.”
“We can't unify around a single premise! Name one thing the Republican Party today could unify on. You can't.”
“We can't use the word normal anymore because it's sort of come to be politically incorrect, because normal implies a classification, and categorizations, and exclusions, and so forth. So neurotypical is the word that we now have to use for what I call normal behavior. Neurotypical behaviors are those kinds of behaviors within the range of usual human conduct that do not rise to the level of a disorder.”
“We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.”
“We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Now, this is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make no mistake, today, not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status that is code for second-class status.”
“We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done.”
“We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.”
“We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constituencies and do everything they can to demonstrate confidence in the economy, and I think that can be contagious.”
“We can't wait until everything is OK-with us or with the rest of the world-to feel thankful, or we will never experience joy at all.”
Source: Attitudes of Gratitude, 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Give and Receive Joy Every Day of Your Life
“We can't walk where we want to walk or be who we want to be or dress the way we want to dress or go anywhere any time of day. I am talking about the freedom that comes with just knowing that you're okay, and that you have value and you have identity, and you don't have to keep proving yourself.”
“We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.”
“We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.”
“We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.”
“We can't win a war, but we can win an election.”
“We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.”
“We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.”
“We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.”
“We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.”
“We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.”
“We can't, and we should not, compare sufferings. We come together as a family of God, hand in hand. And then together coming and standing upon the promises of God, knowing that no matter who you are, no matter what you're going through, that God knows it, He is with you, He is going to pull you through.”
“We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”
Source: The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“We can't, you know, use our military to make sure the planet doesn't get warmer. And so that kind of leadership, of being able to bring people together, to apply practical commonsense solutions based on facts, based on science, based on what works you know, that's been the approach I have taken consistently as a public servant. That's the kind of style that I think we need in the presidency right now.”
“We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.”
Source: The Breath of Suspension
“We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.”
“We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.”
Source: Essential Chomsky
“We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.”
“We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.”
“We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.”
“We Canadians need, as a country, to be much more present globally than we have been today.”
“We cannever achieve a perfect relationship;
but we can only try. Without trying, we will never know. Let's continue the journey of trying to heal our relationships.”
“We cannibalized this bike as much as we could've.”
“We cannibals must help these Christians.”
Source: Moby-Dick (Unabridged) + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick
“We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.”
“We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.”
“We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.”
“We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.”
Source: An Anthology
“We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.”
Source: Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology
“We cannot abolish systemic persecution without dismantling systemic privilege.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.”
“We cannot accept in victory what we would not accept in defeat.”
“We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”
Source: Wonder