W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.”
“We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?”
“We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We cannot achieve immersion without bringing our subjectivity into play.”
Source: Emotions and Fieldwork
“We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.”
“We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are”
Source: Leadership Principles for Graduates: Create Success in Life One Day at a Time
“We cannot actually build the future, we have to be the future.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“We cannot address TB only with vaccines and medications. We cannot address it only with comprehensive STP programs. We must also address the root cause of tuberculosis, which is injustice. In a world where everyone can eat, and access healthcare, and be treated humanely, tuberculosis has no chance. Ultimately, we are the cause.
We must also be the cure.”
Source: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“We cannot adopt the way of living that was satisfactory a hundred years ago. The world in which we live has changed, and we must change with it.”
“We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.”
“We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.”
“We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.”
“We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.”
Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
“We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.”
Source: Journal of a Solitude
“We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.”
“We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boys and girls reach beyond the ordinary and strive for the extraordinary. We must teach our children to weather the hurricanes of life, pick up the pieces, and rebuild. We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point- one on life's Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple”
Source: Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America
“We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself.”
“We cannot afford to be discouraged from challenging the corporate control of our food system, our genetic commons, our shared resources, or our democracy. The history of social change in our nation shows that the political system can be reformed, even if the road is long and zigzag.”
Source: Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America
“We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot destroy them.”
“We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.”
“We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.”
“We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.”
“We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.”
Source: The Control of Trusts
“We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.”
“We cannot afford to lose another decade. If we lose another decade, it becomes extremely costly to achieve climate stabilization.”
“We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.”
“We cannot afford to not stick and work together for the betterment of our community.”
“We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead.”
“We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.”
“we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.”
“We cannot afford to walk down that dangerous path of government overstepping its boundaries into the most personal parts of our lives.”
“We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed.”
“We cannot aim for the stars, with our mind smashing rocks together.”
Source: Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion
“We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.”
“We cannot all be heroes; most of us accept this fact, but some choose instead to be villains.”
Source: Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
“We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.”
Source: Othello: Third Series
“We cannot all be masters.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“We cannot all do great things. But we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.”
Source: Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems
“We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.”
“We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.”
“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
“We cannot allow employers in Germany to pay hourly wages of 50 cents and shift the remainder of the burden to the taxpayer. After all, we want to create jobs, not open a self-service shop for resourceful employers.”
“We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.”
“We cannot allow our fear of anger to deflect us nor seduce us into settling for anything less than the hard work of excavating honesty...”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“We cannot allow our Republican party to be based on what Olympia Snowe and Ben Nelson or Blanche Lincoln may or may not do. What's smart about that? You do that, build a strong future on a foundation with unreliable keystones.”
“We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.”
“We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or people -be they indigenous peoples, or peoples of Asian or African or American descent, or Jews or Muslims- are not sacrificed on an altar of progress for some while there are setbacks to others.”
“We cannot allow the American flag to be shot at anywhere on earth if we are to retain our respect and prestige”