W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!”
“We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam Hussein a final warning, and now wants to give him another final warning. And, if he doesn't heed that, they will threaten him with yet another warning.”
“We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.”
“We cannot allow the reputation of football and FIFA to be dragged through the mud any longer.”
“We cannot allow the whims of a few rich men to continue throttling the well-being of millions.”
Source: X-Men: Black
“We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.”
“We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.”
“We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.”
“We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.”
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
Source: Great Speeches
“We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond.”
“We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”
“We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?”
Source: The Irrational Season
“We cannot always determine our situation or our lot in life, but we can determine our response to these circumstances. That is what makes a man free; not his conditions, but his actions.”
“We cannot always have everything our way. As co-creators of a shared reality, our free will always operates within the confines of the collective consciousness.”
“We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.”
Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition
“We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.”
“We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.”
“We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we cannot allow our vision or ideals to fade, either. For if we do, we have but one course left for us. And that flash of light will not only rob us of our vision, but it will rob us of our lives, our progeny, and our very existence.”
“We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.”
“We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.”
Source: Kingdoms at war
“We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.”
“We cannot and we must not allow ourselves to get distracted from our sacred duty. We cannot and we must not lose focus on the things that matter most.”
“We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.”
“We cannot anticipate in advance how anyone will respond when they first rub elbows with Eros’ malady of passion and madness. Eros arrives on a wing of a devious angel to take control of our body, encapsulate our mind, and seize command over the quality of our life. In its purest manifestation, romantic love guarantees to rip us asunder, because we are unwittingly dispossessed of our precious sense of self-control.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.”
“We cannot apply our complexity criteria to God because everything must be inherently effortless and simple for God; otherwise, there would be no God. If there is a God, he cannot function based on the chaotic idea of trials and errors and leave everything to chance. The role of chance is limited to exercising the universal potential for infinity and free will.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.”
Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980
“We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.”
“We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.”
“We cannot arrive at the original "I" through rational thought! The Self has to remain forever fuzzy. Indeed, it is the Subject that cannot be observed, the Name that cannot be named, the Word than cannot be spoken, It is the Silence that cannot be comprehended by the rational mind.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!”
“We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.”
“We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.”
“We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.”
“We cannot assign good or evil in man, due to race, country, religion, gender or status. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â There are seeds of every kind, in the hearts of men worldover--and what one waters grows. Â Â For all that is repeated, accumulates.”
Source: Poetry Dust: In the Middle of My Before and After
“We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.”
“We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.”
“We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations: Classical dialogues (Roman) Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen
“We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.”
“We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.”
“We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.”
Source: The Prince
“We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.”
“We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.”
“We cannot avoid observing the continual emphasis upon female sexuality as acceptable only when women were safely designated as the property of one specific male and that any deviation from that rule was denounced as harlotry or adultery and subject to punishment by death, making the sexual customs of the older religion rather difficult to follow.”
Source: When God Was A Woman
“We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.”
“We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.”
“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
“We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.”