W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.”
“We cannot be a union of states if we fail to unite as people.”
“We cannot be afraid of the dark that they live in.”
“We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.”
“We cannot be always successful, but we can be always true.”
“We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”
Source: The Presidential campaign, 1976
“We cannot be caught in the bond of suspicion. We have to carry out what we should be doing with a firm determination.”
“We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.”
“We cannot be consistently right until we are willing to be wrong.”
Source: Solving Scripture: Unlocking the Full Power of God's Word
“We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.”
Source: TNTC Letters of John
“We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.”
“We cannot be damaged into health.”
“We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.”
“We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.”
Source: Evangelism that works: how to reach changing generations with the unchanging gospel
“We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence.”
“We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature.”
“We cannot be guilty of a greater act of uncharitableness, than to interpret the afflictions which befall our neighbors as punishments and judgments.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“We cannot be happy in our lives unless we know how lucky we are to have what we have.”
“We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.”
“We cannot be held to promises beyond our power or our means. That is why - since nothing is really in our power but our will - it is on the will that all the rules and duties of Man are based and established.”
“We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.”
“We cannot be in the present if we are still clinging to our past.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.”
“We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.”
“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity
“We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.”
“We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.”
“We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.”
“We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.”
“We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.”
“We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.”
“We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.”
“We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.”
“We cannot be spun, or at least we'd like to think that we cannot be. And the presidents who are trying to - too overtly to try to say, here is what you historians and what you later Americans should think of my presidency, 30 or 40 years later, they look silly.”
“We cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.”
“We cannot be sure how many universes make up the Universe. The Universe we live in, which began based on a theory of the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago, is only one of the many, comprising a much bigger Universe than we think. We believe the energy of the Omniverse can explain the dark energy for which we cannot find the source or explanation.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
“We cannot be sure we know what reality is. We must find out what reality is. The majority of what we see is an illusion. The foundation of reality is our illusions about it, regardless of how paradoxical this sounds. Reality is an illusion, which does not make it any less real or valuable. In this reality, there is no Cartesian dualism since the underlying reality of everything is a Universal Mind. Matter is just a construct of the Universal Mind and is a valuable illusion; it is more useful and realistic if we know this.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”
Source: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
“We cannot be too cautious, Hannelore. Just because someone knocks on the door doesn't mean you have to open it. Sometimes, sweet girl, there are wolves at the door. If we are not careful, they might eat us.”
Source: Salt to the Sea
“We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.”
“We cannot be too intelligent. The person or people reading what we have written, or listening to us, can be too stupid.”
“We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.”
Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr
“We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.”
“We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.”
“We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned...that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.”