W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
“We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.”
“We cannot define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other, "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says, "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?"”
“We cannot deny that our decision today will have an impact on the ability of law enforcement to combat crime. Cell phones have become important tools in facilitating coordination and communication among members of criminal enterprises, and can provide valuable incriminating information about dangerous criminals. Privacy comes at a cost.”
“We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.”
“We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.”
Source: Fierce Attachments: A Memoir
“We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.”
Source: Dialogues and a Diary. [With Plates, Including Portraits.].
“We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.”
“We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.”
“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”
“We cannot dim another person’s light without first extinguishing our own.”
Source: Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life
“We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.”
“We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.”
Source: Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”
“We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power and a vision far beyond any rational thought or cultural creation of which we are capable.”
Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth
“We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.”
“We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.”
“We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.”
“We cannot disrespect the wishes of states.”
“We cannot distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or know what obedience we owe to the magistrate, or what we may justly expect from him, unless we know what he is, why he is, and by whom he is made to be what he is.... I cannot know how to obey unless I know in what, and to whom; nor in what unless I know what ought to be commanded; nor what ought to be commanded unless I understand the original right of the commander, which is the great arcanum.”
“We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology.”
Source: Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation
“We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.”
Source: The House in Good Taste
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.”
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”
“We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.”
“We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.”
“We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.”
“We cannot do everything, but we can all do something.”
Source: Activist Faith: From Him and For Him
“We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.”
“We cannot do things differently, we cannot carve out different ways of relating to others, until we can take responsibility for what we have done and those we have injured in the process.”
“We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.”
“We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.”
“We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.”
“We cannot drill our way out of our addiction to oil.”
“We cannot earn God’s blessing, it is an expression of His unending love to people”
“We cannot educate the citizens of tomorrow based on the requirements of yesterday.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's homework for her. That's an energy drain. More times than she cares to remember, Nellie Wong, Asian American feminist writer, has been called by white women wanting a list of Asian American women who can give readings or workshops. We are in danger of being reduced to purveyors of resource lists.”
“We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.”
“We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.”
Source: Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven
“We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.”
Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons
“We cannot embrace the New Mind by just sitting around and talking about it. It demands that we alter not just our thinking, but our way of living down to the smallest details.”
“We cannot empathize this enough: sustaining improvements begins with proper planning, followed by proper execution and management.”
Source: Value Stream Mapping: How to Visualize Work and Align Leadership for Organizational Transformation
“We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.”
“We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.”
“We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.”
“We cannot end just one form of oppression, so we need to be on board with other activists. If we are not, we doom social justice activists to perpetually pulling up the innumerable shoots that spring from the very deep roots of oppression. Furthermore, inability to see one’s own privilege and ignorance of the struggles that others face (in a homophobic, racist, ageist, ableist, sexist society) are major impediments to social justice activism. Those who are privileged must give way so that others can take the lead, bringing new social justice concerns and methods to the activist’s table.”
Source: Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice
“We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.”
“We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.”