W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands.
It is as simple as that.
It is the rich who are making the world poorer.
Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.”
“We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present.”
“We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale - identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its epistemological base: irrationalism. We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something--and what we must fight for is the supremacy of reason and a view of man as a rational being.”
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world; when our stomachs are full of delicious food; the fighters must feel the poverty not imagine it.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.”
“We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo”
Source: The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].
“We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.”
“We cannot fight or conquer our feelings of grief, anger, pain, or loss. Just like we cannot fight or conquer nature. We yield to it — we know that storms, be it in the desert, heart or at sea, will eventually pass. It is the same with life.
Just please have the courage to fight for your life at the lowest moments. It will get better, I promise. Whatever storm you are going through in your life right now, know that you are not alone in it and know that it will eventually pass...”
“We cannot fight the devil because fight is his invention.”
“We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.”
Source: Putting Amazing Back into Grace: Embracing the Heart of the Gospel
“We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another way of saying that all our seeking will fall short unless God starts and finishes the search. The decisive part of our seeking is not our human ascent to God, but His descent to us. Without God's descent there is no human ascent. The secret of the quest lies not in our brilliance but in His grace.”
“We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.”
“We cannot fix a sickness of the society merely with strategy - that strategy has to be followed by the responsibility of the citizens.”
“We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.”
“We cannot focus upon the weaknesses of one another and evoke strengths. You cannot focus upon the things that you think they are doing wrong, and evoke things that will make you feel better. You've got to beat the drum that makes you feel good when you beat it. And when you do, you'll be a strong signal of influence that will help them to reconnect with who they are.”
“We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.”
“We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.”
“We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us; but if we change what we are saying or doing they will respond differently.”
“We cannot force our self to stay longer with something,situation or with the person who we don't really like . The best decision is to move on so then we can stay happy with our life style.”
“We cannot force people to be intelligent, ethical or wise.”
“We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.”
“We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves.”
“We cannot forget joy. No matter how deep our rage and pain.”
Source: Ocean Light
“We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.”
“We cannot forget the past... But when we find the courage to confront it, when we find the courage to change that past, that's when we build a better future”
“We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.”
Source: Humility: True Greatness
“We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.”
“We cannot fulfill our engagements with the Almighty without we have that Spirit with us. We should so live as to acknowledge the Good Spirit continually. We cannot do this unless we let the Spirit of God rule in temporalities as well as in spiritual matter.”
“We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.”
“We cannot fully appreciate eternal life and all its bliss without first understanding the important testing ground of human life on Earth. We cannot be all until we are one. We cannot be raised high until we go low. And we cannot appreciate all our many freedoms until first we begin with nothing.”
Source: The Angel's Guide to Taking Human Form
“We cannot fully create effective movements for social change if individuals struggling for that change are not also self-actualized or working towards that end. When wounded individuals come together in groups to make change our collective struggle it is often undermined by all that has not been dealt with emotionally.”
Source: Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
“We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.”
“We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.”
“We cannot get anywhere without hope
and yet
we cannot get anywhere on hope alone.”
“We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, air, thinnest air. And so we revolve around each other and our dreams collide. Look out the window in any weather. We are part of all that glamour, drama, change, and should not be ashamed.”
“We cannot get grace from gadgets.”
“We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.”
“We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.”
“We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.”
“We cannot get what we've never had, unless we're willing to do what we've never done.”
“We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.”
“We cannot give our children what we don’t have.”
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves”
Source: Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.”
“We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.”
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
“We cannot glorify God when we refuse to celebrate others”
“We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.”