W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot live in isolation. We need each other. We need those who are willing to help others and those who are willing to receive help without being selfish after they have been helped.”
“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.”
Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
“We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.”
Source: Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds
“We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.”
“We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”
“We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.”
“We cannot live side by side with obviously distressed people unless they are to blame and we are innocent. Nothing inside them or the way they live can be allowed to disturb our lives.”
Source: Tao of Survival: Spirituality in Social Care and Counselling
“We cannot live without money, but we can live without a bank account.”
“We cannot live without our lives”
Source: Prisons that Could Not Hold
“We cannot live without some connection to the divine – and beauty is divine – because in its absence life is too short, too dismal, and too tragic”
Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
“We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men”
Source: Cross Creek
“We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.”
Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
“We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.”
“We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.”
“We cannot live, we cannot look at the truth about ourselves without letting ourselves be looked at and generated by Christ in daily Eucharistic Adoration.”
“We cannot long survive spiritually separated in a world that is geographically together.”
Source: Strength to Love
“We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.”
“We cannot look at the past or the future except by means of the imagination but again the imagination of backward glances is one thing and the imagination of looks ahead something else. Even the psychologists concede this present particular, for, with them, memory involves a reproductive power, and looks ahead involve a creative power: the power of our expectations.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.”
“We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.”
Source: My Life In My Words
“We cannot lose. We win – or we learn.”
“We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.”
Source: Mend My Broken Heart
“We cannot Love another for just their strengths. We must also Love their weaknesses.”
Source: Love Over Fear: A Foundation for Autonomy
“We cannot love God unless we love each other, and to love we must know each other. We know Him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet, too, even with a crust, where there is companionship.”
“We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.”
Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.”
“We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.”
“We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”
“We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.”
“We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell.”
Source: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism
“We cannot make any change if we don't change ourselves .”
“We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary
“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.”
“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.”
“We cannot make good news out of bad practice.”
“We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves.”
Source: You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
“We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.”
“We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.”
Source: An Essay on the Restoration of Property
“We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.”
“We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people about it day after day after day.”
“We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.”
“We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.”
“We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.”
“We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.”
“We cannot measure what Children learn from stories and books. Any particular word or image could strike them in a way that can never be expressed. Rather than focusing on one particular moral Children should be encouraged to read passionately, with an open mind.”
Source: The Postwoman and Other Stories
“We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.”
“We cannot meet 'em [Democrates] halfway. We can't cross the aisle. These people, I'm talking about the left wherever you find them, the Democrats, they have to be defeated.”