W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot put off living until we are ready.”
“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.”
“We cannot reach the pinnacle except by taking advantage of the abilities we have and acquiring those that we do not.”
Source: Enjoy Your Life
“We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.”
“We cannot really break God’s laws, we can only end up breaking ourselves.”
“We cannot really experience something while we are thinking, not even the act of thinking.”
“We cannot really know God if we do not pray.”
“We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.”
Source: Mind of the Maker
“We cannot really love the dead. We love a fantasm that secretly consoles. What love sometimes mistakes for death is a kind of intense suffering, a pain that can be endured and absorbed. But the idea of a real ending, that cannot be envisaged . . . Indeed, in the language of love the concept of an ending is devoid of sense. (So we must go beyond love or utterly change it.)”
Source: The Black Prince
“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”
“We cannot really think in one way and act in another.”
Source: The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science
“We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
“We cannot recall our dreams, they cannot come back to us. If a dream comes – but what sort of coming is a dream's? Through what night does it make its way? If it comes to us, it does so only by way of forgetfulness, a forgetfulness which is not only censorship or simply repression. We dream without memory, in such a way that the dream of any particular night is no doubt a fragment of a response to an immemorial dying, barred by desire’s repetitiousness.
There is no stop, there is no interval between dreaming and waking. In this sense, it is possible to say: never, dreamer, can you awake (nor, for that matter, are you able to be addressed thus, summoned).
The dream is without end, waking is without beginning; neither one nor the other ever reaches itself. Only dialectical language relates them to each other in view of a truth.”
“We cannot reform our forefathers.”
Source: Adam Bede ... Tenth edition
“We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.”
“We cannot regulate what we refuse to acknowledge. Awareness is the first step toward personal freedom.”
Source: Exploring Emotional Intelligence: Practical Tools and Strategies to Enhance Emotional Awareness and Regulation
“We cannot relive Apollo, but we can preserve its legacy; we can continue to tell the story.”
Source: Apollo: An Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean
“We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.”
“We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, 'You cannot inspect quality into a product.' The quality is there or it isn't by the time it's inspected.”
“We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love we are trying to communicate, we must express it in his or her primary love language.”
Source: The 5 Love Languages/The 5 Love Languages for Men Set
“We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.”
“We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies… We are at the critical stage today for biotechnology, and we will reach the stage where we need to directly implement defensive technologies for nanotechnology during the late teen years of this century… A self-replicating pathogen, whether biological or nanotechnology based, could destroy our civilization in a matter of days or weeks.”
Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
“We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.”
“We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science”
“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.”
“We cannot remove guns once they are made. We can still stop making bullets.
2 Oct International Day of Non Violence”
“We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.”
“We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!”
“We cannot replicate other people’s lives. We must each institute and broker a personalized meaning to our exclusive existence. We must each serve as our own Zen master, awaken to our inviolate personal truth, and strive to fulfill our sui generis (unique) nature.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.”
“We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.”
“We cannot resist the fascination of sacrifice, since a passion for sacrifices is part of a Chessplayer's nature”
“We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.”
“We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.”
Source: Jimmy Carter
“We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!”
“We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.”
Source: Where is science going?
“We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.”
“We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.”
“We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.”
Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.”
Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America.”
“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
“We cannot risk living all our lives under emergency measures.”
“We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.”
“We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.”
“We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.”
“We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.”
Source: Gifts differing: understanding personality type
“We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.”
“We cannot save everyone, can we?’ I said to her as we continued walking on our way. I turned my head back only to find the spot the beggar had occupied empty.
‘Not everyone,’ she said. She took my hand once more in hers, kissed the back of it, and finished one of the sincerest axioms I had heard in sometime. ‘We must save,’ she said, ‘only the ones we can while we can.’
Leila Bakr, in A TIME TO LOVE IN TEHRAN, and speaking to her love, John Lockwood”