W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
“we cannot solve problems with the same thinking we used to create them.”
“We cannot "solve" the problem of race in America while ignoring our deep and painful history. Our tendency to ignore our tainted history may arise from a warped self-perception. We do not need to deal with our tainted past because we have risen above that problematic history and moved to a postracial, colorblind America. An assumed exceptionalism belies the belief that we do not have to deal with our history because through our exceptional status we have overcome the past. The destruction of black bodes and black minds can be justified because their sacrifice helped to build our exceptional nation.”
“We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.”
“We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.”
“We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.”
Source: Christ in a Poncho: Testimonials of the Nonviolent Struggles in Latin America
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
“We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978
“We cannot sprinkle some of the truth. We have to speak the whole truth. We have to be honest; not everyone is treated as an American. Hate is contagious in America, but we the people are the cure.”
Source: Why Are You Obsessed with My Race?
“We cannot stand accountable without offending a few pricks.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“We cannot stand alone. With 80 million people in this world of today, you cannot, when you just stand on your own, achieve much even though you may be economically strong.”
“We cannot stand by and allow the future of our country to be undermined by the reality of American children going hungry! Please join in to help the 12 million children who are malnourished in our country.”
“We cannot stand idly by and allow our government to be run by a pack of incompetent ministers.”
Source: A Lark's Conceit
“We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.”
“We cannot stand through the storms of life based on someone else's faith. We must be fully assured in our own hearts and minds.”
Source: Power Thoughts: 12 Strategies to Win the Battle of the Mind
“We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning”
“We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.”
“We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.”
“We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.”
“We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.”
Source: Quiddities
“We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.”
“We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.”
“We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try.”
“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.”
“We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.”
“We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.”
“We cannot study everything at the same time.”
“We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.”
Source: Change Your Brain
“We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.”
“We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.”
“We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.”
Source: Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
“We cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide...t here is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning.”
“We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.”
“We cannot swing up a rope which is attached only to our own belt.”
“We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“We cannot take a step in our Christian life without the help of the Lord, because we are weak.”
“We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.”
“We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.”
Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“We cannot take glory away from God. It belongs to Him. That is why when we become great, we must never forget the great God who made us great.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“We cannot take on anger toward these professors. They are ensnared in a faulty worldview…Let us not blame the world for being the world…We can respond by pulling up stakes and retreating further into our sub-culture or we can be the harbingers of freedom to the captives. Our focus is to be on restoring rather than retreating.”
Source: Back to the Future
“We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.”
Source: A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick
“We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.”
“We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.”
“We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.”
Source: Purpose in Prayer
“We cannot talk with [animals] as we can with human beings, yet we can communicate with them on mental and emotional levels. They should, however, be accorded equality in that they should receive both compassion and respect; it is unworthy of us to exploit them in any way.”
Source: Animals Are Equal: An Exploration of Animal Consciousness
“We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.”
“We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.”