W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We cannot validate worshipping a God where faith in the correct unbelievable, supernatural story, of millions of supernatural stories, is more important than things like compassion, and love, and trying to be a good person, and trying to make the world a better place. You cannot justify that.”
“We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.”
“We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.”
“We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.”
Source: The Age of Paradox
“We cannot wait for others to make a difference, we have to be the change ourselves. To be a part of the making of yet another cancer hospital is a blessing in itself.' Watch me live on ARY Digital and donate to Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Peshawar as much as you can.”
“We cannot wait for the other shoe to drop, when the road becomes unendurably bumpy. If the aura of truth starts to wane and the light of the sky begins to splinter, only resilience can settle things. (“Steaming ahead”)”
“We cannot wait for the storm to blow over; we must learn to work in the rain.”
“We cannot walk alone.”
“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”
“We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.”
Source: Literary Values and Other Papers
“We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.”
“We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.”
“We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.”
“We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.”
“We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.”
“We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.”
Source: The Ordeal of Change
“We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.”
Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history
“We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.”
“We cannot win this World Cup, because we are not at that level yet. For us, we have to play the game of our lives seven times to win the tournament.”
“We cannot wish a civilization to reality, we can only will it to reality.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“We cannot wish for that we know not.”
“We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.”
“We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.”
“We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.”
“We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.”
Source: On the Social Contract
“We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.”
“We cannot write about death without writing about life. Stories that start at the end of life often take us back to the past, to the beginning - or to some beginning - to unearth what there was before, what will be missed, what will be lost.”
Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
“We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.”
“We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.”
“We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.”
Source: The Culture of Education
“We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But, like those other fantasies that we can't disprove, we can say that God is very, very improbable.”
“We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.”
“We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.”
Source: Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.”
“We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.”
“we cant give control to self and expect a change in self”
“We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning." -Pg.242-”
“We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.”
“we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.”
“We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that’s a risk we can’t take.”
“We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.”
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.”
Source: Tree of Smoke
“We can’t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. That’s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You don’t have to burn any incense, and you definitely don’t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.”
“We can’t change history, but we can create the future.”
“We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.”
“We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.”
“We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.”
“We can’t forget that I owe you my life.” She gazed at him. “We can’t forget that I belong to you.” “I like that sound of that,” Alexander said, hugging her tighter.”
“We can’t have landfills forever and we can’t ask others to accept our trash.”