W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line.”
“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.”
Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.”
“We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.”
Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether some philosopher or other thinks it is. Roughly, the more demanding our conception of knowledge is, the less plausible foreknowledge is; the weaker our conception of knowledge is, the more plausible foreknowledge is.”
“We certainly have to improve on our performances especially up front. It's not that the strikers are not in form, as all four of them are; they just have to be more accurate.”
“We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.”
“We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy.”
“We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.”
“We certainly noted that when given the opportunity, women handle money more efficiently. They have long term vision, they manage money more carefully. Men are more callous with money. Their first reflex is to blow it by getting drunk in a pub, or on prostitutes or gambling. Women, on the other hand, are endowed with a tremendous sense of self-sacrifice and try to get the best out of the money, for their children, but also for their husbands.”
“We certainly see opportunities in Vietnam for talented people to have jobs in the IT sector, including the improvement of the efficiency of the economy and the government.”
“We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.”
“We certainly will have a vote on proceeding to a bill to repeal Obamacare... it was a very large issue in the campaign. And, the reconciliation process does present an opportunity and we're reviewing that to see what's possible through reconciliation.”
“We certainly would be happy for more help, but not at the price of condescension and arrogance. If the Europeans believe they can afford to be less committed in Somalia, please - we can deal with it ourselves.”
“We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.”
“We certainly would resolve the problems of the charities that are working in areas where they can do the most good. So if you consider that the U.S. foreign aid budget is 30 billion, yes, we could make a major contribution to reducing global poverty, start to deal much better with some of the other big environmental problems that the world faces. So I think we could solve a lot of problems.”
“We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.”
“We challenge our kids to be close around the 2:00 mark. If we can do that we can win games.”
“We change and it's uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it's awkward.”
“We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.”
“We change for the good so long as good exists around us.”
Source: Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future
“We change ideas like neckties.”
Source: A short history of decay
“We change into our bathing suits, both of us pale like larvae, and then we walk down to the water.”
“We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.”
“We change our tools and then our tools change us.”
“We change people through conversation, not through censorship.”
Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place, in an otherwise constantly shifting and, let's face it, tiny outcrop in the middle of an infinity of nowhere.”
“We change people, but oftentimes we get so focused on the negative people and their influence on us, we forget how powerful we are as positive people to influence others.”
“We change the Clave,” said Alec. “From inside. We make new Laws. Better ones.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“We change the future with every choice we make,”
Source: Perfect Lies
“We change the world a little each day with our kindness.”
Source: Be A Good Human
“We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a
consequence of what we have become.”
“We change when not changing becomes more uncomfortable than change itself.”
Source: THE PERSONAL POWER PROGRAM: A Woman’s Step-by-Step Guide to Thriving in Self, Body & Money
“We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.”
“We change whether we like it or not.”
“We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.”
“We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.”
Source: A Day at the Beach: Recollections
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”
Source: British Classics: Great Expectations
“We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.”
“We changed our rules. If a player does not have some sot of altercation on or off the court once each month, we fine him...The guys that are our top four scorers, each of them will be required once every two months to appear on MTV. The guys who shoot the worst free throws over a one-month period, next time we have a TV game they're required to look into the camera and beat their chests after they make a good play.”
“We changed the name from Sex Gang Children to Culture Club because Jon Moss, our drummer, went to L.A. on holiday and took some demo tapes with him. -Everyone loved the music but nobody liked the name. I -remember getting a postcard from Jon from L.A. saying, "I don't think America's ready for the Sex Gang Children."”
“We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.”
“We chart delusions through collective agreement.”
Source: The Summer Without Men: A Novel
“We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.”
“We chase dreams and embrace shadows.”
Source: At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque
“We chase gravity of the micro world, but after leaving its world we try to perfect the laws here that do not exist there.”
“We chase life like we chase butterflies to snap a picture. We blink, and the butterfly is gone. Capture the moment today.”
“We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.”
Source: The Aristos
“We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.”