W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We could not be happier.”
“We could not become like God, so God became like us. God showed us how to heal instead of kill, how to mend instead of destroy, how to love instead of hate, how to live instead of long for more. When we nailed God to a tree, God forgave. And when we buried God in the ground. God got up.”
“We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying to do, is again, a tautology, it's true by definition because we were doing, and the state is noble by definition. That's called "extreme liberalism".”
“We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.”
“We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.”
“We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.”
“We could not hold the burdens on our backs, so we left them in order to find our own way, revealing the world to the innocent so that they could bear their own weight.”
Source: Faces to the Sun
“We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.”
Source: Plymouth plantation: selections from the narratives of William Bradford and Edward Winslow
“We could not risk humanity on the continued goodwill of an infant monster that could puppet the dead.”
Source: What Moves the Dead
“We could not swim, but now we are swimming—
We have to swim.
It is not fair. It is never fair.
We have no chance to be part of the decision
That changes us.
We were, and then we are. Regrettably,
We are not alone. If it is one of us,
It is all of us, so many of us.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.”
“We could not talk or talk forever and still find things to not talk about.”
“We could not wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war. I do not want so sound too positive. It would be a catastrophe, but it would not be a final one. We are not powerful enough for that. An asteroid could be that powerful. That is why we need to do our homework.”
“We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.”
“We could, of course, use any notation we want; do not laugh at notations; invent them, they are powerful. In fact,mathematics is, to a large extent, invention of better notations.”
Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1
“We could only choose which path to take to our destination. What happened along the way was entirely up to chance.” - Maisey Williams”
Source: The Lonely Hearts Book Club
“We could only control India through force of arms, but force was useless against a people who didn’t fight back; because you couldn’t kill people like that without killing a part of yourself too.”
Source: Smoke and Ashes
“We could overcome the baser aspects of our nature... and give this planet the kind of caretakers it deserves.”
“We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.”
“We could plan a murder
Or start a religion.”
“We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.”
“We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
“We could probably go in without invisibility glamours,” said Isabelle, craning her neck to look down the street. “Half these people have more tattoos than we do.”
“But none of them are nearly as attractive.” Jace narrowed his eyes as his Farsight rune took effect, following Isabelle’s gaze. Halfway up the line he saw a flash of something bright. Red hair. A girl with bright red hair was standing in line next to a dark-haired boy who was gesturing animatedly. “Well,” he amended. “Almost none of them.”
Source: We Jace you a Clary Xmas
“We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.”
“We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.”
Source: José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work
“We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop.”
“We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases we were admitting, and climate change is really the pollution of the engineering paradigm, when fossil fuels drove industrialism. To now offer that same mindset as a solution is to not take seriously what Einstein said: that you can't solve the problems by using the same mindset that caused them.”
“We could return from sand if we had to--form into a beautiful mosaic of glass that told our story in colors.”
Source: Vex
“We could say politically correct that look doesn't matter, but the look obviously matters.”
“We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings
“We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.”
Source: In Praise Of Love
“We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.”
Source: My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture
“We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.”
Source: On Dialogue
“We could say that Romanian Onirisme was born from painting and not from surrealist literature. The visual is primordial. Dimov said, 'Dreams are not a source, but a canon, a legislative model.'”
“We could say that the human race is a great coauthorship in which we are collaborating with God and nature in the making of ourselves and one another. From this there is no escape. We may collaborate either well or poorly or we may refuse to collaborate, but even to refuse to collaborate is to exert an influence and to affect the quality of the product. This is only a way of saying that by ourselves we have no meaning and no dignity; by ourselves we are outside the human definition, outside our identity.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“We could say the government spend like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors, because the sailors are spending their own money.”
“We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.”
Source: The Uses of Literature
“We could scrub the floor for a tired friend, or dress a wound for a patient in a hospital, or lay the table and wash up for the family; but we shall not do it in martyr spirit or with that worse spirit of self-congratulation, of feeling that we are making ourselves more perfect, more unselfish, more positively kind.
We shall do it just for one thing, that our hands make Christ's hands in our life, that our service may let Christ serve through us, that our patience may bring Christ's patience back to the world.”
Source: The Reed of God
“We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.”
Source: Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions
“We could sit around and talk if you'd like."
"Okay." She crossed her arms and tried to look casual. "So what's up?"
"Considering what you're wearing beneath that sheet, and what we just heard in the hallway, you might want to rephrase that particular statement.”
Source: Get A Clue
“We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.”
“We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to utter madness. I suggest we go to Paris instead.”
“We could spend a lifetime questioning why there is tragedy in the world. Or we could spend a second and send love.”
“we could stay in America
put up with agony and despair
or go back to Bosnia
no one promised it would be fair
how much more suffering am i supposed to take
how many more beatings until i finally awake
if you’re never placed in situations that make you doubt your faith
how will you ever come to know what makes the heart leap and grow”
Source: A Candid Aim
“We could steal time, just for one day
We can be Heroes, for ever and ever
What d'you say?”
“We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.”
“We could sum up thre entire message of this book in the following way; leaders stand for something - vision. Leaders stand on something - values.”
Source: The Power of Character in Leadership: How Values, Morals, Ethics, and Principles Affect Leaders
“We could survive reconn[ditioning]. Everyone did. They didn’t survive unchanged, but they survived.
There was another step when reconn failed. People whispered it sometimes, that pods that proved useless or antisocial or dangerous would be returned to a different, less conscious level of use. Compost”
Source: Firebugs