W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own."”
“We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.”
“We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us.”
Source: Sermons: On the Lessons, the Gospel, Or the Epistle for Every Sunday in the Year, and for Week-day Festivals, Preached in the Parish Church of Hodnet, Salop
“We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.”
“We deny our weaknesses because we refuse to take responsibility for failures.”
“We deny ourselves the smallest comfort or pleasure; even if it only costs a few dollars. This is not prosperous spending. Prosperity says you can have red bell peppers instead of green, rib eyes instead of sirloin, and romaine instead of iceberg. It's not about spending everything you make, but enjoying what you do spend without felling guilty about it ... The positive feelings and emotions that prosperous spending brings is what attracts more positive things in your life.”
“We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.”
Source: Nods and Becks
“We deny the fact that people get into or remain in our lives mainly for selfish reasons mainly for a selfish reason, namely, to protect our cherished belief that we are special.”
“We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.”
Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
“We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.”
Source: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
“We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.”
“We depend for so much on those we love that of course we want them to have desirable personal qualities and to believe that we do too. But if we pin our love for another, and theirs for us, based on personal qualities, it confers an unacceptable conditionality and substitutability on love: we don't want to be exchanged for a better model of whatever our lovers deem to be desirable, so there is a strong tendency to want: to be loved for no reason at all, simply be loved.”
“We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This was one group where liberals didn't ask why there wasn't a more pleasing gender balance, because the Upper West Side is not fireproof. What happens in combat in some distant field is abstract to liberals, but they can understand the need to have strong, brave men in their fire department.”
“We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.”
“We depend on our description of the world for everything we perceive. As a result, nothing new can be allowed to threaten that description; we hold onto it with all our might. So, what happens when we encounter new events and new people, and we form new memories?”
Source: Hoodwinked: Uncovering Our Fundamental Superstitions
“We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.”
Source: The Architecture of Happiness
“We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character... We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.”
“We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused”
“We depend on the Supreme Court to uphold the integrity of our government.”
“We depend on this give-and-take when living abroad. You can’t exile yourself from your homeland and not always feel that tidal pull of return. Those minor details, the commercial jingles and pop songs, the chain restaurants and decade-defining shades of our blue jeans, are details you don’t even think about until you are face-to-face with a society that has very little to do with your own. Suddenly those one-hit wonders become a secret language, the very vestige of American culture.”
Source: The Confusion of Languages
“We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.”
Source: The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change
“We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.”
“We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.”
“We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.”
“We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.”
“We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.”
Source: A Celebration of Dogs
“We derive our vitality from our store of madness.”
“We descended from the chariot and walked across the volcanic Island in the Cyclades group of Greek islands.A fear did wake me like the active Santorini.I felt,anytime my mind outbreaks with the real passion of words. But I maintained my mind with a silent revenge,which was active,secretly in my
inward cavity.”
Source: The Bell Ringing Woman: A Blue Bell of Inspiration
“We describe [Paper Girls] as Stand By Me meets Terminator.It's a story about nostalgia and childhood, but with an action-packed, sci-fi bent.”
“We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.”
“We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.”
“We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go.”
Source: Chain Reaction
“We deserve elections we can trust.”
“We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.”
“We deserve love partners who make us fall on the floor, all because we're weak at the knees, laughing our stomachs off with delight.”
“We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.”
Source: What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace
“We deserve quality lives with equality.”
“We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.”
“We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.”
“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
Source: In the Dream House
“We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.”
“We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half.”
“We design brand, digital experience & marketing campaigns that engage the right customers.”
“We design our lives through the power of choices.”
“We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.”
“We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.”
“We designers have been working to stimulate people's souls and minds.”