W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.”
“We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.”
“We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.”
Source: The Ox-Bow Incident
“We desire not only that we get something, but that we be pleased when we get it.”
Source: Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life
“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.”
“We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to the finish before going ahead with our construction. If you are afraid of war day in day out, what will you do if war eventually comes? First, I said that the East Wind is prevailing over the West Wind and war will not break out, and now I have added these explanations about the situation in case war should break out. Both possibilities have thus been taken into account.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“We desire to give the Soviet people absolute liberty of voting for those they desire to elect, those whom they trust to ensure their interests.”
“We desire to make this day a long one, since we can't have your master with us long.”
Source: A Japanese Blossom
“We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.”
Source: Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
“We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.”
“We desire truth and find in ourselves nothing but uncertainty.
We seek happiness and find only wretchedness and death.
We are incapable of not desiring truth and happiness and incapable of either certainty or happiness.
We have been left with this desire as much as a punishment as to make us feel how far we have fallen.”
Source: Pensées
“We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.”
Source: Pensees: Thoughts on Religion
“We despair of changing the habits of men, still we would alter institutions, the habits of millions of men.”
Source: Canadian Stories
“We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.”
Source: Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.
“We desperately need in this country a discussion of American policy toward Russia. We can't keep saying an untruth, that this new Cold War is solely the fault of Putin. We need to rethink our policy toward Russia.”
“We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it no longer controls us and makes the present the slave of the past.”
“We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.”
“We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into being after the 2nd World War, and they're now failing us ever more catastropically. Wild Law shows just how radical we now need to be in creating new institutions that are genuinely 'fit for purpose' in the 21st Century.”
“We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.”
“We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.”
“We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate our redemption. God's love, grace, and mercy shine all the brighter against the awful reality of evil. Indeed, the very existence of evil is a powerful proof of God's existence and holiness.”
“We desperately want to find ourselves, but we don't have time to sit and meditate in peace when work is always calling us.”
“We desperately want to know the true meaning and purpose of our existence, but we can’t unless we strip ourselves bare of all the things that have deceived us from the purest essence of our soul.”
Source: Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness
“We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.”
Source: Following the Equator:
“We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.”
“We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“We destroy icons - that's what we do.”
“We destroy in assumptions
But we do not build in possibilities”
“We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard.”
Source: 365 Prescriptions for the Soul: Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love
“We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.”
“We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions”
Source: Sever
“We destroyed their habitat. And now, we must rebuild it. We can".”
Source: Hamir: The Fallen Prince of Ranthambore
“We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.”
“We determine our Destination by our priorities.”
“We determine our own price; it is always good to set our price to infinity so that no one can buy us!”
“We determine the destiny of our nation”
“We determine who we are during all acts of survival. Self-identity is an ongoing process of self-exploration and development of strength of character. Human pain is unavoidable. A person finds their immaculate core floating amongst the rubble of ruined dreams and imploded fantasies. With strength of mind and time tested character, a prudent person begins recasting a person’s quixotic outlook upon life into mature philosophy that will gird them against all the heartaches and tragedies of an earthly life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We Deveauxs preferred to talk you to death, rather than face you in physical combat.”
Source: The Name of the Star
“We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.”
“We develop more empathy, when we realise that we are all ultimately looking for the same things - love, peace and acceptance.”
“We develop new confidence in problem solving, decision making, creativity, and communication when we expand our comfort zones”
Source: LinguaVerse: A Journey through Language Realms
“We develop our architecture through metaphor. In the distant past we looked to those places we recognised and experienced in nature for ideas – the shelter of a cave, the shade of a tree, the original refuge of the womb, our own proud vertical stance and point of view, the communal circle we make with our friends in a forest clearing… – and sought to emulate them in our architecture.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die”
“We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.”
Source: First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There
“We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.”
“We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.”
Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy
“We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for television.”