W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.”
“We do not become happy. We stop being unhappy.”
“We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.”
“We do not become who we are through sudden decisions, but through what we repeatedly observe, accept, and carry.”
“We do not become. We simply are.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.”
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.”
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.”
“We do not believe in government through the voting booth. The Spanish national will was never freely expressed through the ballot box. Spain has no foolish dreams.”
“We do not believe in order to be regenerated; we must be regenerated in order that we might believe.”
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
“We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.”
“We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.”
“We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.”
Source: The child in the family
“We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.”
“We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.”
“We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.”
“WE DO NOT BELIEVE
that learning to master violence encourages unnecessary violence”
Source: Divergent Series Complete Box Set
“We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in”
“we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.”
Source: A Lady of Quality
“We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.”
“We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future.”
Source: Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.”
“We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful.”
“We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.”
“We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.”
“We do not brag about ancestors that were not great”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements.”
“We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision”
“We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.”
“We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.”
Source: The Joyful Wisdom
“We do not care much if others are sick, if nature is sick as long as it doesn't directly affects us. Coronavirus is just a wake up call to return to our loving self. And killing each other and animals isn't loving, neither noble. Be a Hero, step out of this vicious cycle, show love&compassion, Be Veg.”
Source: Hearty Land: A tale about a journey into a land of abundance
“We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.”
Source: The Kingdom of Christ: Or, Hints Respecting the Principles, Constitution, and Ordinances of the Catholic Church
“We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.”
“We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.”
“We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.”
“We do not choose as captain of a ship the most highly born of those aboard.”
Source: Pensées
“We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.”
Source: The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment
“We do not choose love. It claims each man as it will.”
“We do not choose our fate, we can only choose if we accept it. Fate will take us where it will, whether we will it or not.” (Sister Mira)”
Source: Fates
“We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.”
“We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.”
Source: All Life is Problem Solving
“We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.”
Source: Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.”
“We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.”
“We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents, or the country of our birth.
We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death.
But within this realm of choicelessnness, we do choose how we live.”
“We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is what we DO, Or REFUSE TO DO. WE DECIDE and WE CHOOSE--and so we give definition to our lives.”
“We do not collide with our destiny all of a sudden.”
Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion