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 "come into" this world, we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves", as the universe "peoples". Every individual is an expression of the realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin.”
“We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.”
“We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.”
“We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.”
Source: The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays
“We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.”
Source: Les Misérables
“We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.”
“We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”
Source: The Division of Labor in Society
“We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.”
“We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.”
“We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.”
“We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”
“We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.”
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour.”
Source: Pensées
“We do not control ourselves, especially when
we still carry the human body. Very little is in our control...”
“We do not control the trade of our resources, which are an important factor of prosperity for the dominant nations.”
“We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.”
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“We do not create happiness without integrating our passion into our work life.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.”
“We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.”
Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know
“We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.”
“We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.”
Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2002: Presented to Glenn Marcus Murcutt
“We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.”
Source: The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion
“We do not dance to reach a certain point on the floor, but simply to dance.”
“We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
deeper meanings.”
“We do not deliver poison or funeral pie directly to a woman's door during an initial contact." Celia sounded pretty sure about that.
Gram rushed to clarify. "But we do give ideas on what a woman can do if she can't escape."
"So, poison." The way they danced around the poison question, taking it off the table then adding it back in again, switched my senses to high alert.
Gram shrugged. "Some men deserve a horrible end."
"It certainly sounds that way," Jackson mumbled under his breath.
I wanted to shout with pride about their ingenuity. I couldn't, of course, this would have to be a family secret.”
Source: The Usual Family Mayhem
“We do not demand perfection in logic or absence of subjective thinking from any writer. We read about other people’s lives not because they possess the innate infallibility of judgment. We read other people’s life stories to understand the history of their peculiarities and partialities.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.”
“We do not depend on sight because sight leads us to countless impossibilities. We depend on God by Faith because He leads us to endless possibilities.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.”
“We do not depend upon sight because sight leads us to countless impossibilities. We depend on God by faith because He leads us to endless possibilities.”
Source: The Essence of Faith: Daily Inspirational Quotes
“We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.”
“We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.”
“We do not deserve a better culture than the one we have; every culture is perfectly suited to the music it produces, the churches it builds, and the poems it writes. We cannot lament our inability to build a fitting sequel to St. Peter’s Basilica without simultaneously lamenting our complete lack of a theology that might compel us to do so.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.”
“We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.”
“We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.”
“We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express love for each other day in and day out.”
“We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.”
“we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.”
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
“We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.”
Source: Table talk
“We do not die with those we mourn.”
“We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their achievements -- but still recognize that there is not a higher good than motherhood and fatherhood in marriage. There is no superior career, and no amount of money, authority or public acclaim can exceed the ultimate rewards of family.”
“We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.”
Source: The Half Brother
“We do not discard something we know to be true because of something we do not yet understand.”
“We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.”
Source: A house and its head
“We do not dispute what is magical or irrational when it flatters our self-esteem.”