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 do good works to get into heaven; we do good works because heaven has gotten to us.”
“We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.”
“We do not doubt to assert, that air does not serve for the motion of the lungs, but rather to communicate something to the blood ... It is very likely that it is the fine nitrous particles, with which the air abounds, that are communicated to the blood through the lungs.”
“We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with one accord from all sides the evolution of the world of organisms, we cannot assume that the process stopped short of Man. But it follows also that the factors which brought about the development of Man from his Simian ancestry must be the same as those which have brought about the whole of evolution.”
“We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.”
“We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.”
Source: A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
“We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, "There is a time coming when all things shall be found out." I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.”
Source: Electromagnetic Theory
“We do not earn or deserve the love of God; we already have it.”
“We do not easily trust those that we do not properly love. Do I really love God that much? Do I love Him enough to trust Him?”
Source: The Heart That Heals: Healing Our Brokenness Through the Promises of God
“We do not eat our..." I paused. Friends was the wrong word. So was allies. And there were certainly some acquaintances that I would not stop Isanara from taking a bite out of.”
“We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.”
Source: The Love of Devotion
“We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.”
Source: Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
“We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.”
“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”
“We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.”
“We do not exist for ourselves.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“We do not exist through ourselves alone but through the environment that shaped us.”
Source: My Life and My Films
“We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.”
“We do not experience ourselves as a gift until we are engaged in the act of creating.”
Source: Eighth Day of Creation
“We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way.”
Source: The Sunfood Diet Success System
“we do not explain my husband's insane abuse
and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.”
Source: Selected poems
“We do not face a choice between protecting our environment or protecting our economy. We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment - or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc.”
“We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.”
“We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption; we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We do not fail until we are trying. We fail once we give up.”
Source: Quantraz
“We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.”
“We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.”
“We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of psyche
“We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones.”
Source: John Brown's Body
“We do not fight to tear down but to build up.”
Source: Girls with Swords: How to Carry Your Cross Like a Hero
“We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach us — and this is remarkable — the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.”
“We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“We do not find truth groveling through error.”
“We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.”
Source: Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief
“We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.”
“We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.”
Source: Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use
“We do not force things on people. That's not how we want things to eventuate. That's not how we want things to happen. We have what we consider to be, anyway, a respect for our form of government, a constitutional republic. We believe in it. We want legitimate mandates. We win an election, we want it to be because the genuine majority of people who share our beliefs. We don't think we accomplish anything by forcing something on people. But that's not the way the left looks at this at all. They can only get what they want by forcing it on people.”
“We do not forget to eat: we do not forget to take the shop shutters down: we do not forget to be diligent in business: we do not forget to go to our beds to rest: but we often do forget to wrestle with God in prayer, and to spend, as we ought to spend, long periods in consecrated fellowship with our Father and our God.”
“We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.”
Source: This Business of Living
“We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain," said Matthew. "It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.”
Source: Chain of Gold
“We do not get to Heaven alone.”
Source: Waldmeer
“We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.”
“We do not give prizes for rhetoric to the best goodbye. To thank each other for a wonderful time; to separate with a smile, or tears; to part with a final kiss or a final word - no one knows what to do.”
Source: Lovely War
“We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections-why give up on the church?”
“We do not glorify anything else by deeming it worthy enough of our fear. The only One worthy of our fear is God.”
“We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.”