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 pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.”
“We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“We do not pray to impress God. but to express ourselves in His presence and experience the power of His omnipresence.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“We do not pray to impress God. but to express ourselves in His presence and to experience the power of His omnipresence.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“We do not prescribe any prayer; we welcome all prayer.”
“We do not progress from error to truth, but from truth to truth”
“We do not project power from bankruptcy court. We're borrowing a million dollars a minute.”
“We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.”
“We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of child neglect. If we could eliminate the vestiges of racism, if we could develop a more powerful agenda for child care, child development, and a more powerful education system, we could prevent a lot of the incapacities which in turn tend to generate structural unemployment.”
“We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.”
Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays
“We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.”
Source: Childhood's Future
“We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.”
“We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets.”
“We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.”
“We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.”
“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”
Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind
“We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.”
Source: Manual of Zen Buddhism
“We do not realize the extent of the energy we are losing until we find where it is seeping from.”
Source: Pageboy
“We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“We do not really care about the witches covens out there. We can see them for what they are and call upon the Lord to deliver us. It is the witches in the churches who are a danger to us because they are trying to steal the spiritual life of Christ that is coming forth in each and every one of us.”
Source: The Truth About Witchcraft
“We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.”
Source: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
“We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment -- and that is not easy ... but it is the only way to learn what it might feel like to be someone else and the only way to start the dialogue.”
Source: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
“We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.”
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one else can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory. I can see that picture of what we were at an earlier stage may not be recognisable and cannot, certainly, be pleasing to contemplate in later life. But we must not repudiate it, for it is a proof that we have really lived, that it is in accordance with the laws of life and of the mind that we have, from the common elements of life, of the life of studios, of artistic groups—assuming one is a painter—extracted something that transcends them.”
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.”
“We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.”
“We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...”
Source: Karma
“We do not recognize the body
Of Emmett Till. We do not know
The boy’s name nor the sound
Of his mother wailing. We have
Never heard a mother wailing.
We do not know the history
Of this nation in ourselves. We
Do not know the history of our-
Selves on this planet because
We do not have to know what
We believe we own.”
Source: The Tradition
“We do not recognize the right of the Palestinian Arabs to rule the country, since Palestine is still undeveloped and awaits its builders.”
“We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.”
Source: As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister
“We do not remember days, Shemei, we remember moments, and the richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
Source: In This Life
“We do not remember days, we remember moments. -Cesare Pavese”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
Source: This Business of Living
“We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.”
“We do not respect people's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons. If my reasons are good enough for believing what I believe, you will helplessly believe what I believe. I will give you my reasons and reasons are contagious. That is what it is to be a rational human being.”
“We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“We do not rise by making other people fall.”
“We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.”
Source: The Leaning Tower and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic
“We do not run government on whims of an individual, our progress is reforms driven, our reforms are policy driven and our policies are people driven.”
“We do not save nature, nature saves us.”
Source: Lost Angel Walkabout: One Traveler's Tales
“We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.”
“We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.”
“We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land as from the elevation of a lone peak, towering above the plain; for each looks through his own mist.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.”
“We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“We do not see God in contemplation - we know Him by love: for his pure love and when we taste the experience of loving God for his own sake alone, we know by experience who and what he is.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation