W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We don't invest in financial literacy in a meaningful way. We should be teaching elementary school children how to balance a checkbook, how to do basic accounting, why it's important to pay your bills on time. First, education. Begin the learning process as early as possible, in elementary school. Second, encourage and support entrepreneurism. Third, policy. I know it's a priority of the US Treasury to augment financial inclusion and increase financial literacy.”
“We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.”
“We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
“We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.”
“We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.”
Source: Choices: Taking Control of Your Life and Making It Matter
“We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.”
Source: If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For
“We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.”
“We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.”
“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
“We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.”
“We don't know all the reasons that propel us on a spiritual journey, but somehow our life compels us to go.”
Source: After The Ecstasy, The Laundry
“We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.”
“We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.”
“We don't know for a fact that Donald Trump did. We only think we know because it's been reported by how many unconfirmed, anonymous sources? Two scoops of ice cream, Trump's so selfish, guests only get one. The contrast is stark. Trump on this trip and the Trump in Washington. My contention is that Trump is Trump. What's different is the reporting.”
“We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.”
“We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.”
“We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.”
Source: The Fire in the Equations
“We don't know how many people are watching The Grand Tour's - it's a closely guarded secret, we don't even know - the only thing we can do is make a program that we enjoy. And then hope that we're not so unusual that other people won't share our taste.”
“We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.”
“We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.”
“We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?”
“We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.”
Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.”
“We don't know if we're dancing on the show until a couple of days before the show starts, let alone who their partners are before they meet them.”
“We don't know love like we should. We always talk about 'I have unconditional love' unconditional love is... we don't even know it. Because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them. You're not interesting to talk to anymore, goodbye. But that real love, that love that sometimes is difficult, difficult to have. That's that love. And that's a confidence builder.”
“We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.”
“We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air or water with fusion energy - we are kidding ourselves.”
“We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.”
“We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.”
“We don't know our own story.”
“We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!”
“We don't know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don't know something called colonialism and political parties.”
“We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.”
“We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.”
Source: Dreamcatcher: A Novel
“We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.”
Source: How Should a Person Be?: A Novel from Life
“We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.”
“We don't know the power that's within our own bodies”
“We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a different civilisation, and the first one in the whole of our history that would truly deserve the title of being a civilisation.”
“We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?”
“We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.”
“We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to be. We don't know what our interest rates are going to be. We don't know what our energy costs are going to be. All these uncertainties are being driven by the Government's agenda. What we really need to do is get Government to step back.”
“We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.”
Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age
“We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?”
“We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility. There's distortion, and it's hurting our society. And as a result of that, there will be forces that, one way or another, are going to naturally bring that into equilibrium.”
“We don't know what we think until we see what we say.”
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
“We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers”
“We don't know what will happen tomorrow, but one thing is guaranteed-God's overarching care for His children. We can be sure enough of that. In a world where nothing is sure, He is sure.”
“We don't know what's causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.”
“We don't know what's going to happen this summer or who's going to be here next year. We have no control over any of that. So, we're going to play our [22 remaining] games and do the best we can and show up for the New York Knick fans. That's the most important thing.”