W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.”
“We dont think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but well not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.”
“We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want.”
“We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.”
“We don‘t have faith that #freedom works. We have evidence.”
“We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.”
“We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short on explication, but its stories suggest that introversion plays yin to the yang of extroversion; that the medium is not always the message; and that people followed Moses because his words were thoughtful, not because he spoke them well.”
Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
“We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.”
“We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.”
Source: Makers
“We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.”
“We don’t come out of the womb filled with prejudice, racism, and homophobia. Kids are taught to hate, so we have to protect our young people’s minds from those evils.”
“We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.”
Source: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.”
“We don’t discover humility by thinking less of ourselves; we discover humility by thinking less about ourselves.”
“We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.”
“We don’t do what we do for the glory or the fame or the credit; we do it for the quiet satisfaction of making the world a better place, saving the lives of innocents, and being better than you are.”
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
“We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That is the greatness of the holy scriptures. They are that way because they were created by holy prophets who experienced the truth. Each time we read these works we elevate ourselves to see a little more. (81)”
Source: Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies - and were important to the production of that object whether it’s our food or our clothes or our I-pads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.”
“We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best.”
“We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved”
“We don’t have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon.” “You’ve got a magician named Mel?”
Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
“We don’t have the plumbing to take care of what needs to be taken care of.”
“We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.”
Source: Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)
“We don’t have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He’s for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.”
“We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.”
“We don’t have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf. ... I’m a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can’t force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.”
“We don’t have to do this. I can fight Coyote. We have the ability to defeat him.” – Sundown “Are you out of your effing mind? Hello? Where have you been for the last two days? I want whatever screwed-up glasses you’re looking through. ’Cause from where I’ve been standing, we’ve been getting our asses seriously kicked around the block. Up a few stairs and down again.” – Sasha”
“We don’t have to talk about Zsadist. That’s okay. He’s the most interesting part of me.”
“We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.”
Source: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
“We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.”
“We don’t know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don’t know what to do with our own weakness except hide it or pretend it doesn’t exist. So how can we welcome fully the weakness of another if we haven’t welcomed our own weakness?”
“We don’t know what we’re capable of until we have to survive. Each of us is stronger than we know - the key is learning to tap that power at will.”
“We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.”
Source: Brian's Hunt
“We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are”
“We don’t need a cure,” the other zombie said. “That’s right,” Scapegrace nodded. “We’re happy the way we are.” “Happy with the power,” Scapegrace clarified. “Very happy, just the two of us, and there’s nothing wrong with us either. It’s very natural in fact. Nothing to be ashamed of—” “Thrasher,” said Scapegrace, “shut up.”
“We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.”
“We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.”
“We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.”
“We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.”
Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
“We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.”
“We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence”
Source: Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing
“We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”
Source: The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”
“We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.”
“We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.”
“We don’t use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.”
“We don’t want civilians walking around who know about us. Got it? (Tee) Wow, you’re like a ferocious bunny, aren’t you? (Nathan) Worse. A bunny can be fluffy sometimes. Tee always goes for the throat. Trust me. I’m her partner and she’s shot me three times now. (Joe)”
Source: Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - A B.A.D. Collection: Phantom in the Night, Whispered Lies, Silent Truth and an excerpt from Alterant
“We don’t want to become old, rich and useless”
“We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.”
Source: For This Child I Prayed