W Quotes
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“We have always had, remember, small groups of both parties that split off. There were the "blue dog Democrats." There were the "Dixie Democrats." Democrats were never going to, ever again, pull together.”
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
“We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.”
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.”
“We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written.”
“We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.”
Source: Day by Day
“We have always preferred to be operated on by the assistants of famous surgeons who are also always famous medical professors, and not by those surgeons and professors themselves.”
Source: The Voice Imitator
“We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“We have always said actually this isn't about money, it's not about price. This can be an experience. It doesn't have to be about buying something.”
“We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.”
“We have always said there are two ways to resolve Syria, and both will end up with the same result: a Syria without Bashar Assad.”
“We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.”
“We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.”
“We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.”
“We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later.”
“We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines...Why do we call [them] machines? Precisely because, like machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts.”
“We have always understood that the foundations of the family, as an eternal unit, were laid even before this earth was created! Society without basic family life is without foundation and will disintegrate into nothingness.”
“We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing .”
“We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.”
Source: Light, Gesture, and Color
“We have Americans who are voting for someone in whom they have confidence, about whom they have hope, because at after the election 2016 whoever wins is going to have to govern. And when you look at the tenor of this campaign, and when you look at the way people feel about these candidates and how partisan our country is for starters, how does the winner govern? I mean that's the real, real problem.”
“We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism.”
“We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.”
Source: God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life
“We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war.”
“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it's almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern. Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.”
Source: Men Explain Things to Me
“We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.”
“We have an almost equal mix of children with and without disabilities. Thorin wouldn’t be the only child with Down syndrome.”
Ward asked, “How’d you create that ratio? Why would parents when’d their children here if they didn’t have a disability?”
Louise smiled. “Some parents believe diversity of all kinds is important to their children’s development. Also we have numerous siblings here. Parents want their children at the same school.”
Source: Not Always Happy: An Unusual Parenting Journey
“We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.”
“We have an amazing potential to reach our highest potential, to have truly inspiring careers and loving relationships.
Unfortunately, often we walk through our lives asleep, we let our habits rule us, and find it difficult to change our beliefs.”
Source: Mindful Being
“We have an amazing relationship, and always have. She was so warm and welcoming to me - Veep was my first job out of school. Julia's [ Louis-Dreyfus] and my relationship couldn't be more different from Selina and Catherine's.”
“We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice House and Senate. They might pass a national ban. It's already virtually impossible for people in some areas to get an abortion.”
“We have an architect in the audience who designed one of clubhouses at one of the golf courses. It's a beautiful facility. It immediately was put to use. And Donald Trump wouldn't pay what the man needed to be paid.”
“We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.”
“We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.”
“We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to drive photosynthesis. That has been, throughout the history of our species, pretty stable. Until recently.”
“We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.”
“We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.”
“We have an economy that tells us it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet.”
“We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.”
“We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.”
“We have an energy policy - we're transferring our wealth to overseas to a bunch of countries that don't have the same values as us. In some cases, they're using our money to finance terrorism against us.”
“We have an enormous part of the FBI in our counter intelligence division and in our cyber division that focuses on just threat and making sure that we do everything that we can to understand how the bad guys might come at us.”
“We have an enormous support within the Dutch public. One million people voted for my party.If we would've been extreme, we would've got 0.01 per cent of the vote. We got more than 10 per cent of the vote.”
“We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.”
“We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.”
Source: Overload: How to Unplug, Unwind and Free Yourself from the Pressure of Stress
“We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians.”
“We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.”
“We have an even worse situation in Syria, where the United States' allies are actually supporting people who are violently opposed to the United States, who are dangerous, radical Islamist fanatics. I mean, where is the logic of that? When are we going to call the Saudis on the support of intolerant, bigoted, fanatical types of Islam? When are we going to call this ally?”
“We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.”