W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom.”
“We have been given the greatest gift, life, we ought to live well.”
“We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.”
“We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.”
“We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.”
“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”
“We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business.”
Source: History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town
“We have been having a Ménage à trois with the lies that others told us and the lies we tell ourselves for so long that we have convinced ourselves that it is normalcy. When we begin to read, hear or even see truth our minds reject it and our minds’ eye closes to what we view as temptation; as if we would be cheating on our trio so instead we cheat ourselves out of knowledge and growth.”
Source: I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy
“We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.”
“We have been here before,
staring at the slow slide of a stick,
waiting, waiting, waiting…
Two lines,
like the beginning and ending
of a chapter of our lives…
All the year’s fortune changes
in the end, as new life evolves.”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“We have been here before,
staring at the slow slide of a stick,
waiting, waiting, waiting…
Year after year,
there was no room for us in the inn,
no shepherds, no angels, no prophecies,
no hope, no coming.
But this time, two lines herald the Eve of a birth
Two lines,
like the beginning and ending
of a chapter of our lives.
Handel could not compose
something so beautiful.
Gabriel could not bring better news.
All the year’s fortune changes
in the end, as new life evolves.”
Source: Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings
“We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.”
“We have been in contact with our customers, we've been actively talking to them. Our customers are important to us, so we decided to compensate appliance repairs.”
“We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.”
“We have been in the process of reprogramming men and the way they are raised for a long time.”
“We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.”
“We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.”
“We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.”
“We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.”
Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931
“We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's like they just got a pair of new jeans..They just started wearing them below their belt 2 months ago.”
“We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.”
“We have been led to identify ourselves with our destructive side - and that which we have become identified, we overvalue and empower. This has been happening for many generations, reinforcing this harmful image of ourselves.”
Source: The Time of the Black Jaguar: An Offering of Indigenous Wisdom for the Continuity of Life on Earth
“We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.”
Source: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
“We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.”
“We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.”
“We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.”
“We have been living and reliving George Orwell’s Animal Farm allegory since the beginning of civilization. We have played out the win-lose, conquer or be conquered scenario, and now most people understand that this approach to winning is not sustainable, meaningful or fun.”
Source: DreamMakers: Innovating for the Greater Good
“We have been living through a time of sorrow. Our seed remains seed. Our nostrils are dusty.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros
“We have been made to feel less than worthy, a lot of the time made to feel worthless and do you know why; because we listened. We listened to what other people had to say about us, but we forgot to listen to the person that truly matters; ourself.”
“We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.”
“We have been making constant efforts, all the time, to start dialogue with the SLORC, but you know it takes two. We don't want a monologue. We would like a substantive political dialogue among the SLORC, political leaders including myself, and leaders of ethnic groups-exactly as stipulated in the U.N. General Assembly resolution on Burma.”
“We have been meandering around the archipelago since Sunday. Yeah, Sunday. That's when we left Longyearbyen.'
Nora made a face as if to say she knew all this. Sunday seems for ever away.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.”
“We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.”
“We have been more than one year
without him, and just now
we are starting to see things again.”
Source: Flower Grand First
“We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.”
“We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.”
“We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.”
Source: Perfect Match
“We have been poisoned by fairy tales.”
“We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!”
“We have been programmed to fear what we don’t understand, and we don’t understand the truth of ourselves.”
Source: Spirituality, Evolution and Awakened Consciousness : Getting Real About Soul Maturity and Spiritual Growth
“We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.”
“We have been psychologically and biologically conditioned to accept this life of constant struggle. This is borne of ignorance that the one who struggles and suffers is only a construct, a belief that there is an individual self apart from consciousness.”
Source: Consciousness: The Potentiality of All Existence: Exploring reality and belief as a subjective experience
“We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.”
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our desires keeps them suspect and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance. The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined.”
Source: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. For the demands of our released expectations lead us inevitably into actions which will help bring our lives into accordance with our needs, our knowledge, our desires. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for or accept many facets of our oppression as women.”
Source: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“We have been redeemed from darkness to the light. So we must live as people of light!”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.”
Source: Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God
“We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.”