W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not formally rewarded, while being poor at what you do is seldom corrected nor penalized.”
“We have included the routing numbers of all the banks as well as other information about the banks in our website. Along with the routing number of the bank, we have also provided other information related to the bank (transaction, deposit, withdrawal, chequebook, passbook, loan). This is free and a very useful website for all of you guys.”
“We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.”
“We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.”
“We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans have never been off Earth. We have always been on a piece of Earth in space. We survive only as long as we can breathe the air of Earth, drink its waters, and be nourished by its foods. There is no indication that as humans we will ever live anywhere else in the universe. Place, too, is continuously being transformed but only within its own possibilities.”
Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
“We have indeed, felt the effects of the epic journey that has been our life. We have covered a lot of ground, parenting, marriage, career, family and otherwise, and at times, surely, have felt the worse for the wear, especially when different circumstances have chewed us up and spit us out! When it felt as if the kiln was stoked to maximum heat levels, and that we would shatter into a billion pieces that would never all be found! There are some differences now, having a little more seasoning to us. First of all, now we understand there is no such thing as being finished. There is always more firing, refining and glazing we can experience, and it is only a matter of when and how, not if we will do so. Secondly, we look forward to it, knowing now it would take more heat than possible to break us beyond repair.”
“We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)
“We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.”
“We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.”
“We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.”
“We have inherited a tradition which has associated religion and politics in a way that has excluded some of our fellow citizens … When we become legislators, though, as we do when we vote in referendums, we legislate for all our fellow citizens. We do not vote as members of this or that church or faith. Of course we cannot leave our religiously based moral convictions outside the polling station, but we do need to remember the difference between civil and religious law.
We also need to remember that it is possible to have deep and passionately held convictions without seeking to have those convictions imposed by the state on fellow citizens who do not share them and may have opposite convictions which are equally deep and passionately held.”
“We have inherited from our ancestors a great facility to learn when to be afraid. Indeed, one experience is often sufficient to establish a long term aversion and fear.”
“We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.”
“We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.”
“We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.”
Source: The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition
“We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.”
“We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.”
“We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis.”
“We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.”
“We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.”
“We have introduced equity into our life, including a uniform educational system. We have also introduced a Bill of Rights, which is not just a piece of paper, but a living document because we have created structures that are totally independent of the government and that can overrule the government, even the president.”
“We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.”
“we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.”
Source: The Mandelbaum Gate
“We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!”
“We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.”
“We have issued financial instruments in the past, and there is a strong demand for them, it is simply unnecessary now.”
“We have it all. We have great diversity of people, we have a wonderful land, and we have great possibilities. So all those things combined there's nowhere else I'd rather be.”
“We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts.”
Source: Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body
“We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.”
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
“We have it in us to be splendid.”
“We have, it seems, a few people who think Jarret may be just what the country needs—apart from his religious nonsense. The thing is, you can’t separate Jarret from the “religious nonsense.” You take Jarret and you get beatings, burnings, tarrings and featherings. They’re a package. And there may be even nastier things in that package. Jarret’s supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret’s talk of making America great again. He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. We could wind up in a war. Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.”
Source: Parable of the Talents
“We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.”
“We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own”
“We have journals in social studies, too. The school must have gotten a good price on journals.”
Source: Speak
“We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are, with something called time seemingly precious, but not deeply appreciated.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“We have just decided we have to have everything for free. And I think we're starting to pay for it in terms of our mental states.”
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”
Source: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
“We have just had the most amazing time. Every now and then, we'll come across a review where the person didn't like it and we're like, "What? Really? How could you not like it?" All of us like it so much, and we have such a great time at work. We've just been really blessed, and we're all standing here going, "Wait a minute, how did this happen?" It's been awesome.”
“We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.”
“We have just witnessed a classic example of what I like to call 'misdirected rage'. I believe the technical term is being an ass.”
“We have Kenjii. We have my cell phone. Since we aren't officially dating, I'm sure you'll agree that's all the protection we need.”
Source: Darkness Rising Trilogy, 3-book bundle: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising
“We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.”
“We have kept ourselves in the dark, hidden from the light, but it is only a matter of time that a new season begins again.”
Source: Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity
“We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.”
Source: The Will Rogers book
“We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.”
Source: Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss
“We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.”
“We have known and have testified that God is unfailing. Worry no more, because when His word says in, "John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free". He will fulfill it in His own way, no doubt, we'll be set free on that day.”
“We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way”
Source: Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume