W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
“We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.”
“We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.”
“We have really no absent friends.”
Source: The Death Of The Heart
“We have really, really good-looking men who work for our network, and that's never brought into question. Our men dress very well, and look fantastic in a suit, and not once is that ever talked about. I can be called out on the Internet or in newspapers for asking a question, but if a male asked the same question, it would never be a topic.”
“We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.”
Source: Letters of Asa Gray
“We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.”
“We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.”
“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”
“We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.”
“We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.”
“We have received a communication from Jean le Flambeur. He claims that in precisely 57 minutes, he is going to steal a ring of Saturn.”
“We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.”
“We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.”
“We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.”
“We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals.”
“We have receptors in our brain as you well know and when you ingest marijuana, I believe that it essentially gives you a reboot.”
“We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.”
“We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past.”
“We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.”
“We have reduced carbon to an errant element, the culprit in a civilization bent on self-termination...Carbon is a window into the entirety of life, with all its beauty, secrets, and complexity.”
Source: Carbon: The Book of Life
“We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.”
“We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.”
“We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.”
“We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?”
“We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.”
“We have relationships with many different things, creatures and beings. We have relationships with cats, with dogs, with horses, and we know that there are certain things they can't do. So we'll add robots to that list, and we'll learn what they can and cannot do. No harm, no foul.”
“We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.”
“We have relinquished and abandoned and left behind and forgotten what we believed we had to relinquish, abandon and leave behind and ultimately forget; we have let ourselves go and we have gone away and we have gone under, but we have relinquished nothing and abandoned nothing and left behind nothing and forgotten nothing; we have in reality extinguished nothing whatsoever, because our parents did not inform us of or enlighten us about the fact that our life-process is in reality nothing but a process of illness. We were up above, in the company of our parents, locked up in our walls and in our rooms and in our books and papers and everything around us and in us was nothing but lethal and we are down below, without our parents, again locked up in these walls and in our rooms and in our books and papers and everything around us and in us is nothing but lethal.”
“We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.”
Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.”
Source: First Principles
“We have replaced feelings with facts. Facts cannot hurt. They are not funny, or lovable ... They just are. They are safe”
Source: The Kid Who Came From Space
“We have researchers involved with the show [Spartacus] and they pointed me in a pretty great direction, in terms of what to read, and what to look at or look for, and they also provided me with some material.”
“We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.”
“We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law.”
“We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.”
“We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.”
Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.”
Source: Income Tax: Root of All Evil
“We have returned to Italy because we cannot live in England. Small-minded, smug, self-righteous, unjust, a country that hates the stranger, whether that stranger be a foreigner or an atheist, or a poet, or a thinker, or a radical, or a woman. For women are strange to men.”
Source: Frankissstein: A Love Story
“We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.”
“We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.”
Source: The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
“We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.”
“We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.”
“We have romanticized needing another human, when I believe the most romantic thing is not needing someone but wanting them around anyway.”
Source: The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them
“We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.”
Source: Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914
“We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States.”
“We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!”
Source: The foes of our own household; The great adventure; Letters to his children
“We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.”
“We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“We have rule of lawyers, not rule of law. The legal profession has a monopoly over one branch of government as it was never intended to. The American Bar Association owns an entire branch of our government. We should not be surprised that we are the most litigious society in the world. It is big business with a stranglehold on one of the three branches of government.”