W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We have the power to decide on our own who we will be. Therefore, we will make mistakes.
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We have the power to decide on our own who we will be. There, we can also recover from mistakes.”
Source: How Do You Live?
“We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.”
“We have the power to determine the future of banking, politics, and society.”
“We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.”
“We have the power to imagine better.”
Source: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?”
“We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning.”
“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.”
“We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.”
“We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.”
“We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.”
“We have the pure nature of the mind.”
“We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it, and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.”
“We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.”
“We have the resources (to end hunger), we know what has to be done, and it's something that can be achieved at a rather modest cost”
“We have the resources the world needs. We can build a path for them to get there. That's that delicate balance that we find.”
“We have the resources to allow everybody to live with dignity,; we have the technology to do it; what we don't have is yet another excuse!”
Source: New Age Spirit
“We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.”
“We have the responsibility to put our gifts to work.”
“We have the reverse of the Puritan work ethic in America now. No one ever becomes a star by plugging along year after year. What is needed is flair, talent, 'an eye,' contacts, charisma, and, most of all, naturalness.”
Source: Style and substance: a comedy of manners
“We have the right and the responsibility to be intolerant of those things which should not be tolerated.”
“We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”
“We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a great risk; but the risk may become so great that we cannot allow ourselves the luxury.”
“We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.”
“We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty that they have had collusion with men whose interests were in conflict with the interests of the public, they shall, at least, be required to bring positive facts with which to prove there has not been such collusion; and they ought themselves to have been the first to demand such an investigation." -Teddy Roosevelt”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
“We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.”
“We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.”
“We have the right to make our own bad decisions and live with the consequences.”
“We have the right to our own bodies.”
“We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.”
“We have the right to refuse. This is our right, yours and mine. You can't know all the laws by heart, you don't know what will happen if you refuse. But you have to try.”
Source: Riot Days
“We have the right to refuse. This is our right, yours and mine. You can't know all the laws by heart, you don't know what will happen if you refuse. But you have to try... The law can be bent, and the degree of flexibility is something you can only test in practice.”
Source: Riot Days
“We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures.”
“We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.”
“We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.”
Source: Adventures in the Dream Trade
“We have the riots we deserve.”
Source: Polemics
“We have the same dirt under our shoes as they do.”
Source: Outrun the Moon
“We have the same genetic code for all living creatures. We have a large number of genes that are manifestly the same, but with detail differences - they look like different drafts of the same book. In extreme cases, like a human and a beetroot, it's like the difference between Matthew and Luke's Gospel - clearly they tell the same story, but with different words. Whereas with a human and a chimp, it's like two different printings of Matthew, with a few typos in one.”
“we have the same kind of stardust in our souls”
“We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.”
“We have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody's looking for something and we are it. We don't have to look anywhere--it's right there within ourselves.”
“We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.”
Source: Letters and Other Writings of James Madison
“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”
“We have the smallest excuse for love, you know that?”
Source: Royals
“We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.”
“We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still”
Source: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
“We have the State Department working together with Google, MTV, MSNBC, Facebook, all of these - all of these giant corporations. Google now has two executives that we know of that were charged to help this revolution.”
“We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.”
“We have the strength to roar like lions. What intimidates narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths the most is when we confidently speak our minds. Embracing our voice and standing up for ourselves allows us to be our best selves. No one has the power to take that away from us, and there is no need to reinvent ourselves to adjust to any circumstances. It’s enough to be yourself.”
“We have the talent, just not the money and not the audience. People in France don't really like fantasy. You need to go to Spain, England and Germany for that. Many of the people from my crew come either from Spain or England. But I hope to be able to work with them again and I wish to create European cinema on that scale. It could happen and attitudes may be changing. Animated fantasy movie Despicable Me was made entirely in France, so there is the talent here and now maybe the desire too.”