W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.”
“We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That led me to think about ways of developing further the Aschenbach-Mahler connection.”
“We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.”
“We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.”
Source: The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
“We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.”
“We know that if al Queda or one of these terrorist organizations were to get a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq, that they would have no hesitation about using it to catastrophic consequences; the potential is for hundreds of thousands of casualties.”
“We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.”
“We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.”
“We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.”
Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy
“We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.”
“We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.”
“We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells.”
“We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.”
“We know that in some way, incomprehensible to us, his suffering satisfied the demands of justice, ransomed penitent souls from the pains and penalties of sin, and made mercy available to those who believe in his holy name.”
“We know that in the attempt to be freed of the enemy without, we can be tempted to feed the enemy within. To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.”
“We know that inevitably the millennials will get old and tired again, and then there will be the bilennials or trilennials, or whatever the next generation is, and we're all going to end up on our lawn shaking our fists in a bathrobe yelling at the moon.”
“We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment.”
Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.”
“We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“We know that it’s God who saves people, and it’s the Holy Spirit who convicts people of sin. Our job is to partner with God, so the question is what is our role in the partnership? Jesus tells us it is making disciples, teaching them to observe all he has commanded.”
Source: The Way to Discipleship: Thinking Well About the Kingdom of God
“We know that it's hard enough being a teenager. It's particularly hard being a teenager who's coming out.”
“We know that kids who grow up in an environment of warmth and support will thrive and function in whatever environment they find themselves. What we need to do is to do more to help poor kids have such an environment.”
“We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces.”
“We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.”
“We know that letting our children eat too many sweets makes us a bad parent, hence the pointless ritual at Halloween when parents allow their children to go from house to house accumulating a big haul of treats, only to confiscate them at the end of the night, because they don’t want their child to get cavities. Yes despite their anxiety about sweets, parents will happily feed their children highly sweetened sports bars, fruit snacks and cereals which are sweets in all but name.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“We know that love and desire can play havoc with our lives, but we are human and complicated.”
Source: Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth
“We know that love and peace are the way to a better world. We know that getting along with one another, celebrating our common humanity, appreciating our differences, that's what will move us forward, especially in these troubling times.”
Source: The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action
“We know that man's a fighting animal by nature, that cruelty's his birthright; and we also know that what keeps us in the pit as animals are the armies and armaments.”
Source: Three Go Back
“We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents.”
“We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.”
“We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.”
Source: Lessons in Living
“We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of science are mathematics and logic; the mathematical set puts out the logical eye, the logical set puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it sees better with one eye than with two. Note that De Morgan, himself, only had sight with only one eye.”
“We know that measurements of a quantum system seem to collapse the wavefunction. We most certainly don’t know how, or why, or indeed if that actually happens.”
Source: Beyond Weird
“We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.”
“We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.”
“We know that mental illness is not something that happens to other people. It touches us all. Why then is mental illness met with so much misunderstanding and fear?”
“We know that more than seventy to eighty percent of women masturbate, and ninety percent of men masturbate, and the rest lie.”
“We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan”
“We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the concept of jihad and verses that ISIS now uses to justify beheadings come from. A young man just told me that he went back and read this carefully [and saw] the prophet and his people were fighting the Quraysh because they were not allowing the prophet and his people to practice their religion.”
“We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.”
“We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.”
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.”
“We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.”
“We know that now. Vehicles of transportation include, according to the scholar of memory studies Marianne Hirsch, "narratives, actions and symptoms." The stories we tell and don't tell, the actions we take and don't take, the symptoms expressed by a mother holding the trauma tightly to herself, because she refused to burden her children with it.”
Source: In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
“We know that Obama wasn't vetted through the campaign, and now, you know, some things are coming home to roost, if you will, which is inexperience, his associations, and that ultimately harms our republic when a candidate isn't-isn't vetted by the media, that cornerstone of our democracy.”
“We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.”
“We know that our bodies suffer from overwork and lack of leisure: anxiety, mental-health issues - we're not designed to work more than about 40 hours a week. Our systems wear out and the quality of the work suffers. After 50 hours, it crashes and burns.”
“We know that our cells are speaking to each other.”
“We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind."”