W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look.”
Source: Where You Left Me
“We may be human, but we're still animals.”
“We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.”
“We may be in different circumstances but one thing's for sure, "in Jesus we find rest." Pray and let Him. He is always Faithful and True.”
“We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.”
“We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.”
Source: A Pluralistic Universe
“We may be inclined to consume a poor diet without giving any thought – simply because it is what we have been doing in the past. Break the cycle.”
“We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.”
“We may be learning different things a lot of the time, but we are learning them together.”
Source: Together
“We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.”
“We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?”
Source: Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
“We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.”
“We may be living past and future lives at the same time we are living this one.”
“We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.”
“We may be lost stars in an ocean of constellations on a dark night but do remember we both belong to the same sky. I breathe the same air that you breathe, we both look at the same luminosity above us. You are the music and I am the lyrics.”
“We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.”
Source: The Aeneid
“We may be near or far away but nothing matters to us. You and I are soulmates!”
“We may be partial, but Fate is not.”
Source: Essays, lectures and orations
“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!”
Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...
“We may be poor, but at least we've always been honest."
Something broke inside Han, and when he opened his mouth the words came spilling out. "We're”
Source: The Demon King
“We may be powerless to fight injustice, but this doesn’t mean we have to stay silent about oppression. One act of courage can change the course of history.”
“We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments.”
“We may be reaching the end of the era in which individual movies meant something to people. In the new era, movies may just mean a barrage of images.”
“We may be reaching the end of the liberal world order.”
“We may be rivals, Lavinia. But it doesn't make me want to fuck your brains out any less.”
Source: Always Practice Safe Hex
“We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.”
“We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.”
Source: The Priory of the Orange Tree
“We may be smaller, we may be small in number, we may have a lot less money, but there are a growing number of people who are sick and tired of the campaigns to destroy decent people, such as George Bush, Sarah Palin, Clarence Thomas, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh.”
“We may be so content with telling ourselves that there is no time for reading, exercise, or meditation. Stop that nonsense.”
“We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.”
Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
“We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus inside of us. That's a possibility. Maybe we're part flu.”
“We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.”
“We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.”
Source: Spiritual Progress
“We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.”
“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.”
“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, "But how could they have thought that?" - lies where we have never suspected it... None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.”
Source: On the Incarnation
“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”
“We may be surrounded by some greater reality, to which we are oblivious. And even if we could somehow perceive it in some entirely new way, it is extremely doubtful we would be able to comprehend what we perceived.”
Source: The Cardturner
“We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession and use of firearms, that profound and almost instinctive tradition of Americans. Luckily for us, our tradition of bearing arms has not gone from the country, the tradition is so deep and so dear to us that it is one of the most treasured parts of the Bill of Rights - the right of all Americans to bear arms, with the implication that they will know how to use them.”
Source: Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team
“We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.”
“We may be the only ones who think that braving a series of crumbling death traps is proof of good decision making.”
Source: Unearthed
“We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.”
“We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.”
“We may be together for another six months -a year- there's no knowing. At the end we're certain to be apart. Do you realise how utterly alone we shall be? When once they get hold of us there will be nothing, literally nothing, that either of us can do for the other.”
Source: 1984
“We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.”
Source: Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 1. Addresses on various occasions
“We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.”
“We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.”
Source: A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America
“We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.”
Source: Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart
“We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.”
Source: Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology