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 very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition
“We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.”
Source: The Normal Christian Life
“We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.”
“We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.”
“We may be young, but our resolve is forged in the fires of courage. We will not stand idly by while you ravage our home.”
Source: Arya and the Guardians of Azhira
“We may become so entangled in our web of pressures and expectations that we may forget the role we play in dictating how we feel on any given day.”
“We may become so fearful of failure that we opt to avoid our goals altogether as an insurance that failure will never be encountered.”
“We may become the first species to spread beyond the limits of the Earth and colonize other planets.”
Source: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
“We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.”
Source: Poems of Early and After Years
“We may belong to different races
and have different colours.
We may speak different languages and follow different religions.
We may have different perceptions
and live in different realities.
But we all live in one world and
belong to a single humanity.”
“We may bend sometimes, but we don't break. There's a lot of character in that room”
“We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.”
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“We may bury our soul's truth, but we can never really escape it.”
Source: Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2
“We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it.”
“We may call painting the grandchild of nature.”
“We may carry out mistakes that readily affect family or friends. Acknowledge and apologize.”
“We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.”
“We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.”
Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
“We may claim to judge someone by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin, But our brains as hell note the color, real fast.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.”
“We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.”
“We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.”
“We may compare this mad, deluded world to a company of poor, blind men, dancing about the brink of a very dangerous pit, but do not perceive it or see how each falls in one after another.”
“We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.”
“We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.”
Source: Historical Tracts
“We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation of man; must reject appearances, which may be false, though specious; and must search for those rules, which are, on the whole, most useful and beneficial.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
“We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.”
Source: The Voyage of the Beagle: the Evolution
“We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.”
“We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.”
Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph
“We may consider something wrong due to our lack of knowledge, but in the face of overwhelming evidence only an animal refuses to change their outlook and persists with their delusions.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“We may continue to expect the enjoyment of all the blessings of civil and religious liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution. The citizens of Illinois have done themselves honor, in throwing the mantle of the Constitution over a persecuted and afflicted people.”
“We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.”
Source: Vivekananda Reader
“We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own”
“We may convince ourselves that something is true, but that doesn’t make it true.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“We may dabble into unnecessary endeavors, walk through obscure roads and pursue many meaningless dreams but in the long run, destiny pulls us in its direction.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.”
Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell
“We may define therapy as a search for value.”
“We may deny the truth of our childhoods while we are living them, but we one day realize the truth of our parents as readily as we do that of Santa. Neither are as perfect as our memories would have them…”
Source: A Creature Was Stirring
“We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.”
“We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.”
“We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods.”
“We may disagree on some things, but we can do so without being disagreeable.”
“We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.”
“We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.”
Source: Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers
“We may divide characters into flat and round.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.”
“We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.”
“We may each be good at certain things but all of us are a bunch of dum-dums in most things.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine