W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings.”
“We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.”
“We must be as pure as our music.”
“we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.”
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it cannot be attributed to our want of capacity to fill them, but to that violence with which the Men support their unjust intrusion into our places.
(...) If then we set custom and prejudice aside, where wou'd the oddity be to see us dictating sciences from a university chair; since to name but one of a thousand, that foreign young lady, whose extraordinary merit and capacity but a few years ago forced a university in Italy to break through the rules of partiality, custom, and prejudice, in her favour, to confer on her a DOCTOR'S DEGREE, is a living proof that we are as capable, as any of the Men, of the highest eminences in the sphere of learning, if we had justice done us.”
Source: Woman Not Inferior to Man
“We must be authors of the history of our age.”
“We must be aware of the amount of time invested in idle activities, as such endeavors do not serve to provide any path toward self-improvement.”
“We must be aware that momentum born of old habits and destructive behaviors might be momentum, but it’s momentum slammed into reverse.”
“We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.”
“We must be born with an intuition of mortality.”
Source: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.”
“We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.”
“We must be bound to one another then," Elric murmured despairingly. "Bound by hell-forged chains and fate-haunted circumstance. Well, then—let it be thus so—and men will have cause to tremble and flee when they hear the names of Elric of Melinbone and Stormbringer, his sword. We are two of a kind—produced by an age which has deserted us. Let us give this age cause to hate us!”
Source: Elric: The Stealer of Souls
“We must be brave and strong like nature. It, fights every day against everyone, especially humanity.”
“We must be brief when traitors brave the field.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.”
Source: Complete Works
“We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender.”
“We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.
“We must be careful more than ever what we let our hearts believe in.”
“We must be careful not to become our own worst enemy when given the chance or opportunity to do better or to be good. Because of the power we hold, we should ensure we don’t end up doing what is wrong or what we wouldn’t want done to us.”
“We must be careful not to choose, but to let God's Holy Spirit manage our lives; not to smooth down and explain away, but to stir up the gift and allow God's Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God's mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.”
Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Power of God: Walking in God's Anointing Every Day of the Year
“We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.”
“We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.”
“We must be careful not to judge - extremely careful! It is so terrible that it is beyond words! "Judge not, that ye be not judged." Have we kept this? Even if we have no virtue but we don't judge, Christ will save us and take us to Paradise.”
Source: Daily Quotes from "Words of the Heart" by Gerondissa Makrina Vassopoulou
“We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast”
“We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.”
“We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.”
“We must be careful that we don't resent the very things that help us put on the divine nature.”
“We must be careful to avoid spiritual elitism. Everything we are and anything we possess as believers in Christ is a gift of grace. Pure hearts before God must be cleansed from any hint of spiritual pride.”
Source: Paul: 90 Days on His Journey of Faith
“We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.”
“We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Life
“We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.”
Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
“We must be careful when we fall on the sword lest we cut the wrong person.”
“We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.”
Source: The hungering dark
“We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…”
Source: The Spell of Summer
“We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.”
“We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?”
“We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.”
“We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.”
“We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.”
“We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.”
“We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.”
“We must be clear that people's bodies are not the cause of our social maladies. [...] Our disconnection, trauma, lack of resources, lack of compassion, fear, greed, and ego are the sources of our contributions to human suffering not our bodies. We can accept humans and their bodies without understanding "why" they love, think, move, or look the way they do. Contrary to common opinion, freeing ourselves from the need to understand everything can bring about a tremendous amount of peace.”
Source: The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
[About describing atomic models in the language of classical physics:]”
“We must be clear: the rule of law, the dignity of persons, and the ethic of respect are not optional in a democracy. Protest, yes. Accountability, yes. But cruelty, never.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral ambiguity.”
“We must be Cognizant of the fact that without the demanded skill set of the digital age, the digital skills gap will be inevitable, consequently leading to the digital divide.”
“We must be compassionate but not enable people to blame or shame us out of God’s blessings.”
Source: Shark Proof: How to Deal with Difficult People
“We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar
“We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: