W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We must follow our heart, but when we least expect it, it no longer belongs to us”
Source: Yggdrasil - Profecia do Sangue
“We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.”
“We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.”
“We must follow the ways of the Lord, and take heed to our own ways, lest they lead us into sin. One can take heed if one is not hasty in speaking. The law says: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God' (Dt. 6:4). It said not: 'Speak,' but 'Hear.' Eve fell because she said to the man what she had not heard from the Lord her God. The first word from God says to you: Hear!”
Source: The Sacred Writings of St. Ambrose
“We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.”
“We must follow, not force Providence.”
“We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.”
“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.”
“We must forever face forward.”
“We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music.
We must look up to God, as the young ones of a tortoise look up to their mother.
As a fountain rises upwards, even so must one's spirit rise to God.
One should entertain no idea whatsoever, except that of God.”
“We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.”
Source: Oblivion
“We must forget our past because our past was a life according to the thoughts of people and not God”
“We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.”
Source: The Exemplary Life of the Pious Lady Guion
“We must forget the past because in Jesus Christ, all things have become new”
“We must forget what they said if it causes us to forget who we are.”
“We must forgive as we would be forgiven. To forgive does not simply mean to arrive at a place of indifference to those who do personal injury to us; it means far more than this. To forgive is to give for--to give some actual, definite good in return for evil given. One may say: "I have not a personal enemy in the world." And yet if, under any circumstances, any kind of "serves-him-right" thought springs up within you over anything that any of God’s children may do or suffer, you have not yet learned how to forgive.”
Source: Lessons in Truth
“We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.”
“We must forgive our enemies.”
Source: General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous
“We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.”
Source: General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous
“We must forgive when it is hardest, and when it’s hardest is the most important time to forgive.”
Source: The Specific Gravity of the Soul
“We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.”
“We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard that the Arabs feel their neutrality and nationalism are threatened ... while at the same time trying to hasten the inevitable Arab acceptance of the permanence of Israel ... We must ... seek a permanent settlement among Arabs and Israelis based not on an armed truce but on mutual self-interest.”
“We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999
“We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“We must free ordinary Americans from the constant surveillance and manipulation of the tech giants.”
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
“We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.”
“We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“We must fundamentally restructure our student loan program. It makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages.”
“We must generate courage equal to the size of the difficulties we face.”
“We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.”
“We must get away from the traditional idea that the saints in Heaven have one eternal holiday; that they have nothing to occupy them save playing a harp and incessantly singing.”
“We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.”
“We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.”
“We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.”
“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.”
“We must get Florida back on the right track by increasing education standards and expectations, by pushing for increased performance, and by raising our children's knowledge of the powerful principles that made this nation great.”
“We must get home! How could we stray like this?
So far from home, we know not where it is,
Only in some fair, apple-blossomy place
Of children's faces--and the mother's face
We dimly dream it, till the vision clears”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley
“We must get out of materialism.”
Source: Is Vedanta The Future Religion?
“We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist”
“We must get over wanting to be needed.”
“We must get rid of all the guns.”
“We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.”
Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings
“We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.”
“We must get rid of the IRS. It's a bureaucracy fraught with totalitarianism.”
“We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.”
“We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.”
“We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.”
Source: So Send I You / Workmen Of God: Recognizing and Answering God's Call to Service
“We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.”
“We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.”