W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.”
“We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.”
“We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.”
“We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction”
“We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.”
“We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.”
“We must rip the foundations out from under all the bastions of human reasoning that say, "I don't need God!" We must demolish every non-God story of life. We must pulverize every God-is-not-good life narrative.”
“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”
“We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.”
“We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there
is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories,
the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that
the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we've made up,
are the truth.”
“We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, not only life and property, but also private views and preferences in the interests of the common welfare.”
Source: Germany and the Next War
“We must row in whatever boat we find ourselves in.”
“We must rush to the aid of the helpless - we must rush to the aid of the discriminated - we must rush to the aid of the segregated - we must rush to the aid of the alienated.”
Source: See No Gender
“We must sacrifice something in order to make the world better.”
“We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.”
“We must satisfy our customers.”
“We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993
“We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of obligation, thereby cheating those important to us of the purest expression of our love. We must say "no" to treating ourselves, our health, our needs as not as important as someone else's. We must say “no.”
“We must say nothing, when we have nothing to say.”
“We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.”
Source: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
“We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.”
Source: Select Works
“We must scrunch or be scrunched.”
Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].
“We must search the scriptures, accepting them as the mind and will and voice of the Lord and the very power of God unto salvation.”
“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold
“We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor.”
“We must see others all as valid people to be people ourselves.”
“We must see our present fight right through to the very end.”
Source: Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison
“We must see ourselves as co-manifestors -- partners in manifestation -- all engaged in the primal act of unfoldment and emergence. Each act of manifestation may be directed toward a specific outcome, but it also contributes to the greater manifestation of the wholeness, love, compassion, and creativity of the primal source from which we all come.”
“We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy, it is actually not. Western culture, now globally dominant, has systematically trained us to think and act as though we are separate individuals, often in competition with each other for scarce resources of one sort or another, primarily money, which has be-come the perceived means to all we want and need in life.”
“We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.”
“We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.”
“We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.”
“We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress.”
“We must see that there is a sublimity and majesty in monotony, when there is not a frequent or rapid variation. This is true throughout all nature. The greater part of the sublimity of the sea depends on its monotony. So also that of desolate moor and mountain scenery; and especially the sublimity of motion.So also there is sublimity in darkness when there is no light.”
Source: On Art and Life
“We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire,
and so we live a mediocre life,
never bringing to consummation
the primary impulse of our heart.”
“We must see the face of the Lord .... There are things that God says to me that I know must take place. It doesn't matter what people say. I have been face to face with some of the most trying moments of men's lives when it meant so much to me if I kept the vision, and if I held fast to that which God had said. A man must be in an immovable condition. The voice of God must mean to him more than what he sees, feels, or what people say.”
“We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.”
“We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past.”
Source: Insegnamenti di Paolo VI.
“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
“We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction.”
“We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings
“We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.”
“We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.”
“We must seek the spirituality of the soul, to find our sacred-path.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“We must seek the truth, not revenge.” -Michelle”
Source: Reveal
“We must seek to be firmly rooted and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
“We must seek to be intellectually inclusive, just as we seek to be culturally inclusive. Ideas come and go - that's what makes a free society so vital.”