W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.”
Source: The Complete Works of Florence Scovel Shinn
“We must stop pointing to the exceptions—these bright shining stars who transcend circumstance. We must look to how we can best support the least among us, not spend all our time blindly revering and trying to mimic the greatest without demanding systemic change.”
Source: Bad Feminist
“We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.”
“We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.”
“We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.”
“We must stop seeing our Pastors, Reverends, Men of God, as infallible.”
“We must stop seeing the natural world as a commodity and start seeing it as we would see a family member, something to love, protect, care for, and cherish.”
Source: TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country
“We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.”
“We must stop spending money that we just don't have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.”
“We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.”
“We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.”
“We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.”
“We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality.
Somebody else will not fix things.
Somebody else will not make me healthy.
Somebody else will not make me happy.
These things are my responsibility.
Not the neighbor’s,
not the government’s,
not the church or the civic club.”
“We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.”
Source: The Spirit of Pessimism
“We must stop treating homelessness as a crime and start addressing it for what it truly is: a solvable challenge that demands compassion, creativity, and commitment. (Texas HB 1925: Criminalizing Homelessness Is Not the Answer – blog)”
“We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“We must stop trying to change their behaviors by making choices for them and by shielding them from the painful consequences of their actions or inaction. We cannot change them.
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Setting our adult children free to live the lives God intended them to live is not abandonment - even if it means setting them free during a time of severe trial and tribulation in their lives.”
Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
“We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our religious traditions...We must no longer use the Bible as the Pharisees used the Torah when they gave it absolute and final status. Christian biblicism is no different from Jewish legalism. It is the old way of the letter, not the new way of the Spirit.”
“We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.”
“We must stop viewing ourselves as separate and disconnected from the rest of life, as if we are a special case and the laws of nature or karma do not apply to us.”
“We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.”
“We must stress that the basis for our faith is neither experience nor emotion but the truth as God has given it in verbalized, prepositional form in the Scripture and which we first of all apprehend with our minds.”
Source: The new super-spirituality
“We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.”
“We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.”
“We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.”
“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.”
“We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.”
“We must strive to be aware of the forces acting upon our hearts. If we become neglectful, we will stray from our purpose in life”
Source: Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
“We must strive to be like the moon”
“We must strive to become good ancestors.”
“We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
“We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.”
“We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.”
“We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.”
“We must strongly resist reductions in diversity, especially when it happens, either directly or indirectly, because of our own activities.”
Source: Tao of Survival: Spirituality in Social Care and Counselling
“We must struggle for creating a democratic system that is dedicated to democracy and human rights.”
“We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.”
“We must study and reclaim our past so that we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are, and where we are going.
(2009 speech)”
Source: Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords, 1969-1976
“We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.”
Source: The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme
“We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.”
“We must submit ourselves to each other in the fear of God.”
“We must submit to God's righteous rule.”
“We must submit to the righteous God for our redemption.”
“We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to suffer in this life than in the next, since one moment of suffering willingly accepted for the love God, is worth an eternity of happiness.”
“We must substitute courage for caution.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.”
“We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.”
“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.”
“We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words