W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We must support all Artists, Poets, Writers, Musicians, Singers, Dancers. They make life beautiful and memorable.”
“We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.”
“We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.”
“We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.”
“We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.”
Source: James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“We must surely appear to the world as exactly what we are: a nation that organizes its economy around consuming twice as much oil as it produces, and around the profligate wastefulness of the wars and campaigns required to defend such consumption. In recent years we have defined our national interest largely in terms of the oil fields and pipelines we need to procure fuel.”
Source: Small Wonder
“We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.”
“We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.”
Source: Humbly Submitting to Change - The Wilderness Experience
“We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.”
“We must take advantage of those moments of wonder--
those moments that stir up the creative juices,
that foster belief and faith--
to re-imagine what is possible
in ourselves,
in our lives,
in our world.
And then we must make use
of all that beautiful renewed energy,
all that hope and determination--
to move,
to effect change.”
“We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts”
“We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence
“We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.”
Source: Letters to Friend and Foe
“we must take care of our families wherever we find them.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.”
“We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.”
“We must take care to feed the minds, hearts, and spirits of those coming up behind us--to offer songs, poems, and stories that will break open that which is hardened, expose that which is evil-minded or would harm, and remind us how we are constructed to bring forth beauty of thought and beingness.”
Source: Catching the Light
“We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.”
“We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Life of Washington
“We must take our chances. It is better to act than inaction.”
“We must take our eyes off ourselves and place them on Jesus, knowing that in spite of our flaws and weaknesses, our life is complete in Him.”
Source: Seventh Day
“We must take our friends as they are.”
Source: Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795
“We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.”
“We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.”
“We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.”
“We must take responsibility for educating ourselves. Being part of a 'smart mob' doesn't guarantee that you're a responsible participant or collaborator.”
“We must take responsibility for our own actions, but we cannot take responsibility for the actions, either good or bad, of others.”
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
“We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.”
“We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.”
“We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge.”
Source: The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary
“We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.”
Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
“We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”
“We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!”
“We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“We must take the profit out of prejudice.”
“We must take the profit out of war.”
Source: War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading
“We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.”
“We must take the time to slow down and consider our actions more thoughtfully.”
“We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.”
“We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”
“We must teach more by example than by word.”
“We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.”
“We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.”
“We must teach our children that the real measure of their success in life is how much they'd be worth if they had absolutely nothing.”
“We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.”
“We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.”
“We must teach our people the principle of trust”
“We must teach our people to exalt righteousness and uprightness as a national modus operandi”
“We must teach our people to reject gain from extortion, bribery, unrighteous grafts as something utterly abhorring.”