W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We need an Age of Philosophers, of Enlightenment, an Age of Reason and Intellect, of Logic and Ontological Mathematics. Only then will we have the launchpad that can make Gods of us, and bring to fruition a Star Trek world where we travel through the galaxies to the heavens themselves. There’s nothing in the dreary, nihilistic, atheistic vision of scientific sophistry peddled by the likes of Sam Harris that could ever transform the human race. Humanity needs the right experts to lead it, not the wrong ones: not the charlatans, gurus and glory hunters.”
Source: The Sam Harris Delusion
“We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.”
Source: Fire
“We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.”
“We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.”
“We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons”
“We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.”
“We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.”
“We need an effective American diplomacy that will marshall the resources of nations in the Asian Pacific Rim to put pressure on North Korea, on Kim Jong-un, to abandon his nuclear ambitions. It has to remain the policy of the United States of America, the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, plain and simple.”
“We need an employer verification system that works so that we can hold employers accountable.”
“We need an enduring, robust theory of education. Now, it seems education careens from one fad to another and often back again. I think that with better education and students willing to put in the 10,000-hours to become expert, we could develop better science professionals, even theoretical physicists.”
“We need an enemy to give people hope. Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards: those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and the bastards always talk about the purity of the race. National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same. Hatred has to be cultivated as a civic passion. The enemy is the friend of the people. You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the primordial passion. It is love that’s abnormal.”
“We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.”
“We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.”
“We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.”
“We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year.”
“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.”
“We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.”
“We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.”
“We need an international solution to the challenge of climate change, there's no question about it. But the real key is, can you actually get that - or get that solution - without the US' involvement? Can you not lead domestically, and expect the rest of the world will take action... the US needs to lead, we need to be out there.”
“We need an investigation, because we don't know what Donald Trump owes Russia. We don't know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.”
“We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.”
“We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.”
“We need an uprising to guarantee that the bullies with unchecked and unlimited power and money do not continue getting away with abusing employees in most workplaces. We need a #MeToo movement for bullied and silenced American employees!”
“We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!”
“We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.”
Source: Ranting Again
“We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.”
“We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.”
“We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.”
“we need artists to keep sharing... artists are the hopecore”
“We need ask more questions.”
“We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we’ll ever have …the earth and nature.”
“We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side”
“We need banking. I mean, right now, there are so many places in America where the banks are not doing what they need to do because they're scared of regulations, they're scared of the other shoe dropping, they're just plain scared,so credit is not flowing the way it needs to to restart economic growth.”
“We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.”
“We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.”
Source: OLIVER TWIST (Illustrated Edition): Including
“We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.”
“We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.”
“We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.”
“We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“We need better police training.”
“We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.”
“We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.”
“We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.”
Source: De Bono's Thinking Course
“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”
Source: Compared to What?: An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms
“We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.”
Source: Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit
“We need bridges, not walls.”
“We need but little learning to live happily.”
“We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us.”
Source: The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats: A Journey Into the Feline Heart
“We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need occasionally to be away from our friends, our relatives, from the members of our immediate households. Such changes are good for us; they are good for them. We appreciate them better, they us, when we are away from them for a period, or they us.”
Source: Thoughts I Met on the Highway
“We need children to learn 'from' nature - not just 'about' it”