W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.”
“We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“We need enough food to feed the people, let us plant enough crops.”
“We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!”
“We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.”
“We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future.”
Source: Civil Wars
“We need everyone to participate to make our city safe. And we know that the vast majority of immigrants are contributing positively to our economy and to our society here in the city of New York.”
“We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace.”
Source: The Two Paths
“We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.”
“We need experience to release what matters.”
“We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages.”
“We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.”
“We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.”
“We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.”
“We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.”
“We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.”
“We need feminism because degrading phrases like "walk of shame" are commonplace in our social vocabulary, yet these are only applied to women; whereas men in the same situation are praised by their peers and seen as nothing more than " a guy who got lucky", by the rest of society.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“We need feminist voices today, you know. In my time, we had incredible feminist voices and I'm sure we have it today, too, but in all the massive outlets, maybe the one or two or three voices are somehow disappearing.”
“We need fewer philosophies and more philosophers.”
“We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.”
“We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.”
“We need four things to survive life: bread, water, oxygen, and dreams!”
Source: Why the Silhouette?
“We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves”
“We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.”
“We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing.”
“We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself
and his company-a determination to undertake a personal
program of self-development. Nobody is going to order a man
to develop .... Whether a man lags behind or moves ahead in
his specialty is a matter of his own personal application. This is something which takes time, work, and sacrifice. Nobody can do
it for you.”
“We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.”
“we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“We need goals when the scoreline is zero zero”
“We need God as much in the calm as in the storm.”
“We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.”
“We need God’s great-grace in all spheres of life.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We need god to prosper those without him will not.”
“We need God to provide a heaven. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.”
“We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.”
“We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.”
“We need grandchildren here,” Pete’s mother said to me
when we visited. “You don’t get married just to eat and fart.”
Source: Married to a Devil
“We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.”
“We need groups like the Women's March reminding elected officials that they have a responsibility to create pathways of opportunity, and if - and when - they aren't doing that, everyday people are going to put a little "extra" on their ordinary and extraordinary things will happen. At this moment, the not-so-quiet voices rumbling across the country and the world are saying we absolutely and unequivocally deserve better.”
“We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.”
“We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.”
“We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It's a horrifying one-two punch.”
“We need help from above if we are to make progress in our journeys.”
Source: The Seven Paths: Changing One's Way of Walking in the World
“We need help, the poet reckoned.”
Source: Gunslinger
“We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.”
“We need heroes of color in all different genres. It's also valuable for white readers to be able to meet people in books that are different than themselves. That can be a way of expanding their minds and experiences.”
“We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“We need hope ; to act, to live without hope goes beyond our strength. But we do not need more, and we must not be given more. We do not need certainty.”
Source: Open Society and Its Enemies: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx and the Aftermath v. 2