W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We need hope, or else we cannot endure.”
Source: A Court of Thorns and Roses
“We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.”
“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
“We need human security: food, education, health care for our children.”
“We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.”
“We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.”
“We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.”
“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
“We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.”
“We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.”
“We need industrious people in the education sector. The job is beyond the four walls of a classroom. Teaching itself is an empire. In it is the job of a healer, a doctor, a businessman, a researcher, a visionary, an accountant, an auditor, a leader, a manager, a designer...the list is so long, it scares the typical teacher.”
“We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.”
“We need Jesus every moment of every day. To say anything else is ludicrous.”
“We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus.”
“We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”
“We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.”
“We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.”
“We need kids to remind us of how incredible this world is. People are increasingly losing their childhoods too soon, and that's a danger. There's a prophesy somewhere that at a certain point in history, children will be gray. It's weird to think about, but it's possible.”
“We need knew knights, but without swords.”
Source: The Sun Watches the Sun
“We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.”
“We need laughter. We need joy. As parents, we need to facilitate that or so much of regular life will simply steal it from us. Make a point to find things that are funny and laugh at them. Find ways to laugh at yourselves when things don’t go exactly as you planned. Watch a funny movie or read a funny story or tell a stupid dad joke, but find a way to bring laughter into your home as often as you can. Even in the hard times, laughter is good medicine.”
Source: Dirt Grenades and Other Explosive Parenting Moments
“We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.”
“We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.”
Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.”
“We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.”
“We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.”
“We need leaders, we ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe that we ourselves can extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every, man woman and child on this planet. And we need the humility to recognize that we cannot do it alone.”
“We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.”
“We need leadership, and we need it now.”
“We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.”
“We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.”
“We need less perfect but more free films.”
Source: Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971
“We need less posturing and more genuine charisma. Charisma was originally a religious term, meaning "of the spirit" or "inspired." It's about letting God's light shine through us. It's about a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects. To let go, to just love, is not to fade into the wallpaper. Quite the contrary, it's when we truly become bright. We're letting our own light shine.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress... but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on us, more crying to God to arise and scatter his enemies and make himself known.”
“We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.”
“We need lots of tech, run by lots of different kinds of people and organizations, and we need to make it as close to costless as possible to switch from one to the other.”
Source: The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
“We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.”
“We need major investments for rebuilding the infrastructure of America in a very forward-looking way that reduces our dependence on foreign oil. It is a commitment to innovation, to science, to keep America number one and competitive and grow our manufacturing base.”
“We need many more intrepid women who set out to expand both their and our concepts of the world. We need them in writing just as we need them in politics. We need that sense of adventure, of reaching wider, delving deeper, pushing further afield, whether that field be geographical, intellectual, political, personal, or all of these and more. Enough with decorousness. Let us risk preconceptions and treasured philosophies, bodies and souls. Let us be big and bawdy and full of courage. Let's go.”
“We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.”
“We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.”
“We need materials to live, but if we think of materials to be life itself, then that's it - we are dead already - so is all possibility of sustainability - so is all possibility of health, harmony and humanity.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.”
“We need men and women with Christian values who know in their souls that America was providentially created and that for the last 200-plus years, when we've gone to God in prayer and asked for guidance, wisdom and strength, God has answered.”
“We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.”
Source: Day by Day
“We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“We need merely understand that the evolutionary process is neither random nor determined but creative. It follows the general pattern of all creativity. While there is no way of fully understanding the origin moment of the universe we can appreciate the direction of evolution in its larger arc of development as moving from lesser to great complexity in structure and from lesser to greater modes of consciousness. We can also understand the governing principles of evolution in terms of its three movements toward differentiation, inner spontaneity, and comprehensive bonding.”
“We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.”