W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
Source: The Basic Kafka
“We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest.”
“We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.”
“We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.”
“We need the church as urgently as a starving baby needs his mother’s milk.”
“We need the comfort of responsive flesh, of hand on hand, lip on lip. But we read the love poems of previous ages with a kind of wonder.”
“We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.”
“We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don't change anything, don't transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of transformation, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society.”
“We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.”
“We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
“We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.”
“We need the dark to appreciate the light. And the light always returns.”
“We need the discernment of the Holy Spirit to recognize that God’s highest priority is to transform us, not just our circumstances.”
Source: All Will Be Well: Receiving The Keys To Strengthen Your Faith
“We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.”
Source: The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature
“We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.”
“We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.”
“We need the Fallen Legion,” I said without preamble, trying to catch my breath after running after her.
“And I need an evil-proof bubble to put Jules in,” Firen said dryly.
“That’ll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand,” I grumbled.”
Source: Fallen Legion
“We need the help of other people to be born into this world and to leave it.”
“We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.”
“We need the humility to acknowledge that we may not fully understand the net impacts or timing [of AI].”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”
Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: The strenuous life
“We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.”
Source: The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention
“We need the life… We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.”
Source: Danse Macabre
“We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.”
“We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians.”
“We need the poor as much as they need us.”
“We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.”
“We need the private sector's help, because government is not innovating. Technology is running ahead by leaps and bound. The private sector will help, just as I helped after 9/11. But they must be engaged, and they must be asked. I will ask them. I know them.”
“We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.”
“We need the reference points, systems, programs, and patterns—they save us a lot of time and energy every day and during our times of learning when we come to this reality.”
Source: Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
“We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.”
“We need the science to continue. The heat, the storms, the sea level rise, the Arctic melting. These are all real facts that over time will sink in. The question is, will that be two years, or five years or 10 years?”
“We need the sea. We need a place to stand and touch and listen - to feel the pusle of the world as the surf rolls in.”
“We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.”
“We need the silence to speak the right words; we need the lack of ourselves to be present when it matters most.”
“We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.”
“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.”
“We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.”
“We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements.”
“We need the value and the beauty of democracy, and the beauty of pluralism is there's a free exchange of ideas. Nobody is right all the time. I'm not right all the time. I don't agree with anybody all the time, and I don't even agree with myself all the time.”
“We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good.”
“We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.”
“We need the wisdom to accept the fact that this world abounds with issues we cannot solve; and we need to part ways with those people, ideas and things that are a vexation to the soul.”
Source: The Girl on the Trail
“We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation.”
“We need the world to put a price on carbon.”
“We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.”
“We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.”
“We need thinkers in this world of ours, just as we need dreamers, pragmatists, doers, and people who are kind and loving. So many things around us are the result of people who invented, thought hard about what would make life better, thought about what democracy looks like, thought about how we want to live.”
Source: Fragments: Essays and Philosophies
“We need this city to actually live up to its name-The City of Angels. We need to spread our wings. We need to show that we are more than red carpets, we are more than Hollywood, that we are a city ourselves of open arms. We are a city of generosity and compassion.”