W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs. We must shrink the federal government and hold it accountable - and to do that, we need a leader who understands how bureaucracies work and how to cut them down to size.”
“We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.”
“We need to ensure we leave the planet in safer hands than ours”
“We need to ensure we're not just taking care of others but also of ourselves. It's about balance - taking time to recharge so that we can keep showing up. If we don't recognize our own limits, if we don't recognize when we need rest, we risk not being there tomorrow to continue making a difference in people's lives.”
“We need to enter into the counselling relationship not as curious and objective observers, but as involved and active participants.”
Source: Idiosyncratic Person-Centred Therapy: From the Personal to the Universal
“We need to enter the conversation willing to be wrong, willing to admit the limits of our own knowledge, willing to reconsider our evidence, sources, and premises. That is self-skepticism.”
Source: Demagoguery and Democracy
“We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.”
“We need to establish platforms for teachers to initiate their own changes and make their own judgments on the frontline, to invest more in the change capacities of local districts and communities, and to pursue prudent rather than profligate approaches to testing.”
“We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.”
“We need to execute people like (John Walker Lindh) in order to physically intimidate liberals.”
Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
“We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.”
“We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.”
“We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.”
“We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.”
“We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.”
Source: Revelations of divine love
“We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.”
“We need to feel all the emotions as they appear without preferring one over the other. When we give preference to one and block out the way for the rest, we create imbalances in our emotions which eventually destroy our joy. When you forcefully stop yourself from hating, hate mounts with time and one day, when it bursts, it takes you by surprise and you end up committing great crimes.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.”
“We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.”
“We need to feel. To slow down and sense what is happening. To grieve and understand what has been lost so that we can begin to assess how to move in a different direction, not simply repeat the behaviors that have led us to this space.”
Source: Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community
“We need to feel trust to be vulnerable and we need to be vulnerable in order to trust.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons”
“We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.”
“We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.”
“We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.”
“We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this -the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you.”
“We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.”
“We need to find a balance between protecting our local economies while pursuing the longer-term goal of producing clean, affordable and reliable power.”
“We need to find a fair and viable solution on the basis of U.N. resolutions and the incompatible with the fact that Cyprus is an E.U. member state.”
“We need to find a new way forward. There are keys ways progressives can speak.”
“We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.”
“We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.”
“We need to find another way to get at them," I said angrily.
"Get at who?" Marco asked suspiciously.
"The French, Marco," I said sarcastically. "Who do you think? The Yeerks, duh."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Marco said. "We tried that, remember? We went down into the Yeerk pool after them and got our butts kicked. Yeerks ten, humans zero."
... "We gave them a reason to be afraid at least."
"Yeah, they're terrified of us. Visser Three probably can't sleep at night, he's so worried about five kids," Marco said sarcastically. "Look, Visser Three doesn't think we're a threat. He thinks we're lunch."
-Animorphs #2, The Visitor page 15”
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.”
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”
“We need to find means for cooperation.”
“We need to find more body parts if possible, and we need divers and evidence
retrieval specialists. You got those, too?”
“Just say the word, and they are yours, like the song goes.”
“What song?”
“The Tom Jones song. ‘Help Yourself.’ Do you guys remember that one?”
“You’re really old, Micah. How old is Tom Jones, anyway? Eighty?”
“I don’t know. So what? Is it illegal to remember Tom Jones?” Micah turned his fist into a microphone, held it up to his mouth, and began to sing and gyrate his lower
torso in a circular manner, his best imitation of Tom Jones in his prime years.
“Now there’s an image that will be impossible to erase from my mind,” Zack said, looking repulsed.”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.”
“We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.”
“We need to find the humility to admit that we are indeed powerless and helpless so we can take the first steps in finding ways to heal. – Dr. Thomas Demaria”
Source: The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes
“We need to find the light within ourselves, so we can see our true worth.”
“We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline.”
“We need to find ways to communicate with each other.”
“We need to find ways to transform the more than 60 million service jobs, which make up 45 percent of U.S. employment, in the same way - rewarding workers financially, encouraging and empowering creative participation, creating professional communities, and so on. We can look to any number of new companies - from Zappos, to Starbucks, to American Apparel - for examples of how this idea might play itself out. We need to do more to make service jobs into higher-paying family-supporting jobs of the future.”
“We need to find you an outlet that’s going to be healthy and sustainable.” I consider these words for a moment. “Like what?” I finally ask, coming up with nothing. “Well, you could write,” the bigfoot therapist suggests. “Something creative is a great way to let that illogical side of you come out and play.” “Knowing my hyperfocus I’d probably just end up writing hundreds of books expressing every corner of my personality in a deeply intricate catalog of feelings,” I offer with a scoff. My therapist doesn’t seem phased.”
Source: Not Pounded By The Physical Manifestation Of Someone Else's Doubt In My Place On The Autism Spectrum Because Denying Someone's Personal Journey And Identity Like That Is Incredibly Rude So No Thanks
“We need to fix our legal immigration system.”
“We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.”
“We need to fly ourselves before someone else tells us how.”