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 write because so many of our stories are not being heard. Where could they be heard in this era of fear and media monopolies? Writing allows us to transform what has happened to us and to fight back against what's hurting us. While not everyone is an author, everyone is a writer and I think that the process of writing is deeply spiritual and liberatory.”
“We need tolerant men. We must all give in a little.”
“We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own experience.”
Source: Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition
“We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.”
“We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality,
violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.”
“We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.”
Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan
“We need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world. No other nation can do that the way we can, and it's going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.”
“We need trust among allies and partners. Such trust now has to be built anew.”
“We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.”
“We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.”
Source: Eccentric Spaces
“We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”
“We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university”
“We need useless theory more than ever today.”
“We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]”
“We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.”
“We need voices that help us critique our social, political, and economic views through Kingdom lenses. The women and men who compose the global body of Christ can help challenge us in very important ways.”
“We need way more intimacy than nearly anyone considers normal. Always hungry for it, we seek solace and sustenance in the closest available substitutes: television, shopping, pornography, conspicuous consumption - anything to ease the hurt, to feel connected, or to project an image by which we might be seen and known, or at least see and know ourselves.”
“We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.”
“We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.”
“We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.”
“We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner
“We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“We need willingness to consider different mission in Iraq.”
“We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.”
Source: Strengthen My Spirit
“We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things!”
“We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.”
“We need women friends, women who challenge us.”
“We need women friends, women who challenge us... I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.”
“We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.”
“We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.”
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”
“We need words from heaven. Too many words come from the human heart and not from heaven. God wants prophets who will bring words from heaven that will change things on earth.”
“We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.”
“We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")”
“We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.”
Source: Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
“We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.”
“We need you."
"I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.”
Source: Reached
“We need you" means my sisters love me, they rely on me, they admire me.”
Source: Family of Liars
“We need you to come home.”
Source: Sweet One
“We need you to go out there and cover for us while we search for whoever's bugging us," Amy said. "Whoever it is, he or she is probably nearby."
"All you have to do is keep talking. We've thought a lot about this, and we think you have the necessary skills," Dan said.
"Very funny, Dan-o. But true. When it comes to nonstop chat, I'm the champ," Nellie agreed.
Nellie turned off the shower and they all returned to the main room.
"That pool is so fine," she said, as if she'd never been interrupted. "I met this couple from Scotland, and I was all, whoa, you have some delish smoked salmon in your excellent country...."
Amy raised the window carefully, not making a sound. She and Dan quietly climbed out.
"--and they were all, 'Aye, lassie, we dew, ye ken our bonny fish, ye dew!'" Nellie said in a terrible Scottish accent. "So I said, 'You know what ye lads and lassies need in Scotland? Bagels! To go with!' 'Whoa,' they said, 'lassie, ye canna be serious, that is one orrrig-in-al guid idea....'"
"Okay, you can stop now."
"Man, that's guid news," Nellie said. "This lassie is about to pass out.”
Source: Beyond the Grave
“We need you to help us figure out how you can help us.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“We need you, too, Lucian.”
“We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.”
“We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.”
“We need your voice. We need your very unique way of making things.”
Source: We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around and Make Something
“We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”
Source: Soft City: Picador Classic
“We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.”
“We need, from time to time, to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there are probably some who actually believe, if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything is going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.”
“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves...”
“We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.”