W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.”
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
Source: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.”
“We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions of inner space. We need inner space exploration. We need to have access to more capacities in order to be adequate stewards of this most incredible process of transformation in human history.”
“We needed a symbol into which to pour our fear and mistrust of the world, and we have chosen the wolf, and chosen it with passion and commitment.”
Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
“We needed an over-confident Ted, not a defensive Ted, because overconfidence breeds mistakes, and that’s just what we needed our Ted to make in order catch him.”
Source: The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
“We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.”
“We needed nothing
but presence.”
Source: Fire Woman - In the Temple of Desire: A Sacred Journey through Surrender, Pleasure, and Devotion
“We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years”
“We needed something madder. Bigger. Dumber. A jaunt to the main vein.”
Source: SaddleSore: From England to India
“We needed something to nurture, and they needed nurturing. Constant attention made you need it even more. The band never learned to be alone and neither did we. But if they were starved for attention and we were, too, didn't we make a perfect pair?”
Source: Groupies
“We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.”
“We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.”
Source: Just Kids
“We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law.”
“We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.”
“We needed to do "Community Project" to feel comfortable doing our own thing, and then "That's It That's All" was this experiment with camera technology and shooting snowboarding a little differently. "Art of Flight" was that dream of "That's it That's All" realized. Then we didn't want to make an "Art of Flight 2," so we stepped back and tried to take a different approach to create a more multi-faceted film. "The Fourth Phase" has more of a storyline, and it was much more personal for me.”
“We needed to find some options for moving to neutral ground. I was tasked with doing that.”
“We needed to get out of Barataria before all of us became alcohol-dependent.”
Source: Frenchman Street
“We needed to get rid of the belief that we couldn't rest until our work was done. Work is never done.”
Source: The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul
“We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.”
“We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.”
“We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.”
“We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.”
Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition
“We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness, families and other populations like foster youth, who each have distinct needs.”
“We needn't consume everything life throws at us”
Source: CHAKRAVYUH - Through the Eyes of the Young Warrior
“We needn't talk about Tessa if you don't want to, you know." "It's not Tessa." This was true. Will hadn't been thinking of Tessa. He was getting good at not thinking about her, really; all it took was determination and practice.”
“We needs must love the highest when we see it.”
“We neglect mind. We need not consider brain; a duly nourished and duly exercised mind takes care of its physical organ provided that organ also receives its proper material nourishment. But our fault, our exceeding great fault, is that we keep our own minds and the minds of our children shamefully underfed. The mind is a spiritual octopus, reaching out limbs in every direction to draw in enormous rations of that which under the action of the mind itself becomes knowledge. Nothing can stale its infinite variety; the heavens and the earth, the past, the present, and future, things great and things minute, nations and men, the universe, all are within the scope of the human intelligence.”
Source: A Philosophy of Education
“We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.”
“We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.”
“We negotiated the construction of a gas pipeline system along the bottom of the Black Sea to Bulgaria. We signed certain treaties of a technical nature, contracts for laying the gas pipeline. And then Bulgaria created such conditions that the project's implementation became impossible, which was obviously against its own national interests. The former Bulgarian leadership was, in fact, aware of that and acknowledged it. But we trusted them when we were launching that project. We sustained losses amounting to millions, several million dollars. We would not want to get into such situations.”
“We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.”
“We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.”
Source: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs
“We Negroes of America are tired of a world divided superficially on the basis of blood and color, but in reality on the basis of poverty and power—the rich over the poor, no matter what their color. We Negroes of America are tired of a world in which it is possible for any group of people to say to another: "You have no right to happiness, or freedom, or the joy of life." We are tired of a world where forever we work for someone else and the profits are not ours. We are tired of a world where, when we raise our voices against oppression, we are immediately jailed, intimidated, beaten, sometimes lynched. Nicolás GuiIlén has been in prison in Cuba, Jacques Roumain, in Haiti, Angelo Herndon in the United States. Today a letter comes from the great Indian writer, Raj Anand, saying that he cannot be with us here in Paris because the British police in England have taken his passport from him. I say, we darker peoples of the earth are tired of a world in which things like that can happen.”
Source: Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings
“We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.”
Source: Basil: A Story of Modern Life (Unabridged): From the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, Armadale, The Moonstone, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe, The Law and The Lady…
“We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?”
Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes
“We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.”
“We neither of us perform to strangers.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice [The 50 Best Classic Books Ever - # 03]
“We Neuroscientists have come a long way in proving that God is neither a Delusion nor an Almighty Being watching over life on Earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness. I termed this state of attaining God, as 'Absolute Unity Qualia'.”
“We never accept the unaccepted, that which makes us uncomfortable. We love to ignore things till they can no longer be ignored.”
Source: Let The Game Begin
“We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.”
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there’s a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine affection flowing back and forth.”
Source: Kartography: A Lyrical Literary Romance of Fated Love and Secrets in Pakistan
“We never allowed our parents. They're unhappiness I said and we never allowed them their individual individuality before they were shackled to parenthood”.”
Source: The Anthropologists
“We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.”
Source: Dispatches
“We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong.”
“We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another.
Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.”
Source: Little Women
“We never ask candidates to demonstrate their skill. We ask lots of questions about past experience, but simply looking at the results of their decisions does not let us understand the process that they used to make the choice in the first place. A good analogy is sports. If you wanted to know how well a person plays basketball, for example, you could look at statistics like shooting percentage or blocked shots. But, this is just an historical account of how well the individual played in the past - the numbers do not tell us much about how that individual plays basketball now.”
“We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.”
“We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love.”
“We never asked to bow. Who is he to say Red and Browns toiling to death is for the greater good? Who is he to say Pink children being harvested for rape, Obsidians and Grays for battle, is a necessity? How can he sit there and say that he alone knows what is best for me, for my family? It’s not his right”
Source: Golden Son