W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We owe it to our kids to inform them and train them how to think, not what to think.”
“We owe it to our past futile sacrifices to continue making further futile sacrifices.”
“We owe it to our troops to let them sleep in their own beds, wake up in the morning, have a delicious breakfast, and drive to war.”
“We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.”
“We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.”
“We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.”
“We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.”
“We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.”
“We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.”
Source: Last Essays
“We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.”
“We owe our existence to imperfection. Let’s not try too hard to be perfect in a far from perfect universe.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.”
Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
“We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.”
“We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?”
“We owe our loyalty to each other and to our children's children, not to party politics.”
“We owe our success more to our enemies than to our friends. Friends may not provide the unfiltered feedback that forces you to improve yourself, but enemies do.”
“We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.”
“We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.”
“We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.”
“We owe our very lives to the soil, and, as William Bryant Logan said, “the bodies we give it back are not payment enough.” Though, presumably, they are a start.”
Source: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
“We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.”
“We owe some of our family members respect, but do not owe any of them love.”
“We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.”
“We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.”
“We owe something to the government to grow up in this great country. I'm tired of hearing people in the private sector talk like they don't owe the government anything. We do. This is a great country because we all pay into it. It's about time we all pay into it. ... If we paid the same amount of taxes we paid when Bill Clinton was president, I would be a happy guy, and the budget would be closer to balanced. You cannot give away money, whether you give it to rich or poor people. That's what George Bush did -- excuse me, trillions of dollars. You can't do that.”
“We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.”
“We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners, in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.”
“We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have never witnessed or acknowledged. Now knowing better, we can act better, and acting better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children, and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.”
Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
“We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation.”
Source: Epistemological Problems of Economics
“We owe the world an encounter with God”
Source: Amazed by the Power of God
“We owe them [animals] a decent life and a decent death, and their lives should be as low-stress as possible. That's my job. I wish animals could have more than just a low-stress life and a quick, painless death. I wish animals could have a good life, too, with something useful to do. People were animals, too, once, and when we turned into human beings we gave something up. Being close to animals brings some of it back.”
“We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free.”
Source: Ronald Reagan
“We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.”
“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.”
“We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures”
Source: The Rambler
“We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.”
Source: Compromises
“We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.”
“We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.”
“We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.”
Source: all the year round
“We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.”
“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.”
“We own our own lives and live regardless of frauds. (You should too.)”
“We own ourselves. This is the core of a libertarian theory of rights. But on this theory, while we are at liberty to kill ourselves (regardless of the consequences of others), we are not allowed to kill others, not even if this means that there we be fewer murders in the future, totally speaking.”
“We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.”
Source: Running in the Family
“We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.”
“We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.”
“We own the Federal Reserve. There is this misconception that the Federal Reserve is some private entity. But if I might give an analogy here, we - U.S. taxpayers - own all the stock in the Federal Reserve.”
“We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.”