W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We possess only the happiness we able to understand.”
“We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.”
“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.”
“We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.”
Source: Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
“We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don't record the tantrums?and that's as it should be. But we shouldn't mistake that for reality. It's stagecraft.”
“We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude
“We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.”
“We practically always excuse things when we understand them”
“We practically own everything in the Philippines.”
“We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive, endeavor. It means to not haul up certain materials, or turn them over and over, to not work oneself up by repetitive thought, picture, or emotion.”
“We practice this philosophy of life to become stronger, learning to accept and use the suffering that life brings us. By the same token, we must also learn to accept happiness.”
Source: Made in Nirvana: Love, friendship, experiments with drugs, but above all India and Buddhism
“We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.”
“We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.”
“We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.”
“We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.”
“We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times”
“We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.”
“We praise their names / & the hands that write / Praise the mouth that speaks,”
“We praise times past, while we times present use;
Yet due the worship which to each we give.”
“We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.”
Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses
“We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us.”
“We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.”
“We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.”
“We pray everyday. We read the bible everyday, so everybody's happy.”
“We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.”
“We pray for no destruction, and for the forces of destruction not to take over.”
“We pray for others mainly or even only for ourselves.”
“We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all.”
“We pray for our sorrows to end and hope that our hearts will blend. Now I will step forward to realize this wish.”
Source: Kingdom Hearts II Vol. 2
“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”
Source: Life Together
“We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.”
“We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.”
“We pray, lead us not into Temptation, but it’s a request, not an order.
And that fact that we ask Him not to do it suggests that He’s capable of it, and from time to time He does”
Source: The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Eight
“We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.”
“We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.”
“We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom”
“We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.”
“We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.”
“We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.”
“We pray Thee, O Christ, to keep us under the spell of immortality. My we never again think and act as if Thou were dead. Let us more and more come to know Thee as a living Lord who hath promised to them that believe: "Because I live, ye shall live also." Help us to remember that we are praying to the Conqueror of Death, that we may no longer be afraid nor dismayed by the world's problems and threats, since Thou hast overcome the world. In Thy strong name, we ask for Thy living presence and Thy victorious power. Amen.”
“We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.”
“We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.”
Source: Clinically oriented anatomy
“We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides.”
Source: Daddy's
“We prayed these wars would end all wars --
In war we know is no romance."
(Done With Bonaparte)”
Source: Golden Heart
“We prayed until our faith passed into an exhaustion that numbed us to sleep.”
Source: Bless Me, Ultima
“We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not when it comes to gas. When it comes to gas, we need it cheap, and the president had better get it for us, or else, we don't care how.”
Source: When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
“We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.”
“We preach body confidence, but we live in a culture that doesn’t quite know what to do with a woman who actually likes the way she looks. It’s considered arrogant and even unfeminine. Think of the recent hit One Direction song that made the claim that a woman was beautiful precisely because she didn’t know she was beautiful. We need to question a culture that tells women they must be beautiful to be loved, but that they shouldn’t actually feel beautiful or we’ll find them conceited.”
Source: Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women