W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We respect and honor very deeply those people who decide to serve their country in the military. But we certainly don't denigrate people who choose a different course, particularly when we have an all-volunteer army.”
“We respect and support the example set by President José Mujica of Uruguay in proposing legislation that regulates the cannabis market”
“We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.”
“We respect law, when the law respects our needs. Whenever legality clashes with morality, legality should be opposed and morality should be upheld.”
“We respect new friends more than the ones we know because we have yet to learn their flaws.”
“We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.”
“We respect revolutionaries, not because they always do the right things but because of their power to destroy and courage to rebuild.”
“We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest reconciliation of the conflicting interests and not through hatred and bloodshed. To follow that path means to enhance the moral power of the all-embracing idea of human solidarity.”
“We respect the freedom of all citizens. Young people should have fun, but there is no tolerance of drug abuse. Drugs have become a serious problem in Vietnam. This is why we have very strict penalties for any sort of drug dealing.”
“We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.”
“We respect women and don't insult them by saying all they care about is reproductive rights. All issues are women's issues.”
“We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.”
Source: Writing in restaurants
“We respond to healing grace by giving it away.”
“We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free.
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability!”
Source: The Complete Poems
“We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.
We feel, concieve, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free.
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but mutability!”
Source: Frankenstein
“We rest here while we can, but we hear the ocean calling in our dreams,
And we know by the morning, the wind will fill our sails to test the seams,
The calm is on the water and part of us would linger by the shore,
For ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
“We rest our case on the production numbers.”
“We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.”
“We’retryingtopushthroughthepausesandsithere.Andeach second that goes by proves how much we pathetically want the other person. But we aren’t saying that. It’s like, for example, a first date —both parties are already vulnerable because they showed up. But it’s never said. It's so funny. It’s like when people front so much that the room could literally be on fire and they’d be like “Are you hot?” “No, I’m fine, I’m actually kinda cold,” and then they burn to death, never admitting that their faces are literally melting.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--- those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties, --- even those for whom home holds no dear face, no familiar voice, --- even they have to meet the spirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in its valleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its tress--- a mute friend, judge, and inspirer.
Say what you like, to get its joy, to breathe its peace, to face its truth, one must return with a clear conscience.
All this may seem to you sheer sentimentalism; and indeed very few of us have the will or capacity to look consciously under the surface of familiar emotions.
There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.”
Source: Lord Jim
“We returned home, after these experiments, with the conviction that sailing flight was not the exclusive prerogative of birds.”
“We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death.”
“We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.”
Source: A Death in The Life
“We reveal most about ourselves when we speak about others.”
“We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.”
“We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.”
Source: The Importance of Music to Girls
“We revel in the laxness of the path we take.”
“We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.”
“We reverse engineer genius ideas, by creating our own chain of linked thoughts, starting with an idea and working our way back to what we imagine the original problem might have been.”
Source: CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field
“We reviewed the ways we had to bring customers: Method A, flying aerobatics at the edge of town. Method B, the parachute jump. Then we began experimenting with Method C. There is a principle that says if you lay out a lonely solitaire game in the center of the wilderness, someone will soon come along to look over your shoulder and tell you how to play your cards. This was the principle of Method C. We unrolled our sleeping bags and stretched out under the wing, completely uncaring.”
Source: Nothing By Chance
“We revile the Coyote because He is just like us.”
“We revisit those places where we experienced love, as pilgrims return to holy places, to be reminded, restored, and reaffirmed by them.”
“We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.”
“We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?”
“We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.”
“We- Rhys, Cass, and I- will occasionally remind each other that what we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength. And that the most unlikely person can alter the course of history.'
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'So we'll train, Feyre, until the last possible day. Because we never know if just one extra hour will make the difference.”
Source: A Court of Wings and Ruin
“We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of the world, rich and poor. We have not inherited this earth from our parents to do with it what we will. We have borrowed it from our children and we must be careful to use it in their interests as well as our own. Anyone who fails to recognise the basic validity of the proposition put in different ways by increasing numbers of writers, from Malthus to The Club of Rome, is either ignorant, a fool, or evil.”
“We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all.”
“We ride hard each day,” Draven barked. “We don’t dawdle or take breaks. We don’t stop to sightsee.”
“I’d never dream of asking you to sightsee,” Vesper said with an impressively straight face. “A man like you? Never.”
“Fine,” Drave said darkly. “Since you won’t leave when asked and as my only other option is to kill you, which I know she won’t like…”
“Your sister?”
“My companion,” Draven growled. “Since my companion would evidently prefer I didn’t kill you.”
“That would be very nice,” I said, as calmly as I could, my heart beating fast. “Especially when he’s so talented with breakfast.”
Were they really going to come to blows? I imagined exaggerating the story when I retold it to Galahad and saying two half-naked griddle-cake-scented, dazzlingly handsome men had been fighting over me.”
Source: Queen of Roses
“We ride on the wave of birth and death, and we are free from birth and death.”
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching : Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy and Liberation
“We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.”
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
“We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.”
“We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.”
“We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.”
Source: Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success
“We rijden naar de grenspost bij Rafah.
We horen onze namen afroepen en moeten daarna in de bus gaan zitten die door het niemandsland naar de grens met Egypte rijdt.
'Dag sido.'
'Dag engel.'
Ik besefte niet dat ik mijn opa heel lang niet terug zou zien.
Nu, achteraf, bedenk ik dat mijn sido dat wel besefte, maar dat hij het niet liet merken om het afscheid voor ons niet nog moeilijker te maken. Lieve sido ...
Ik kom zeker terug, dacht ik.”
Source: Malak
“We ring the bells and we raise the strain
We hang up garlands everywhere
And bid the tapers twinkle fair,
And feast and frolic - and then we go
Back to the same old lives again.”
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste! (…) How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we got two lives, one is the mockup, the other the finished version. But there’s only one and before you know it, your heart is worn out. Right now there’s sorrow. I don’t envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name