W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.”
“We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.”
“We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.”
“We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education.”
“We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.”
“We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".”
Source: Nectar #7: The Excellence of Sacrifice and Self-Effort
“We shall have world government whether you like it or not, by conquest or consent.”
“We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.”
“We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
“We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever.”
“We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.”
“We shall know how to live better, if we read the Holy Bible.”
“we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.”
“We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.”
Source: The Nine Tailors
“We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.”
“We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.”
“We shall live to die once more.”
“We shall live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest, and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.”
Source: Spark Notes Things Fall Apart
“We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.”
“We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.”
Source: Collected Works
“We shall march prospering,-not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,-not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,-while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.”
Source: Browning: Poems
“We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.”
“We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie”
Source: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
“We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.”
“We shall meet, but as strangers. It is the end of an era. A whole part of my life is torn away.”
Source: The Green Knight
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“We shall miss Leopardstar. I remember her from all the way back when I was an apprentice in ThunderClan. I always respected her, and, though her loyalty to RiverClan never wavered, she was a leader who understood the importance of keeping every Clan strong. She had the heart, courage, and strength of the mighty cat she was named for.”
Source: Fading Echoes
“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.”
Source: Aldo Leopold's Southwest
“We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.”
Source: Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold
“We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection”
“We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.”
“We shall never be at peace with ourselves until we yield with glad supremacy to our higher faculties.”
“We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.”
Source: Commentary on Romans
“We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.”
Source: The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.”
Source: Letters of John Calvin
“We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.”
“We shall never deny a guest even the most ridiculous request.”
“We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.”
Source: Morning and Evening
“We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.”
“We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“We shall never have a world without errors, but the world that we do have can be a beautiful place if we just had the willingness to correct our errors.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.”
“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”
“We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.”
“We shall never know whether thought is an imposture, and that is providential.
'The people is, in some cases, so enlightened that it is no longer indifferent to anything' (Montesquieu). That is indeed the end point: when there is no longer anything about which there is nothing to say.
Verdict of a Chinese writer on a monstrous tree that is at once a blackberry and a bamboo: 'any disorder appearing in nature is the sign of a hidden disorder in the administration of the Empire ... Order restored in nature clearly indicates satisfaction in heaven.' Our current blossoming of monsters and clones, hybrids and chimeras, our systematic mixing of mores and cultures, sexes and genes, cannot but attest to an irremediable disorder in the highest spheres of the Empire.”
Source: Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”
“We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.”
“We shall never meet, but there is something I want you to know. My time is not the same as your time. Our times are not the same. And do you know what that means? That means that time does not exist. Do you want me to repeat that? There is no time. There is a life and a death. There are people and animals. Our thoughts exist. And the world. The universe, too. But there is no time. You might as well take it easy. Do you feel better now? I feel better. This is going to work out. Have a nice day.”