W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We shall not surrender.”
“We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.”
Source: History as the Story of Liberty
“We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.”
“We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.”
“We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.”
“We shall now seek that which we shall not find”
Source: Le morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.”
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
“We shall perish by guile just as we slew.”
“We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies.”
“We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.”
“We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.”
“We shall progress inch by inch.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.”
“We shall quench our thirst, for we shall drink deep at the bubbling fountain of Wisdom.”
“We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.”
“We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.”
“We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.”
“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.”
“We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.”
“We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.”
Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.”
Source: Daily readings
“We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)
“We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.”
Source: Sermons
“We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.”
Source: THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_
“We shall see that magic does not deny truth, it positively embraces truth as a crutch to assist belief, but it equall embraces falsehood - and that makes it unacceptable in scientific culture. Magic embraces goodness, but it also embraces evil - and that makes it disreputable in religious eyes. Magic embraces beauty and it also embraces ugliness - and that can make it seem kitsch or 'cheesy' in artistic eyes.”
Source: My Years of Magical Thinking
“We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.”
Source: A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
“We shall seek debate without division or rancour.”
“We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.”
“We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.”
“We shall some day be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people believe that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.”
Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words
“We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.”
Source: Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909
“We shall soon have to build heavily insulated cloisters where neither radio waves nor newspapers can come, in which ignorance of all politics will be guarded and cultivated. Speed, numbers, effects of surprise, contrast, repetition, size novelty, and credulity will be despised there. And thither, on certain days, visitors will come, to look through the iron bars at a few specimens of free men.”
Source: Regards sur le monde actuel et autres essais
“We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.”
“We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.”
“We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.”
“We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.”
“We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.”
“We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return”
“We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!”
“We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness...Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family.”
“We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.”
Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.”
“We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability.”
“We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country .... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”
Source: The Jews' State: A Critical English Translation
“We shall understand that when waiting is rightly comprehended, it is a deliciousness that is already indeed a wink of bliss.”
Source: Come, Lord Jesus: Meditations on the Art of Waiting