W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We should fill the syllabuses of schools with lessons about love and compassion.”
“We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.”
“We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.”
“We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.”
“We should find out as much as possible about someone before coming into conflict with him.”
Source: Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables
“We should find perfect existence through imperfect existence. The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, change. That everything changes is the basic truth of each existence. When we realize the everlasting truth of “everything changes” and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.”
“We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.”
“We should focus on the things that are bad that we can immediately control, because people are always going to be people.”
“We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.”
“We should focus our mind, body, heart, and soul on achieving happiness in accepting responsibilities and, of course, displaying enthusiasm in doing meaningful tasks.”
“We should follow every supply that runs into the particular lake below, going upstream in terms of we can. When we do not find Drakes’ path, or even an additional, we should come back straight along,look yourself upward an additional way to obtain foods,and then do a similar for the next water for the south.”
Source: Hill's Adventure
“We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.”
Source: An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror
“We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
“We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%”
“We should forgive and forget the faults of others. Anger is the enemy of every spiritual aspirant. Anger causes loss of power through every pore of our body. In circumstances when the mind is tempted to get angry, we should control ourselves and resolve firmly, 'No.' We can go to a secluded spot and chant our mantra. The mind will become quiet by itself.”
“We should forgive God . . . For making us too short. Fat. Poor.
We should forgive God our baldness. Our cystic fibrosis. Our juvenile leukemia. We should forgive God’s indifference, His leaving us behind: Us, God’s forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold.
God’s goldfish, ignored until we’re forced to eat our own shit off the bottom".”
Source: Haunted
“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
“We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.”
“We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.”
“We should fulfill the Minsk Protocol. The main reason for the sanctions is that Russia broke a taboo: It triggered a war in Europe. Crimea is a problem, but the most painful part of the sanctions is tied to the war in the Donbas. As soon as Russia takes real steps to prevent shots from being fired there, this part of the sanctions will be lifted.”
“We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.”
“We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.”
“We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.”
Source: Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith
“We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.”
“We should get into the way of appearing lively in religion, more by being lively in the service of God and our generation than by the liveliness and forwardness of our tongues, and making a business of proclaiming on the house tops with our mouths the holy and eminent acts and exercises of our own hearts. Christians that are intimate friends would talk together of their experiences and comforts in a manner better becoming Christian humility and modesty, and more to each other's profit: their tongues not running before, but rather going behind their hands and feet, after the prudent example of the blessed apostle, 2 Cor. xii. 6. Many occasions of spiritual pride would thus be cut off, and so a great door shut against the devil. A great many of the main stumbling-blocks against experimental and powerful religion would be removed, and religion would be declared and manifested in such a way that, instead of hardening spectators, and exceedingly promoting infidelity and atheism, it would, above all things, tend to convince men that there is a reality in religion, and greatly awaken them, and win them, by convincing their consciences of the importance and excellency of religion. Thus the light of professors would so shine before men, that others, seeing their good works, would glorify their Father which is in heaven.”
Source: The Religious Affections
“We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.”
“We should get rid of these restricting attitudes and system of beliefs in order to remove obstacles in our way to the achievements of our goals and revealing our potential”
“We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.”
“We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.”
“we should give no illusions about ourselves to not disappoint people in the future.”
“We should give ourselves the benefit of the doubt. We shouldn't shoot ourselves down before putting ourselves up there.”
Source: Master Adoption: Claim Your Authentic Power
“We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.”
“We should give the same respect to the lives of animals as we do to the lives of humans.”
“We should give to others what we intend to get. What enters into a circle will complete a full cycle and return to its origin in kind.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there.”
“We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.”
“We should go,” he said gruffly, his face inscrutable.
“Why?” Her heartbeat thundered. She gripped his arms tight to keep herself from twining her own about his neck.
He lowered his mouth to her ear, brushing it with a feather-soft kiss. “It isn’t safe.”
Her answering shiver had nothing to do with the cold. She had never stood so close to any man, had never fought the urge to press herself even closer.
“What could happen?” she whispered.
He cupped her face in his hands. “Anything.”
Source: The Viscount's Christmas Temptation
“We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.”
“We should go straight west. The prophecy said west."
"Oh, like your tracking skills are better?" Thalia growled.
Zoe stepped toward her. "You challenge my skills, you scullion? You know nothing of being a Hunter!"
"Oh, scullion. You're calling me a scullion? What the heck is a scullion?”
Source: The Titan’s Curse
“We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.”
Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works
“We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.”
“We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.”
Source: Siluria: the history of the oldest known rocks containing organic remains
“We should have a banquet on the day haters die.”
“We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.”
“We should have a conversation when we hang up.”
“We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.”
“We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.”
Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: An analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of ideas .... A defense of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning personal identity .... A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentleman. Elements of natural philosophy. A new method of a common place book. Extracted from the author's works. With a life of the author
“We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.”