W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We should not have a government program that determines if you're going to pull the plug on grandma.”
“We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.”
“We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.”
“We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.”
“We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.”
“We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.”
Source: Enchiridion
“We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.”
“We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player.”
“We should not honor the wish of the dead at the expense of those who are still living.”
“We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.”
“We should not judge by appearances,” thought Stella. “Time shows us who we can trust. Then, folks show us their true natures. There’s nothing worse than false friends who lead us by the hand into all kinds of dangers.
They have two sides—one light, one dark. Nothing’s unusual about that. But false friends take us from our true paths. I’d rather have honest enemies or rivals. They challenge us and shape us. They help us more than they know. They give us courage—something to go against.”
Source: The Girl in The Red Cape
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
“We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural environments, in order to enlarge wild populations and stanch the hemorrhaging of biological wealth. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.”
“We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life?”
“We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while at the same time explaining clearly the mistakes he made.”
“We should not let grass grow on the path of friendship.”
“We should not let negative influences get to us.”
“We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.”
“We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.”
“We should not let the family fall apart.
We should not accept an evil we can change.
We would stand up against it, would we not?
Yes. We should. We would be heroes, even.”
Source: We Were Liars
“We should not live one more day ignoring the sh** that suffocates and strangles US keeping US imprisoned in our own communities.”
“We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.”
“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”
“We should not lose ourselves in vainglorious sohemes for changing human nature all over the planet. Rather, we should learn to view ourselves with a sense of proportion and Christian humility before the enormous complexity of the world in which it has been given us to live.”
“We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment.”
Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
“We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.”
Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic
“We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.”
“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
“We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.”
Source: Indira Gandhi speaks on democracy, socialism, and Third World nonalignment
“We should not only attend church but must have a ministry in the church as well”
“We should not only survive but strive.”
“We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?”
“We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.”
“We should not overestimate the extent of the diffusion of ownership that has taken place over the past two centuries: the egalitarian ownership society—or even, more modestly, a society in which the poorest half of the population owns more than a token share of the wealth—has yet to be invented.”
Source: Capital and Ideology
“We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
“We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.”
Source: Declaration of conscience
“We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.”
“We should not pour muck on ourselves.”
“We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“We should not pray for the sky to be our limit, for we are limitless.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.”
“We should not prioritize on the basis of project profitability, but rather on how this profitability is affected by delay.”
Source: The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
“We should not rely on our feelings; we had to walk by faith and not by sight. If we preserve in the Lord, we always succeed.”
“We should not ridicule what we do not yet understand.”
Source: Random Cosmos
“We should not rule out the possibility that Trump's diplomacy could deescalate Middle East strife and international tensions, give the US a lower global profile and enable a more balanced world order to emerge, doing most of its damage here at home, through moves to implement his vision of nativist nationalism.”
“We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.”
“We should not say how's business, but where is business”
“We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels: 1845-48
“We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.”
Source: The Goblins of Eros