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 see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be.”
“We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.”
Source: The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances
“We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.”
Source: In my own words
“We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts”
“We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried in faith, the more I will have the opportunity of seeing God’s help and deliverance. Every fresh instance in which He helps and delivers me will increase my faith. The believer should not shrink from situations, positions, or circumstances in which his faith may be tried, but he should cheerfully embrace them as opportunities to see the hand of God stretched out in help and deliverance. Thus his faith will be strengthened.”
“We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.”
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre
“We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.”
“We should not stray from the darkness within us, that thing we call our Shadow. We should embrace it and learn from it. Only then will we truly understand ourselves. We must bring light to the darkness.”
Source: PSYCHOID: A Novel
“We should not submit ourselves to inaction simply to avoid mistakes; doing so wards off opportunities to strive to be the very best we can be.”
“We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.”
“We should not take our ‘Humanity’ for granted. We should love and respect things as if they were ourselves.”
“We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.”
“We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.”
“We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.”
“We should not think of poverty eradication as a matter of collecting money and giving it to the poor so much as of reforming the global rules that are disadvantaging the poor and making it impossible for them to fend for themselves.”
“We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.”
Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)
“We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.”
Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“We should not treat people as they treat us, we should treat them better.”
“We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.”
Source: Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
“We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.”
“We should not underestimate the enormity of the task which lies ahead. But little can be achieved without sound money. It is the bedrock of sound government.”
Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.”
Source: Donahue, my own story
“We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.”
“We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.”
“We should not view men with a cynical eye, seeing them only as meaningless products of chance, but, on the other hand, we should not go to the opposite extreme of seeing them romantically. To do either is to fail to understand who men really are--creatures made in the image of God but fallen.”
Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality
“We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; All the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we raise our voice.”
“We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access.”
“We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They are not real, they are not eternal.”
“We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.”
“We should note it is not illegal for the campaign to pay [Doanld] Trump owned businesses as long as they`re charging fair market rates. And while the optics are pretty stunning, we shouldn`t be surprised. Afterall, this is the guy that told Fortune magazine in 2000 it`s very possible I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”
“We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.”
Source: Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983
“We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“We should nurture the lower levels, and discipline the higher ones.”
“We should offer the American public less expensive insurance.”
“We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.”
“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.”
“We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.”
Source: Writings
“We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.”
“We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.”
“We should only fall in love with those who are worth waiting for.”
“We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.”
“We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.”
Source: Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
“We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.”
“We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.”
“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.”
Source: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval
“We should picture the instrument that carries our mental functioning as resembling a compound microscope or photographic apparatus.”
“We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.”
Source: Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices
“We should point out that if we feel like we've upset somebody and they're vitriolic, if people are actively pursuing some sort of complaint, then we've done our job.”